Stage 5: Upwards Turns and Moving To America.
Things were starting to get better. My depression, or reflection and loneliness had almost gone I was on my 5th stage, only two more to go.
This is the stage where everything starts to get better; hence the 'upwards turns.' Since the last stage a lot has happened. Me and Carlise have moved in together, things have been going great. We have been talking lately though, nothing bad, infact it was a dream that we both share; we both want to go to America. We both want to go and live what they call the American Dream. I personally had dreamed of moving there since I was twelve or thirteen, I also wanted to go around the world. Myself and Emmett had planned to but things didn't quite work as I fell pregnant with Alice and everything afterwards aswell. Me and Carlise had decided that is what we wanted to do, as this country had too many memories for both of us, but we also wanted to have a fresh start. We had been looking for almost a month at houses and visa's and jobs, and we had found them all!
We were going to America. We had found this beautiful house in Palm Springs California. It was a big beautiful house with a big garden and drive and a double garage. It was our dream house.
Now it was 2 days until we leave – I am so excited!! Everything was packed and all we had to do was get it all to the airport and on the plane and we were done, we were living the dream. We sent the last day saying goodbye to friends and family. On the day of the flight we had our whole family there to wave us off. When we were on the plane all I could think of was what our houses was going to look like, we had flown over a couple of times to see it, and to have a look in the flesh at houses, as it's better than looking at pictures.
After a four or five hour flight, we finally arrived, I was so excited, there was a removal van at the airport waiting for us to load our furniture and suitcases and etc into. It was a half hour drive to our new house. When we got there the removal men helped us to get all our things into the house. Then when everything was inside we were left in a house full of boxes, I sighed a sigh of relief.
"Right we'd better get going" and I started to unpack a box. Tonight I just wanted the beds done and the food sorted, so I started Carlise on building the bed while I put the bed covers on, then I went to the shop which was only at the end of the street. All I bought was enough to make a meal for us tonight then when we had finished tomorrow we would go and do a big shop and fill the cupboards. Me and Carlise both had a week before we started our jobs there, in that time we had to get the house sorted and furniture all sorted and in place then when we had a free weekend we could decorate. On my way to the shop I panicked a bit as I didn't really know where I was going, I knew where it was and everything but I have only ever been with Carlise, but I needed him to build the bed.
As I got to the shop I found a car parking place and grabbed my purse and went into the shop, I didn't know where anything was so I was going to look stupid for a while, whilst I found all the things I needed. Then I thought 'Oh no!' I forgot to ask Carlise what he wanted. I will just have to guess. What haven't we had in a while? I eventually decided I would make a stir fry, if I could find my wok back at home in all the boxes. No okay I won't do a stir fry I will just make a burger and chips, so I grabbed some burgers out of the freezers and some chips and went back home.
When I got there Carlise had finished building the bed and was just unpacking other boxes, trying to find all the things to go into the kitchen. I made us some tea and then we went to bed. We were both shattered. For the next week that is all we did, unpack all the boxes, and some days we even went to the local DIY store and bought some extra little drawers and things. Soon the house was all unpacked and all the furniture was sorted, all we needed to do now was decorate but we could do that some other time, when were weren't quite so tired!
I was determined though, like I had always been, I was going to get my perfect house, no matter how long it took. I was living my American Dream. Well actually not my American Dream, just my dream, I was so in love and happy it was unbelievable.