24/06/2023
Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been as active on Instagram recently. However, I've got some big news: my family and I are moving from the UK to Atlanta, Georgia! It's been a crazy few months trying to deal with all the logistics of moving overseas, while at the same time processing some pretty intense emotions about leaving a place where we've been for so long. The house we're in now is the place where I've lived consistently for the longest in my entire life. Some amazing things have happened in the last 10+ years here, and some pretty tragic things as well, and because of that, I feel like Liverpool has taken care of me in some of the most trying times of my life. My kids haven't known anything else, so even though I wasn't born here myself, I feel like I've put down roots in this place.
I took my wife and the two girls to the airport this morning and set them on their way to the new chapter in their lives. I am now back at our house for the next week by myself to wrap up the final pieces of moving our family across the ocean. I'll be sending our pets in the middle of the week, and the movers are coming to take just a few of the things from the house to ship on a boat. I walked back into the house after dropping them off at the airport and I was flooded with some very intense sadness that I hadn't felt up until this point. I think I've been focused on the tasks at hand, but now that the house is empty, it's really hit home that we are leaving this place where we've built so many memories: the birth of my youngest daughter in our kitchen, the disco parties in our loft bedroom, the quiet times sipping coffee and looking out at Wales from our bedroom window, and the first time I carved a spoon in our kitchen! Places shape people, and I'm grateful to have been shaped by this little house in Liverpool. ❤️
