It's starting to get real around here

Sunday evening in the Goldie household and the realtor has just left our home and we have officially signed.  We are receiving our "Coming Soon" sign in our front yard tomorrow, as well as an appointment with the stager.  We will then begin the task of decluttering and temporarily storing items until the big move.  Photos to be taken by the end of the week.  Open house next week, and then the official date to start accepting offers soon after that.  Wow!  Shit is getting real now.  

Ha, and to throw a lil wrench into everything, I get on a plane tomorrow morning to go to the Texas for a week of meetings.  My poor husband.  This week while I was in San Francisco for work Greg had bronchitis, Abbey still has bronchitis, Ayden had major eye surgery, and Ginger spent the evening at the emergency animal hospital and is still pretty sick.  Lets just say there has been a lot of bodily fluids flowing, an only Greg there to clean up.  I don't know how much competition there is out there for being "Mom of the Year" as it's only March, but ladies, I just want you to know you have some stiff competition. I am all in and making a strong run for it.

My company officially announced my new role last week while I was out of the office.  We were fortunate enough to be able to spend nine days in Mexico with the babes, one of my most dearest friend and my nephew, and the morning we returned I was on a flight to San Fran.  Now Dallas and Houston this week.  I am looking forwarding to spending some time in the Toronto office soon with my team and peers.  My team and I have survived so much in the past three years, I just want to give them all a huge hug and thank them for everything, especially accepting and opening their arms to such a crazy, foul mouth American.  I will miss them dearly.

So you may be wondering what the heck I will be doing in my new role in the US, and if you are not, well guess what?  I am going to tell you anyway.  Since I joined ACE Insurance several years ago, part of my responsibility was cyber insurance.  For you folks outside of the corporate insurance industry, yes, yes, there is something called cyber insurance and many organizations purchase cyber insurance in the event they have some type of cyber breach within their organization.  I always say it's very difficult to associate the word "sexy" with insurance but when you are talking cyber insurance this is as sexy as it gets.  And I do have to admit, it's pretty damn interesting; however, I admit, I am an insurance geek.  Back to my new role, my organization Chubb (after merger of ACE and Chubb, we are now Chubb), has been very successful as becoming a leader in the cyber insurance community.  As such, they have taken the initiative to grow out their cyber team.  My responsibility is more on the marketing, sales and distribution side of the business.  My goal, along with my team is to increase Chubb's visibility in North America as the thought leader for cyber insurance.  Seems pretty cool huh? (Just appease me and shake your head up and down.)

Greg and I have been having quite a few sleepless nights lately, and I am sure it has to do with the increased stress, anxiety and excitement of all that is going on in our life right now.  When you are going through a life altering time, such as moving from one country to another, it's pretty fucking crazy.  I do have to admit so far it's much easier than cancer; however, there are many days when I cannot figure out what I should be doing.  And many days I just want to sit on the couch, with my dog on my lap, sipping a glass of wine and watching mindless TV.  There is so happening right now, so instead I am attempting to do the best I can to just cross a couple things off my to do list while getting a few moments of puppy love, a sip or two of wine, and some fun family time with the babes, while throwing in a couple grabs of my hot piece of meets hinder while sticking my tongue down his throat (I know I know a just made you puke in your mouth a bit :)  I will continue to celebrate these small wins, while giving myself and Greg realistic expectations and not get my undies in a bunch for the small deals that do not go the way we expected.  I am sure during this process we will hit many bumps in the road, and we must continue to remind ourselves and each other . . . Is this a small deal or a big deal and most importantly . . . can it be solved with wine.

With that, I have to get myself to bed as my flight is pretty early in the morning.  Thanks for reading my posts.  I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it.

So tomorrow as you go through your day and get a upset over something, please stop and ask yourself "Can this be resolved with a few moments of deep breathing or a glass of wine?"  And yes, sometimes small deals may need both :)