Anyways. So our trip cross country with the kids wasn't as crazy as thought it was going to be. We stopped the first night in Colorado at a motel and the Second night we spent in Indianan with some of our best friends Amanda and Jogie Miller. We rush out in the morning so we could get to our own apartment in Michigan before they closed. OR SO WE THOUGHT!!! I guess the way they rent apartments there is if you are staying for any part of the month then you owe rent for the whole month. We were going to be there from the 6th of September to the 4th of October which meant we were paying for the full month of September AND October...which we couldn't do. After trying to figure things out with them, long story short, we found ourselves homeless in Michigan lol.
I am super flexible so we looked up an motel and figured we would just make it our home unless something else came up. The first motel we went to Jason put a big fat veto on lol. Something about it being way to sketchy or something. So we tried another one further north. It was better and it had a complimentary breakfast and a laundry mat! I could totally make that work. Just use the kitchen there for making meals and I could even wash all the clothes at the laundry mat. We would be a bit crowded with only one room but we were craving some family time anyways right! Sadly all the breakfast was was coffee and the laundry mat was broken. But at least we had a home that felt safe.
The next morning we went to church and it felt SO right. I instantly fell in love with everyone in the ward. We had felt that for some reason we were supposed to do a rotation and our 6 month core in Michigan. Even though I really really REEEAALLY wanted to stay closer to family. Showing up on Sunday and feeling so at peace with everything confirmed to me that we were really supposed to be there. The Corlesses even invited us over for games and dinner that night. How did they know we looved playing games...and only had leftover pizza waiting in the motel for dinner lol?
After church a brother came up to me and said that they have a basement that would have space for us and a kitchen that we could rent!! On Monday we checked it out. Heather, Mark and their kids were SOO awesome...and we moved everything in that night. They seriously were such LIFE SAVERS!!
Everything after that was much more low key and yet crazy and fun. Jason loved the rotation because of how they teach and actually care about the residents, the schedule, and what they focused on in the hospital. I had so much fun with Heather and the other girls in the ward! We checked out the Apple Cider farms, had a bow making party, and had plenty of dance parties on their new wood floor :). I loved having little girls around that I could teach dance to, and Aiden had a "twin" that he could be a partner in crime with. Mark...excuses me "The Mark" got us all tickets to the Tigers game. ;) That one's for you Mark and Heather ;). Heather seriously became a second sister to me. We are both totally crazy and love to sing and dance. She helps in YW, and that month we brainstormed ideas on how to change the words to the song "I'm all about that base" to "I'm all bout being chaste" hahahaha I still have the words to that song stuck in my head! I'm so excited to be able to go back in December to my friends there and "settle down" till May.
Oh and we actually have everything lined up Apartment-wise for when we get back.
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