The next day.

The next day, we waited, not very patiently, hoping for a reply or a text or anything!! That evening , when we hadn't heard anything back, Matt sent the owners a text checking if they had received our email or not. They replied saying that they had just returned our email!

We quickly jumped on to check and were stoked to see that they liked the sound of us, and would like us to come down to the cottages to check the place out and meet them! We couldn't book our tickets fast enough!! The plan was to stay at the cottages a few nights, then fly to Melbourne for a stopover on the way home to meet them.

We booked our tickets for the following week. We didn't want to hold off or try to work out holidays with work etc. I had 4 days off work the next week so we just went for it. We organised someone to take care of the kids and the tickets were booked. This was happening!!!

This was the moment when I broke down. I think everything overwhelmed me at once and I lost it :( Was this a bit rushed? What the hell were we doing!? We only had this idea a few days ago and now we were heading there with the possibility of moving??? My son Harrison is shared 50/50 custody with his Dad, I figured there was no way his Dad would let Harrison move with us. How could I leave him behind?? I can't do that!! I cried many hours that night, right after the tickets were booked. Matt kept reassuring me, it wasn't set in concrete yet. Let's just go down and see how we feel? The tickets were already booked and paid for so we had nothing to lose. I came to terms with it, just told myself it was a holiday for us. There was no way I was moving without Harrison I decided.

So all was good! We were set to leave in less than a week 😱