Apologies for the delay in updates, but as you can guess we've been busy!
So here's where we are at the moment:
House is decluttered - over 40 boxes and a couple of pieces of large furniture have gone into storage. Unfortunately there's still quite a lot of stuff left but less packing to do when the time comes.
And we're sort of on the market; the estate agent has taken his photos and measurements, the details have been approved, and we're just waiting for the HIP to be finished. The energy assessor has been so hopefully that won't take too much longer.
School place is booked and confirmed for the eldest, just need to make some decisions on daycare/kindergarten for the other two and then we can get ourselves on the (4 month) waiting list.
Actual moving date is really dependant on selling the house. D will definitely be going out there at the beginning of July to settle into his new office and the apartment, but not sure about the rest of us. He's going to do a first run at some point with a car load of stuff that we want to have when we first arrive, and the rest of the stuff will be shipped over when we find a house.
We've mostly cleared out the garage and successfully got rid of some things on freecycle - that was an experience in itself!
Now it's just a case of waiting and trying to sell the house. There are various trips we need to make to visit people before we go, but the hard work is temporarily finished. Phew!
I'm not desperately looking forward to living in a 4th floor apartment with 3 girls, so hoping that we'll be able to find the house that we want soon after we arrive. I do keep looking on the Swedish version of Rightmove though and keep being disappointed that we're not ready to buy now! It's not a big worry though, as it will be better to let the girls learn Swedish (mostly so they can translate for me of course) before we move them again.
I think that's all for now....
