The timing has been really fortunate in that our renters actually moved out in May so we are able to move right back into our home and since school is wrapping up in another 2 weeks our kids are able to complete their year here and begin a new school year in MI. They'll have the shortest summer ever, but that's ok, we've put them through worse! haha! We're all really excited that the kids will be back at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, too.
The kids and I will fly back at the end of this month, their last day of school is July 27. We'll bring back as much as we can in our suitcases and since we purchased all new furniture from IKEA when we moved here and have had all of our furniture from our home in Michigan in storage these past two years (thank you, Pro Movers) we won't have to wait months for our furniture to be shipped back to the US.
Chris will be home for 2 weeks in August for a planned vacation, but then he will fly back to Germany to finish up work with ZF and wrap up all loose ends here. He'll be back home for good at the end of September. It'll be a long six weeks until we're all back home together again but we'll make it, and the kids and I will be surrounded by family and friends while he is gone. I totally owe him, too...when we moved into our home in Beverly Hills I was in the hospital having just delivered Emily. I left our old house to have a baby and came home from the hospital with Emily to the new house. He moved us all. Like I said, I owe him ; ) It's my turn to move us in and let him come home to a finished house. Ha!
I met a sweet friend (also from Michigan!) shortly after we moved here...and their family moved back to the States a few months after we met...I was SO excited for her and for their family. We were only a few months in and the transition here was really difficult for me (remember I don't like change haha!) I remember my friend expressing her feelings about moving back to the US, she was excited and happy to be closer to family but also feeling sad to be leaving Germany. I didn't get it at the time...how could she be anything but excited to be going back to the US?!? But I totally get it now.
I don't know when I'll have the words to express what this experience has been like for our family. We've grown closer and have felt so fortunate to be welcomed into a new country and culture by so many wonderful people. I'm going to miss these friendships and relationships deeply. And I know our kids are, too. As excited as we all are to be coming home, and we are...(please don't misunderstand me. We get to come HOME! To the best country in the world!) We are also sad to be leaving this beautiful place and all of these wonderful people we've been lucky enough to meet in the past two years.
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