The Curate is going to become a vicar very soon (10th March is his official start date, since you ask).
This means that we are moving house next week. We’re making the shift at half term to enable the kids to transfer to their new schools without too much of a break. Nanna is kindly taking them to stay with her and Grandpa for most of the week to make things easier at this end. 
So we’re having an odd sort of week. Lots of ‘lasts’ as we say goodbye to friends and parishioners. As I write this the Curate is off visiting some housebound folk to bid farewell.
And I am still feeling like it’s not really happening. We’re moving just eight miles away, only twenty minutes away in the car. But it will be very different.
The Curate is going to be the Vicar. He will have to worry about the drains as well as his sermons. He’ll be responsible for the congregation – the buck will stop with him.
The children will be moving to a new school where they will finish their primary education and growing up with the folk they meet there. Their Black Country accents will be strengthened.
And I need to find my feet, my real-life ‘vicar’s wife’ role. How can I best support my husband as he seeks to tell our parish about how the cross of Jesus is good news? I don’t have a job description and will be making it up as I go along, blagging, as the Curate puts it.
But I am a bit of a blagger, so I should be all right. On everything apart from flower arranging I think.
The Vicar's Wife 
Congratulation on the move. Moving is a stress full job and with children makes it more difficult. I have move nine times and i know how it feel to move. Except for the last move which was done by Box i moved by my self.
Thanks Harmon. Welcome to my vicarage!
Thankfully we have packers coming to move us as our diocese pays for them as the move is part of the Curate’s job. Not that it’s like that in all dioceses. About which I shall blog soon….
Best wishes on your move! Has anyone prepared you for the grief you’ll probably feel after the packing and relocation is done?Noone told us just how deeply mournful we would be when we left our church family in Hampshire for Ulster- we were quite unprepared for the feelings. Hoping that your move is smooth, and that the family copes well.
Oh, and you may be interested in the t-shirt that I’m thinking of having produced; what do you reckon?! (see link!)
Alex
Best wishes on the move. I’m a vicar’s son so have plenty of experience of what you and the family will be going through. Not sure my mother ever really got the hang of the ‘vicar’s wife-role’, but at least she was quite good at flower arranging.
Love the blog – make sure you keep it up!
Welcome to the vicarage Tim. Glad you like the blog.
I’m enjoying the blogging just now and have lots of posts in my head. Hopefully a few will make it out past the packing lists over the next couple of weeks.
What’s your mum’s top flower arranging tip then?