I'm not going to confirm or deny any possible locations for our next move, if we move, but I really don't feel ready to move back to Calgary this summer. Or next summer, and probably the summer thereafter. I am totally, totally, totally surprised that I feel this way, too.
We're finishing off our third year in Thailand, and it's about this time that Chris's company starts looking into where it's overseas staff can go next. If we don't move on this summer, we probably will within the next eighteen months.
There would be some really fantastic things about going home - I can't argue that living around farmer's markets, the mountains, and the fabulous meatloaf sandwich at Spolumbo's would be a horrible thing. What I am uncomfortable with is that an assignment back to Calgary could be temporary.
Temporary means that between Thailand and the next international assignment, I will have gone back to work and/or school, put Sadie in daycare, and the entire family will have settled back into our regular lives. We'd own cars, have a garden, season passes to the zoo ... I just can't say with certainty that I'd support leaving it behind, one more time. So, I hope that we don't have to decide just yet; I've thought of little else for the last few days and obsessions are heavy things.
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Posted by: Adelina Mathews | February 04, 2010 at 06:59 PM