Category Archives: Expatriating
One week
In one week from today, from right now, we’ll be departing our fair city and our beloved friends. Earlier today, I could not hold back the tears as Miss Amy, Thora’s Tae Kwon Do instructor for two years, presented her … Continue reading
Ten Days? Really?
Our big move to New Zealand has been so long in the making, always so far in the future as to be something from a fantasy, a dream-life that exists only in conversations or in the hypothetical. Something so far … Continue reading
Just under 2 years since my very first post and we’re on our way.
I can’t believe I’m writing this, thinking this. But as of this afternoon, we have a long road ahead of us and we’re seeing green lights all the way. It’s been a whirlwind of a weekend, and I’m not even … Continue reading
The first sets of tears
It was Sunday and I had the kids and my parents in the car. They’d just spent the weekend visiting and we were dropping them off at South Station so that they could catch their bus back to NYC. We’d … Continue reading
Clenching jaw, getting headache, venting steam into blog post.
It’s unbelievable to write this, but Sean has his final work day five weeks from today. We are getting close to the final month countdown. And yet… Most notably, we have no visas because we’re still awaiting the Medical Council … Continue reading
I’m wading in the calm waters.
Today, when I woke up our 5 year old daughter, her first words were, “How many more days until we move to New Zealand?” I know that the adjustment to her new life there will involve various stages. I’m sure … Continue reading
The path turns and suddenly the wind is at our backs.
Apparently, if you give a cry out into the big open sky, someone hears you. Within a day of writing the previous post in which I gripe and vent, the sky opened up and the sun shone down on our … Continue reading
She knows…
We hadn’t been vigilant about keeping it from her and yet we hadn’t sat our 5 year-old daughter down for a straightforward discussion about our impending move. We’d decided that until it was more certain and we were closer to … Continue reading
Finally we are cleared by the FBI
Phew! I mean the joke of course is that we have no FBI background. But it’s taken an eternity for the letters to arrive. Actually, after all this time, I was surprised to realize that I found them disappointingly brief. … Continue reading
On a lighter, more handsome note
Yesterday’s post was a little melancholy. So in an effort for some levity I thought I would share that in moving to New Zealand, among the many benefits that I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I like to remind myself that … Continue reading
Countdown To New Zealand: On the Road to Becoming an American Ex-Pat 