should I move house when the dc's are away?

[SpringBunny]

We will be moving house at some point (when the solicitors etc manage to get their acts together). I am expecting it to be in July, and the dc's are going away with my mother first week of the hols.

Wondered if that was a good time to move as no distractions, or bad as it may be very traumatic to go away for a week and come home to a new house?

Any advice apprecaited.

how old are they?

lol....when I read your title I was thinking along the lines of...so they don't knwo where I am when they come back;)

Joke aside, does depend on your childrens ages and their personalities.
Practically it would of course be so much easier to move without Kids in the way, but if you think they might find it to trraumatic, it's no good!
Have they seen the House, are they old enough to understand that that house will be their new home.
Could you go to the House before you move in and show them their new bedrooms and may ask them what colour they want it decorated, etc....!

They are 5 (well she'll be 6 by then) and 4.

Both have seen the new house once and are quite excited about it - dd more so than ds as he doesn't really understand fully, keeps asking if his toys will be coming too.

I have told them about all the fun they will have in the new garden (much bigger) and we will get a trampoline etc.

I have avoided saying too much yet as they have no real concept of time.

Sounds ideal, but maybe discuss it with them before setting anything in stone.

Actually I think my children might cope OK.

Make sure you have help with the move though!

My parents did - my brother was 9 and I was 14

It help my parents get the house straight - I think my brother was alright (although he has grown up to be slightly strange )

SpringBunny, I think your Kids would be o.k. at that age...if anything, you mentioning your sons "concern" that his toys will come....it might actually be better if he is on Holiday when his Toys are packed away for a few days...so, I weould go for it, as it is so much easier to move without Kids in the way, and you might even be able to get that promised Trampoline already set up
I can really recommend the one I got myself of E-Bay, the seller is great, the service fast and the Trampline is lovely and it even was a bit of a bargain We got a 14ft oner, which, due to size of our garden, is almost a bit small,lol, dispite actually beign a big thing, btu teh seller sells all sizes

we went to our nanas when we moved when i was 8
what i can remember is going into a new house and running upstairs to see my bedroom and my dad had painted it pink for me and had set up my dolls cot next to my bed
i loved it

I wouldn't, personally. We had same situation (with exactly same aged kids) last summer. My parents came and helped us more, and the dds were around for the move (got them out of the way for a few hours on the day of the move with friends, but basically they saw us putting stuff in the truck at the old house and getting stuff out at the new house). Then a couple of days later they went and stayed with my parents and I stayed behind and sorted the place out. But I thought that they'd be a bit freaked to just leave one house to go on holiday and come home to a different one.

Thanks guys for the advice.

There is a fair bit of work to do on the house (rewiring, new heating system and boiler, new bathrooms etc) so we won't be able to decorate their rooms straight away.

I like the idea of them packing up their favourite toys but I am worried that if I tell them before they go away they will worry about coming back to a new house and it may spoil the holiday (which is the only one they will get this year due to various factors)

I like too them seeing the truck being loaded then being spirited away for the day until it gets unloaded at the other end ....