Waiting, hoping, missing and looking forward
We are still waiting to hear on whether we’ll get the ‘short sale’ house and we aren’t likely to hear until the end of the year at the earliest. We have our fingers crossed because we can really see potential in that property and would be so happy living there, so here’s hoping one day we’ll have a home again.
In the mean time we are still living our minimalist existence in our apartment in Santa Clara. We decided to put up a Christmas tree quite early this year (December 2nd) to try and make it feel festive and more homely. Unfortunately the Christmas tree lasted 2 days before Toby decided to climb in it and get himself caught up in the lights! We no longer have a Christmas tree up in our living room!!
We haven’t decided what we are going to do for Christmas this year yet. Because of the timing this year Jasper will get two 3 day weekends so hopefully we’ll do a bit more exploring and go on some random drives. Other than that I expect it will be a quiet one, just the two of us. Hopefully next year we’ll be in our own house and we will have some visitors! 
I have been studying lots this week as I have my last assignment of the year due in next Wednesday. I also get the results of my last two courses on Friday so a big Uni week next week. I also need to decide whether to take my final course concurrently with the one I am studying at the moment or not, if I want to I will have to register by 22nd December so not a lot of time to decide.
I am glad I’ve not been in the UK for the past few weeks, the weather there has been insane almost the entire country was covered in snow last week. It’s insane we never normally get snow this time of year. Not only has it been super cold and snowy but the whole economic and political situation seems to be ridiculous. So many people are out of work, more and more people are being made redundant each day. Students are protesting in London and rioting which is insanity, I thought students were meant to be all about the peaceful protest. I understand they want to make a point but those people acting like idiots are not going to help their cause.
It’s a funny time of year for us Potts’ as this week marks a year since my father-in-law lost his battle with cancer. Being away from family at Christmas and not settled in a new home yet has been difficult enough but also dealing with a time where having family close would be helpful has been tough. Definitely really missed Jay lots this year, there have been so many times that we have seen something and wanted to tell him about it or we have made plans and wanted to share them with him. It’s so tough dealing with losing someone, we knew for a while that it was likely to happen we knew there was a chance that all the chemo and surgery wouldn’t stop the cancer but when it happened, when his body couldn’t fight it anymore it was just heart breaking and living without him in our lives has been so difficult. I don’t think any of us have reached a point yet where we can’t just cry at the thought of knowing he’s not here anymore but I think we’re all coping a lot better.
At this time of year it’s not just tough because of missing Jay but also being so far away from the grandparents, parents and siblings, I miss everyone.
I can’t quite believe that in 2 months time I am going to become an Auntie, my brother and his soon to be wife are due to have a little boy at the beginning of February 2011. I am so excited but also a bit gutted that we are so far away from each other. I can’t wait to have a nephew, I just hope we will be able to see him as much as we can.
No other exciting news from the Potts house, just waiting and hoping that the house happens and this time next year we’ll be celebrating Christmas in our own home with our cats and some family. Also looking forward to meeting the new MacKenzie addition in 2011.
Peaceful protests and love peeps
xxx