Yes, looks like we may be able to see the end of the tunnel…

Solicitor rang this morning with a date….. Friday 8th February…

The day before hubby’s Birthday.

Now perhaps we can move forward.. though, as we have an unfathomable legal system, we still have no guarantees. We have not yet reached the stage where everything is legally binding.. but, always the optimist..

WE ARE MOVING….soon!!! YAY……

One day, maybe one day soon, we will ACTUALLY move into our new house….

This is getting tedious!

The longer this house moving business drags on, the more and more pessimistic I become.

One thing darling hubby taught me many years is that pessimism and negativity should have no place in my thinking.

It has taken many years of drip feeding, and mind-set changing to bring me to a place where I can always find a positive in a negative…

I always try to look for the good in the bad… it is a coping mechanism. One that keeps me on an even keel.

And where this house move is concerned, I know all the practical reasons why this is the right thing for us.

I know that this is something we must do.

And I know that there will be an end, soon.

But this streak of negativity is running through all of me at the moment and the longer this legal process takes, the more negativity sets in and I am now convinced that these delays are meaningful and that it is all going to go belly up…..

I need to focus.

I need to draw up a list of positives and keep reading them.

I need the solicitors to get their act together.

I need a date to focus on…

But house buying and selling is just not like that and our legal system, which I do not even try to pretend to understand, seems to be a puzzling mess of steps and stages that only seem to benefit the solicitors. Thankfully, we are paying them a flat fee so I cannot say that the delays are going to cost us any more financially.. but mentally the cost to my sanity is starting to tell.

I am trying…..

Son is now running a temperature and has not gone to College today…..

However, Ed is feeling better…. horray! He is going to take the dog for a walk in a short while to get a bit of air. We feel that it is wise for him not to tend to his parents needs today, as it would be a serious matter if F in Law was to catch something like this in his delicate state of health. So it will be no problem for me to carry on while Ed makes a full recovery. He has a job tomorrow collecting a client from Gatwick Airport and bringing him to South Wales so he needs to be totally fit for that. It would have been a bit tricky if he had had a job to do on Friday or the weekend….. Still, Ed has always been blessed with exceptionally good health.

So I await to see how things with Son progress. I will keep you posted!

Poor hubby is still sick.

It is so unusual for him to be unwell.

It all started on friday morning when he got up and found that moving was a very painful experience. He got back into bed after the little darlings has left for school and college and we spent a very pleasant few hours of “quality time together”. It does seem that however ill he feels, he is never too ill for a bit of R and R so to speak. In fact, whenever he is ill, he seems to need it even more than usual. Must be a “man thing”.

Anyway, I insisted he stayed in bed for a while as I was home and able to take care of things here. and surprisingly, that is what he did - and he has stayed in bed since - getting up for a little while to lie on the settee and then go back to bed.

There are some nasty viruses going round at the moment and the poor dear seems to have picked one up from somewhere. His temperature is down to 99F now, which seems almost normal compared to the high readings he has registered over the last 24 hours.

I am hoping, for his sake, that his is now over the worse and will improve tomorrow.

I take him so much for granted. Walking the dog, calling in at the shops to keep us and his parents stocked up with bread and milk and basic provisions, and of course, dealing with the demands of his elderly parents. It comes as a bit of a shock to suddenly become a one parent family and my heart reaches out to all of you out there who do not have the support of a loving partner in their life.

Darling Ed. I promise not to take for granted, all the things you do to make my life easier and I will try to be more appreciative of you.

I love you and get well soon!!