Well, as our move back to the US gets closer and closer (4 weeks!) I've been trying to come up with ways of remembering where we live in England, and bringing reminders to the US.
When my son was born my mother in law made me a small doll's house (she's a huge doll house person), it is only 3 rooms, the top room being a nursery. She put a few things in it, mostly baby stuff, and painted the outside to match the outside of me and my husband's house.
Today I went to a dolls house fair and bought a load of things to put int he house - all that remind me of our time here. A postbox to put outside (just like the one we have on the corner). Ducks to go outside the windows (just like the ones that walk by every morning). A kitchen table with a pot of Colemans mustard and a plate of sausage rolls (just like my husband unfortunately likes to eat). S kitchen shelf filled with OXO cubes, Weetabix, and those Blue & White cornish serving bowls. A bottle of milk delivered outside the door. Lots of other little things like that.
It made me feel SO MUCH BETTER about leaving this country right now. My heart is here - but my heart is also in the US. So this was a really sentimental way of creating my own great big memory to bring back to the US.
