I wish you many days of fortune and days of brave too.
It is the hardest thing in life to leave loved ones (love your description of the music on the radio moment).
good luck and I know you will do well in your new abode/nest.
x Loulou
Thanks LouLou. x
I know exactly how you feel because I felt like that when we moved countries – heart wrenching but exciting.
So glad to hear you are all settling into your new home !
Love, hugs and positive energy !
Me
Yeah, it’s such a contrast of emotions, isn’t it. xx
Hi Chantelle,
I cried when I read this post!! I am trying to find a bit of bravery in myself to do a similar thing & go overseas for a few months. My fear of flying & the fact that I’ve never set foot out of the state alone & not once left the country is keeping hesitation at the forefront right now!
Good on you & your family for taking a leap in a different direction! I love it!!
Best wishes for this new adventure & everything that it brings you!
Ash
xo
Hey Ash. I hope you can overcome your fear. I was afraid of flying long distance too, but it actually is great in those big planes. I hope you can feel the fear and do it anyway. Wonderful adventures await you! x
Packing up and leaving was definately the hardest thing I have ever done, but also the easiest decision! I met the love of my life in France whilst doing a snowboarding season when I met my Australian handsome curly headed dudeman. That was nearly 4 years ago. I moved 10600miles to be with him. I said my goodbye’s to my mother, my 3 sisters, 5 brothers and lots of beautiful neice and nephews and friends…that was extremly hard, but Adam made it that much easier, I love Australia, and it’s home. It feels like home. I feel very humble here. Thank you Adam. You are my fourtune!!! I wish for nothing else. I”m very happy!!!
Oh this is awesome! Congratulations on creating an amazing life!
What a a great post! I’ve identified with so much of what you’ve said. It’s comforting for me, in a small way, that no matter where you live in this world, people often share similar experiences.
For me personally, moving away from a place that felt so lovely and comforting, in the beginning seemed like such a pleasant and adventurous idea. And then of course, during my own 12 hour drive (11.5, to be exact), I started to have some doubts. Was I making the right choice? How would I adjust? Would I be homesick? How would I deal with not being down the road from my parents and sister? And for me, the worst thing that I did in the very beginning, was to compare my old city to my current one. The grass did feel a bit greener.
I’m no sage on this subject, but I have learned that not comparing, but instead embracing the adventure is really key to feeling extremely satisfied with your new surroundings. You’re going to love the adventure. And of course, sharing all of this with your family will make home not just a certain place, but in your heart as well.
I went to the movies last night to see the new Pixar animation ‘Brave’. You are by far a very brave and courageous woman (and your man). It sounds like an amazing life change to one our most beautiful places on the east coast.
Take it all in!
Enjoy!
Oh I want to watch that. I hear it’s a bit scary for kids though, is it? x
no I don’t think so….I don’t have kids of my own though so my judgement may not be great. There were young kids in the cinema who were giggling and liked it! 🙂
It’s so hard saying goodbye to a home, but the memories you made there will forever remain in your mind and your heart, not in those four walls.
I hope for many adventures in my life, to avoid monotony and make the most of what life has to offer 🙂
I know how you feel! When we moved to our new apartment a few years back, i was extremely wary because of the questionable neighbourhood. But people welcomes us with open arms. And even though i loved our last apartment, right by a lake, now the new one is home. This is where i got pregnant, this is where i brought our beautiful babyboy home, and this apartment is where my heart is right now. I think home is where the heart is.
Home IS where the heart is. Definitely. x
Oh how wonderful.
I hope fortune favours the brave we’re about to do something brave and I hope it works out for the best.
Yay for Lacey sleeping and yay for your new life.
you are inspiring me! 😉 thankyou!
While my last move was less than 5km from where I used to live, I know a little of how you feel. We moved into our own home 5 years ago and I had really mixed emotions about it all. I was so excited to be out of the unit we lived in and into our own place where we could do whatever we wanted to it, yet that thought was petrifying at the same time. If anything goes wrong, we have to deal with it! I remember being thrilled to get the keys and walking into the house was wonderful, but that night I was overwhelmed with worries about all the “what if”s. I worked out pretty quickly that no matter what happened, this was our place and we’d deal with it the best we could. Once our stuff arrived and we were unpacked I knew that we’d be here for a very long time! If we ever move away I know I’ll be an emotional wreck – since being here we got married and had our two beautiful daughters 🙂
I felt the same {overwhelmed} when we arrived at the house, but as soon as everything was in the house – it felt like home. x
What a beautifully written post, so glad I read it this morning. My daughter & only child has been struggling with being brave for the past months. She knows in her heart that our hometown no longer holds opportunity for her , she is not happy or content and she has begun to feel unsafe
(Michigan-crime is very high in the city here) but her heart refuses to let go. She is 26 yrs. with no commitments here except a crappy waitressing job , a sm group of friends who are dragging her down and a tiny apt. She has a place to stay in her new locale and a small bit of family , so they are welcoming her with open arms and I could rest , knowing that she will not be in a strange land (Flordia) of random people.I encourage her to take the chance, even as it breaks my heart to do so. I will miss her horribly but I know that if she doesn’t at least try, one day when she is married with children and a dull job, she will have regrets and being a mother means wishing the best for your children even when your heart is aching. The older you get the harder it is to take a chance and make a big change.
She is still wavering.
Congratulations on taking the leap and being brave. May good fortune always be yours…wherever you choose to live.
I hope she makes the big leap! x
You made me cry x
Brave.
Bold.
Beautiful.
There’s a world of new amazingness waiting for you and you’ve reached out and taken it. Only good things can come of that. Enjoy it.
Oh thank you Julie. Thanks for holding my hand through a lot of it. x
And that someone was me 🙂
Last year we had a lot of decisions to make, big ones. So many sleepless nights, soul searching, questioning…am I doing the right thing, making the right decisions, living our best life? Finally, finally, we decided to go, not to stay and wonder what if, to throw all of what we thought we wanted away and take a chance. I was scared, so scared, and a plastered ‘fortune favours the brave’ on my full length mirror in our bedroom. It became my mantra.
Now here we are, homeless nomads on our adventure of self discovery. I know now that this journey is going to make our destination so much sweeter, in the meantime I’ll enjoy the ride. And being brave.
Thank you for those words. They meant so much to me over the past week and a bit! x
I wish you and all your family a lifetime of health and happiness. You are brave and I am sure fortune will be yours in a way that will increase your happiness and your love of family and friends.
Hi chantelle moving countries and states was by far the hardest thing we ever did but buying our home in perth and seeing liam explore it for the first time and laugh with happiness made it all worthwhile. Good luck and best wishes on this new phase x
Chantelle – It’s is completely BRAVE of you. and your family.
I just wish for happiness, and children, a family and complete dedication from the one I love *smiles*
I love that phrase and you posting this has come at the right time for me and my decisions. A good healthy happy sign for me I will take it as.
x
Oh honey, I suck at any goodbyes too! The worst part of change by far. What a life you’re creating for your family….and….Lacey is sleeping? Man, all you had to do was move to the country? 🙂 Wishing you a super happy, love filled home. xxxxx
It’s so hard saying goodbye I have had to do this twice. Once when my parents moved cross country and the 2nd time when I moved cross country to live near them. I am not looking forward to the next move (which will hopefully be our last) but I think of it this way. Every change in your life is a new adventure waiting to be explored and so explore I will until i can’t anymore.
Hi Chantelle, Moving is one of the hardest and bravest things we do in our life (well it was for me) at the age of 23 I left England with my big sis and we moved to Canada to live with our Father that we hardly knew, we left our mother and much younger brother and all our amazing friends behind and to make it even harder we lived in Quebec and we had to learn French!! (not an easy task at such an age) it has been 17 years now that we have lived here, big sis is married and she moved to Toronto and I met the love of my life and we bought our first home 2 years ago, best feeling in the world. We then decided that we wanted to move to Toronto too and we sold out house in April and once again we left our family and all our amazing friends behind, I also said goodbye to the house and shed tears, we packed up the cat and dog and set off on our 7 hr drive to our new life. This is our first month here and we love it, what makes it easier is Skype 🙂 Good luck to you and your wonderful family, your journey is just beginning.
xx
Good luck with settling in at your new home. I have just recently moved and am finding the transition slightly hard. I went back to the old place to collect some of my things at the weekend and it put me in a strange mood, at least for the past couple of days. It can be heard, but it’ll be worth it in the end.
I moved overseas for 18 months when I was 19, and I found coming home was far harder than the leaving. I had changed during that time but the people who welcomed me back expected me to be the same person I’d been when I’d left – like I’d been on pause while out of their view. I needed all the bravery I could muster then to forge a new life inside that old skin.
At the moment I’m trying to find some courage for my baby boy’s first day of childcare tomorrow.
How was it? Was it OK? x
He was fine and charmed all the ladies. But he didn’t sleep so well while he was there so was really out of sorts in the afternoon. I felt like I was missing a limb the whole morning. He’s there again now and I’m coming to realise being brave might have to be a long term thing when you have kids rather than just being brave here and now for this single event.
It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and you’re so brave. It’s hard! But it gets better, and it’s really good for both of you. Lacey has been sad a bit lately because she wants to go to school {and I can’t get her into one!}. Thinking of you today. x
That is one very interesting post and something that I can relate to very well. It is so heartbreaking to pack and move and even thought I had been doing that all my young live up to 6 years ago, I can never stop crying and feeling lost. You are being brave to make the move and I believe the pot of gold is wating for you at the end of the rainbow. Wishing you lots of new friends, new discoveries, new adventures and new fortunes.
If there is anything I wish for right now is to be grateful for my health, wealth and happiness for me, ny husband and my daughter and a much more financially stable life.
“I made them little ‘from home’ packs, with personalised CDs, Australian goodies and little letters. They only went for a week”
It’s a little overboard to have separation anxiety when someone goes away for a week. Also a bit dramatic.
your comment is a little judgemental and negative, based on how well/how little you may know the blogger. Why not be a little more positive? I’ve felt that way before with my own family: sweetheart going away on a trip, daughter going to camp, etc.
If you never felt that, great, but don’t put down another for their feelings, and having the courage to put it out for others to scrutinize.
Thanks Anon. Are you a doctor? It’s what I felt. And I shared it. Yes, dramatic. But we were a little family from the country who’d never traveled.
Geez, Anon. Harsh, much?
Have you never missed someone terribly?
Leave Chantelle alone. It’s her blog for crying out loud. If anyone is allowed to have a space to be dramatic, emotional, etc, her own blog is the place.
I have done similar things to the ‘home packs’ plenty of times in the past. It’s something my family & friends love me doing & I love when I have recieved the same. It takes a very special person to create a gift like this & also a very special person to appreciate it.
The last 3 years have brought extraordinary changes for myself and my 3 adult “kids”, but mostly for my eldest daughter who followed a fabulous job offer to the Gold Coast in Oz from home here in the USA. Her move understandably rocked our entire closeknit family, but as it’s proved to bring her much happiness as well as a lucrative career move, we’re all toughing it out.
On the flip side, I’ve moved from a hateful desert climate 2500 miles to the loving embrace of a beach side community and my other daughter and grandchildren. Hopefully this is my fortune for the remainder of my life. 🙂
Best of luck in yours Chantelle.
Hi Chantelle,
God Bless You and your family in your new adventure! I like to think of myself as a Gypsy Artist…but in fact, have been born and raised in the same city. The farthest I’ve traveled outside the country was to Mexico twice, and Canada (BC) twice; each time on mission trips. All of my immediate family members have been abroad, and have passports to go anywhere they could desire. What happened to me?!
My mom says I’m a ‘nester’–that I love to be at home, in my little purple house, among my things. sad-really, because I can imagine the whitewashed hillside cottages of Greece against the blue Aegean; the busy canals of Venice, the exquisitely Beautiful Eiffel Tower…
Finances and bad marriages have held me back…now I’m trying to surge ahead into my future, and will set goals for these adventures. I’ve said it! It’s out in the Universe!!
You ARE Brave and Courageous! We in ‘blogland’ cheer you on, because we all grow and dream together, and one person’s victory becomes victory and encouragement for all!
HOORAY FOR CHANTELLE!
Your writing always brings me to tears – I love that! It IS such a brave move – to a better life for you and your family. It’s so hard being apart from family and friends, but visiting and holidays are always so much more special because of this! Enjoy your new home x
Awww! x
Balanced and simplified sounds like the most wonderful fortune Chantelle – I have no doubt that after a few months you will wonder why you never did it sooner. The hardest part is just making that decision! Can’t wait to continue watching the journey to your new life and I am sure you will have us all convinced we should do the same! Leanne x
Fortune DOES favour the Brave~! And I hope I am just as brave when my turn comes as I struggle to ‘leave’ – to walk away from all I know and love…yet I know a new world beckons…there is better beyond this… And there are planes and trains and auto-mobiles and I can always come ‘home’ and visit…and maybe one day…this won’t be HOME anymore…
When we moved to the Northern Rivers in 2008 we left a home in Canberra we’d lived in since 1980! It hurt on so many levels I can’t count them all lol. But then our new life began – new things discovered each day, new friends to be made, so much to learn and see. It’s a magic environment here, and wonderful for kids as well as grownups. Have fun making your own discoveries but feel free to drop me a line if I can help with anything 🙂
Jeni
Northern Rivers Dreaming
Thanks Jeni! x
Moving is exciting but is also scary! But the best thing is a new area to explore, a new place to make your own, more fresh air and lots of new people to meet 🙂
Being Brave rocks!
Moving is a tough thing. My dad got really sick a few years back and my parents had to move back to Ireland. Even though I knew it was the right thing it was the hardest goodbye I have ever had to make. You should be very proud of yourself. It takes a lot of guts to move and it sounds like you are doing it wonderfully 🙂
We moved from the bright lights of the Gold Coast (complete with my parents / brother) 900km WEST – yes WEST and to a whole new way of life! SKYPE was my saviour; to see family and friends and chat was wonderful but over the last 6 months I have also found that I have grown to see my little family in a different way and I’ve begun to appreciate that although “family” may include all the many people in your life who are special, it’s my husband and children that I see now as MY family and MY “home” in a way I never saw before when I had the security of everyone and everything that I knew before … So, I guess I’m saying … EMBRACE the change , ENJOY the new experiences and LOVE the fact that your “little” family is right there with you throughout it all!!
Wishing you all the best Chantelle!
Best wishes to you…and great new “home” online. Cheers!
I thought I was the only one who listened to ‘love song dedications’ when I’m a little down. The fact that Lacey is now sleeping may be a sign that this will be a great thing for your family.
I love it for sentimental moments. Shall miss it, unless there is one just like it up here? Doubt it! x
Elizabeth Saxe Coburg-Gotha is an evil woman, why do we slave away at work our whole lives for money with her face on
Hello Chantelle,
I wish you many days of fortune and days of brave too.
It is the hardest thing in life to leave loved ones (love your description of the music on the radio moment).
good luck and I know you will do well in your new abode/nest.
x Loulou
Thanks LouLou. x
I know exactly how you feel because I felt like that when we moved countries – heart wrenching but exciting.
So glad to hear you are all settling into your new home !
Love, hugs and positive energy !
Me
Yeah, it’s such a contrast of emotions, isn’t it. xx
Hi Chantelle,
I cried when I read this post!! I am trying to find a bit of bravery in myself to do a similar thing & go overseas for a few months. My fear of flying & the fact that I’ve never set foot out of the state alone & not once left the country is keeping hesitation at the forefront right now!
Good on you & your family for taking a leap in a different direction! I love it!!
Best wishes for this new adventure & everything that it brings you!
Ash
xo
Hey Ash. I hope you can overcome your fear. I was afraid of flying long distance too, but it actually is great in those big planes. I hope you can feel the fear and do it anyway. Wonderful adventures await you! x
Packing up and leaving was definately the hardest thing I have ever done, but also the easiest decision! I met the love of my life in France whilst doing a snowboarding season when I met my Australian handsome curly headed dudeman. That was nearly 4 years ago. I moved 10600miles to be with him. I said my goodbye’s to my mother, my 3 sisters, 5 brothers and lots of beautiful neice and nephews and friends…that was extremly hard, but Adam made it that much easier, I love Australia, and it’s home. It feels like home. I feel very humble here. Thank you Adam. You are my fourtune!!! I wish for nothing else. I”m very happy!!!
Oh this is awesome! Congratulations on creating an amazing life!
What a a great post! I’ve identified with so much of what you’ve said. It’s comforting for me, in a small way, that no matter where you live in this world, people often share similar experiences.
For me personally, moving away from a place that felt so lovely and comforting, in the beginning seemed like such a pleasant and adventurous idea. And then of course, during my own 12 hour drive (11.5, to be exact), I started to have some doubts. Was I making the right choice? How would I adjust? Would I be homesick? How would I deal with not being down the road from my parents and sister? And for me, the worst thing that I did in the very beginning, was to compare my old city to my current one. The grass did feel a bit greener.
I’m no sage on this subject, but I have learned that not comparing, but instead embracing the adventure is really key to feeling extremely satisfied with your new surroundings. You’re going to love the adventure. And of course, sharing all of this with your family will make home not just a certain place, but in your heart as well.
I went to the movies last night to see the new Pixar animation ‘Brave’. You are by far a very brave and courageous woman (and your man). It sounds like an amazing life change to one our most beautiful places on the east coast.
Take it all in!
Enjoy!
Oh I want to watch that. I hear it’s a bit scary for kids though, is it? x
no I don’t think so….I don’t have kids of my own though so my judgement may not be great. There were young kids in the cinema who were giggling and liked it! 🙂
It’s so hard saying goodbye to a home, but the memories you made there will forever remain in your mind and your heart, not in those four walls.
I hope for many adventures in my life, to avoid monotony and make the most of what life has to offer 🙂
I know how you feel! When we moved to our new apartment a few years back, i was extremely wary because of the questionable neighbourhood. But people welcomes us with open arms. And even though i loved our last apartment, right by a lake, now the new one is home. This is where i got pregnant, this is where i brought our beautiful babyboy home, and this apartment is where my heart is right now. I think home is where the heart is.
Home IS where the heart is. Definitely. x
Oh how wonderful.
I hope fortune favours the brave we’re about to do something brave and I hope it works out for the best.
Yay for Lacey sleeping and yay for your new life.
you are inspiring me! 😉 thankyou!
While my last move was less than 5km from where I used to live, I know a little of how you feel. We moved into our own home 5 years ago and I had really mixed emotions about it all. I was so excited to be out of the unit we lived in and into our own place where we could do whatever we wanted to it, yet that thought was petrifying at the same time. If anything goes wrong, we have to deal with it! I remember being thrilled to get the keys and walking into the house was wonderful, but that night I was overwhelmed with worries about all the “what if”s. I worked out pretty quickly that no matter what happened, this was our place and we’d deal with it the best we could. Once our stuff arrived and we were unpacked I knew that we’d be here for a very long time! If we ever move away I know I’ll be an emotional wreck – since being here we got married and had our two beautiful daughters 🙂
I felt the same {overwhelmed} when we arrived at the house, but as soon as everything was in the house – it felt like home. x
What a beautifully written post, so glad I read it this morning. My daughter & only child has been struggling with being brave for the past months. She knows in her heart that our hometown no longer holds opportunity for her , she is not happy or content and she has begun to feel unsafe
(Michigan-crime is very high in the city here) but her heart refuses to let go. She is 26 yrs. with no commitments here except a crappy waitressing job , a sm group of friends who are dragging her down and a tiny apt. She has a place to stay in her new locale and a small bit of family , so they are welcoming her with open arms and I could rest , knowing that she will not be in a strange land (Flordia) of random people.I encourage her to take the chance, even as it breaks my heart to do so. I will miss her horribly but I know that if she doesn’t at least try, one day when she is married with children and a dull job, she will have regrets and being a mother means wishing the best for your children even when your heart is aching. The older you get the harder it is to take a chance and make a big change.
She is still wavering.
Congratulations on taking the leap and being brave. May good fortune always be yours…wherever you choose to live.
I hope she makes the big leap! x
You made me cry x
Brave.
Bold.
Beautiful.
There’s a world of new amazingness waiting for you and you’ve reached out and taken it. Only good things can come of that. Enjoy it.
Oh thank you Julie. Thanks for holding my hand through a lot of it. x
And that someone was me 🙂
Last year we had a lot of decisions to make, big ones. So many sleepless nights, soul searching, questioning…am I doing the right thing, making the right decisions, living our best life? Finally, finally, we decided to go, not to stay and wonder what if, to throw all of what we thought we wanted away and take a chance. I was scared, so scared, and a plastered ‘fortune favours the brave’ on my full length mirror in our bedroom. It became my mantra.
Now here we are, homeless nomads on our adventure of self discovery. I know now that this journey is going to make our destination so much sweeter, in the meantime I’ll enjoy the ride. And being brave.
Thank you for those words. They meant so much to me over the past week and a bit! x
I wish you and all your family a lifetime of health and happiness. You are brave and I am sure fortune will be yours in a way that will increase your happiness and your love of family and friends.
Hi chantelle moving countries and states was by far the hardest thing we ever did but buying our home in perth and seeing liam explore it for the first time and laugh with happiness made it all worthwhile. Good luck and best wishes on this new phase x
Chantelle – It’s is completely BRAVE of you. and your family.
I just wish for happiness, and children, a family and complete dedication from the one I love *smiles*
I love that phrase and you posting this has come at the right time for me and my decisions. A good healthy happy sign for me I will take it as.
x
Oh honey, I suck at any goodbyes too! The worst part of change by far. What a life you’re creating for your family….and….Lacey is sleeping? Man, all you had to do was move to the country? 🙂 Wishing you a super happy, love filled home. xxxxx
It’s so hard saying goodbye I have had to do this twice. Once when my parents moved cross country and the 2nd time when I moved cross country to live near them. I am not looking forward to the next move (which will hopefully be our last) but I think of it this way. Every change in your life is a new adventure waiting to be explored and so explore I will until i can’t anymore.
Hi Chantelle, Moving is one of the hardest and bravest things we do in our life (well it was for me) at the age of 23 I left England with my big sis and we moved to Canada to live with our Father that we hardly knew, we left our mother and much younger brother and all our amazing friends behind and to make it even harder we lived in Quebec and we had to learn French!! (not an easy task at such an age) it has been 17 years now that we have lived here, big sis is married and she moved to Toronto and I met the love of my life and we bought our first home 2 years ago, best feeling in the world. We then decided that we wanted to move to Toronto too and we sold out house in April and once again we left our family and all our amazing friends behind, I also said goodbye to the house and shed tears, we packed up the cat and dog and set off on our 7 hr drive to our new life. This is our first month here and we love it, what makes it easier is Skype 🙂 Good luck to you and your wonderful family, your journey is just beginning.
xx
Good luck with settling in at your new home. I have just recently moved and am finding the transition slightly hard. I went back to the old place to collect some of my things at the weekend and it put me in a strange mood, at least for the past couple of days. It can be heard, but it’ll be worth it in the end.
I moved overseas for 18 months when I was 19, and I found coming home was far harder than the leaving. I had changed during that time but the people who welcomed me back expected me to be the same person I’d been when I’d left – like I’d been on pause while out of their view. I needed all the bravery I could muster then to forge a new life inside that old skin.
At the moment I’m trying to find some courage for my baby boy’s first day of childcare tomorrow.
How was it? Was it OK? x
He was fine and charmed all the ladies. But he didn’t sleep so well while he was there so was really out of sorts in the afternoon. I felt like I was missing a limb the whole morning. He’s there again now and I’m coming to realise being brave might have to be a long term thing when you have kids rather than just being brave here and now for this single event.
It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and you’re so brave. It’s hard! But it gets better, and it’s really good for both of you. Lacey has been sad a bit lately because she wants to go to school {and I can’t get her into one!}. Thinking of you today. x
That is one very interesting post and something that I can relate to very well. It is so heartbreaking to pack and move and even thought I had been doing that all my young live up to 6 years ago, I can never stop crying and feeling lost. You are being brave to make the move and I believe the pot of gold is wating for you at the end of the rainbow. Wishing you lots of new friends, new discoveries, new adventures and new fortunes.
If there is anything I wish for right now is to be grateful for my health, wealth and happiness for me, ny husband and my daughter and a much more financially stable life.
“I made them little ‘from home’ packs, with personalised CDs, Australian goodies and little letters. They only went for a week”
It’s a little overboard to have separation anxiety when someone goes away for a week. Also a bit dramatic.
your comment is a little judgemental and negative, based on how well/how little you may know the blogger. Why not be a little more positive? I’ve felt that way before with my own family: sweetheart going away on a trip, daughter going to camp, etc.
If you never felt that, great, but don’t put down another for their feelings, and having the courage to put it out for others to scrutinize.
Thanks Anon. Are you a doctor? It’s what I felt. And I shared it. Yes, dramatic. But we were a little family from the country who’d never traveled.
Geez, Anon. Harsh, much?
Have you never missed someone terribly?
Leave Chantelle alone. It’s her blog for crying out loud. If anyone is allowed to have a space to be dramatic, emotional, etc, her own blog is the place.
I have done similar things to the ‘home packs’ plenty of times in the past. It’s something my family & friends love me doing & I love when I have recieved the same. It takes a very special person to create a gift like this & also a very special person to appreciate it.
The last 3 years have brought extraordinary changes for myself and my 3 adult “kids”, but mostly for my eldest daughter who followed a fabulous job offer to the Gold Coast in Oz from home here in the USA. Her move understandably rocked our entire closeknit family, but as it’s proved to bring her much happiness as well as a lucrative career move, we’re all toughing it out.
On the flip side, I’ve moved from a hateful desert climate 2500 miles to the loving embrace of a beach side community and my other daughter and grandchildren. Hopefully this is my fortune for the remainder of my life. 🙂
Best of luck in yours Chantelle.
Hi Chantelle,
God Bless You and your family in your new adventure! I like to think of myself as a Gypsy Artist…but in fact, have been born and raised in the same city. The farthest I’ve traveled outside the country was to Mexico twice, and Canada (BC) twice; each time on mission trips. All of my immediate family members have been abroad, and have passports to go anywhere they could desire. What happened to me?!
My mom says I’m a ‘nester’–that I love to be at home, in my little purple house, among my things. sad-really, because I can imagine the whitewashed hillside cottages of Greece against the blue Aegean; the busy canals of Venice, the exquisitely Beautiful Eiffel Tower…
Finances and bad marriages have held me back…now I’m trying to surge ahead into my future, and will set goals for these adventures. I’ve said it! It’s out in the Universe!!
You ARE Brave and Courageous! We in ‘blogland’ cheer you on, because we all grow and dream together, and one person’s victory becomes victory and encouragement for all!
HOORAY FOR CHANTELLE!
Your writing always brings me to tears – I love that! It IS such a brave move – to a better life for you and your family. It’s so hard being apart from family and friends, but visiting and holidays are always so much more special because of this! Enjoy your new home x
Awww! x
Balanced and simplified sounds like the most wonderful fortune Chantelle – I have no doubt that after a few months you will wonder why you never did it sooner. The hardest part is just making that decision! Can’t wait to continue watching the journey to your new life and I am sure you will have us all convinced we should do the same! Leanne x
Fortune DOES favour the Brave~! And I hope I am just as brave when my turn comes as I struggle to ‘leave’ – to walk away from all I know and love…yet I know a new world beckons…there is better beyond this… And there are planes and trains and auto-mobiles and I can always come ‘home’ and visit…and maybe one day…this won’t be HOME anymore…
When we moved to the Northern Rivers in 2008 we left a home in Canberra we’d lived in since 1980! It hurt on so many levels I can’t count them all lol. But then our new life began – new things discovered each day, new friends to be made, so much to learn and see. It’s a magic environment here, and wonderful for kids as well as grownups. Have fun making your own discoveries but feel free to drop me a line if I can help with anything 🙂
Jeni
Northern Rivers Dreaming
Thanks Jeni! x
Moving is exciting but is also scary! But the best thing is a new area to explore, a new place to make your own, more fresh air and lots of new people to meet 🙂
Being Brave rocks!
Moving is a tough thing. My dad got really sick a few years back and my parents had to move back to Ireland. Even though I knew it was the right thing it was the hardest goodbye I have ever had to make. You should be very proud of yourself. It takes a lot of guts to move and it sounds like you are doing it wonderfully 🙂
We moved from the bright lights of the Gold Coast (complete with my parents / brother) 900km WEST – yes WEST and to a whole new way of life! SKYPE was my saviour; to see family and friends and chat was wonderful but over the last 6 months I have also found that I have grown to see my little family in a different way and I’ve begun to appreciate that although “family” may include all the many people in your life who are special, it’s my husband and children that I see now as MY family and MY “home” in a way I never saw before when I had the security of everyone and everything that I knew before … So, I guess I’m saying … EMBRACE the change , ENJOY the new experiences and LOVE the fact that your “little” family is right there with you throughout it all!!
Wishing you all the best Chantelle!
Best wishes to you…and great new “home” online. Cheers!
I thought I was the only one who listened to ‘love song dedications’ when I’m a little down. The fact that Lacey is now sleeping may be a sign that this will be a great thing for your family.
I love it for sentimental moments. Shall miss it, unless there is one just like it up here? Doubt it! x
Elizabeth Saxe Coburg-Gotha is an evil woman, why do we slave away at work our whole lives for money with her face on