As most people know we are moving to Michigan to go to school. November was a crazy month, full of packing our first apartment up in a big ABF semi to send to MI. We lived at my friend Lindsays house out of suit cases, finishing our last week of work. After we finished work, the Hoovers took us in. The room they are allowing us to live in is so beautiful. Its a beautiful home away from home away from home...! We feel extremely blessed by all the helping hands around us. The Lord is truly showing us His love through all of this. The week of Thanksgiving we packed a small cary on suitcase and were off at 4am to the airport to fly to Minnesota. We arrived there at 9:30am and our sister Liz and her fiance picked us up. We drove 10 hours home to Muskegon MI. Arriving there at 11:15pm, dad Hutton, mom Hutton, Amanda, Ethan, Liz, Caleb, Adam and I went down stars to see the progress on the remodeled basement. As we walked down I saw our couch already in the living room. What a huge blessing, they had already began to unpack our ABF truck that arrived days before. Our room and living room was so beautiful. I instantly began thinking of how I was going to stage the rooms. On our table there was a bottle of wine, two wine glasses, dark chocolates, and a beautiful letter reading "Designed with love." What a blessing! We all went up to the table to drink, eat, laugh, and talk. We all soon thought of the long day ahead of unloading the rest of the truck and Thanksgiving, and decided to turn in. Adam and I headed down to our new room crawled in bed and said a prayer. The next morning we all ate breakfast and got to work. I stayed downstairs delegating where to put everything and carefully inspecting everything to make sure it arrived safely. Most everything did but I was feeling extremely overwhelmed. I told myself over and over "Just take a deep breath, your ok!" I went to move our table to make a little more space for everything and 'CRACK'! The leg of the table broke off. "Just take a deep breath, your ok!" Dad Hutton asked how we where doing and all I could say was I don't know. I told him about the broken leg on the table and he quickly said it could be fixed noticing the change in my spirit. We finished unloading the truck and I went up stairs to get away from the mess. I sat in the living room silently crying. "I just wish I could cry as my momma or my big sisters held me." I thought
You see, about a week earlier as we where packing up our apartment my mom and dad came to help us pack and right when they got there I pulled my mom in the kitchen and she wrapped her arms around me telling me I would be ok as I cried in her bosem. Then the next day we where trying to finish and my big sister and her family came over to help. Right when she walked in she hugged me and I burst into tears again. The thought of leaving them was really hard for me to handle and packing up my apartment was making it a reality that was hard to face.
So here I sat in the living room feeling similar emotions and crying alone. The Lord said to me "Go to your mother-in-law, she will hold you." So I swallowed any pride I may have had and walked into the kitchen where she was making a pie. I then burst into tears and melted into her arms. She hugged me as best she could with her hands covered in pie doe telling me I would be ok. I got all my tears out and took a deep breath. Adam stood there looking at me with his "are you ok?" eyes and invited me into his strong arms. I didn't feel alone at all I had my family surrounding me with love and support. I was ok! We then all got ready for our trip to Uncle Tim and Aunt Chris' house for Thanksgiving dinner. We arrived there and it was an instant party, 3 out of 7 of moms siblings where there with their whole family which makes for about 25 people. We ate, laughed, played and just had a good time! It was a blast! We went home at about 11 and all crashed. The next day Adam and I got as settled as best we could, there in the basement. We all got ready, packed and headed out for our 4 hour trip to Gaylord for the Sheer wedding. We arrived and got settled in at the beautiful hotel the family was staying at. We all grabbed drinks and fellowshipped the night away. The next day was the wedding which was a joy, lots of dancing. And the morning after that we went to Uncle Steve's church and then went to have breakfast. We said our good byes got in the car for a 10 hour drive back to Minnesota. On the way back we briefly stopped at Aaron and Krissy's to give them some love and encouragement as they where soon to go into labor. We got to Liz's house about Midnight and went to bed. After a good night sleep, we woke up and had a quick breakfast with Liz and got ready to go to the airport to head home. Caleb came and picked us up and drove us to the airport and we flue back home arriving at 2:39pm. We came back to our home away from home away from home, the Hoovers, and rested. So far we have been just chilling here. I will randomly get nervous to say my good byes but then I remind myself to let that come when it comes. I also worry that my family and I are in denial about how soon I'm actually leaving...
