We met with another real estate agent today. Both my husband and I liked her much more than the previous one we met with. She may just be the one we go with.

Hubby is getting extremely anxious. Oddly, I'm about as good as I've been in years. I used to be frightened to heck out of the prospect of moving abroad, and yet now I feel at peace with the idea. Even very excited about it. I find myself being the cheerleader now. The whole situation seems like the right thing to do and the right time. We're hoping that there will be another batch of lay offs in my husband's department in October. We both hope, greatly, that he's one of the ones laid off. We've decided that if he isn't, he will find a way to escape that place. It's making him ill. The time has come. A new chapter in our lives.