I started teaching cosmetology at Douglas J Aveda Institute in downtown Grand Rapids 5 days after we got back, our boxes weren't even unpacked. Shawn got to spend the whole summer with Adah and loved every minute of it. He even potty trained her by himself! We lived with Shawn's mom for 10 months and moved to our own place at the beginning of March!!!
Our little Adah had to have heart surgery back in October. When she was about 9 months old we were told she had a coarctation of the aorta, but it wasn't serious enough to have surgery right away. Her yearly appointment was in September and her doctor said we should do it sooner than later so a week later she was at the Helen Devos Children's Hospital having surgery! She did great and is back to her old self again :)
Shawn got a job with a temp service at Amway in a food lab. I went back to doing hair at the Grand Salon in Ada. (Side note: when we named Adah we weren't living in Michigan and didn't even think about her name that way and now both Shawn and I are working in Ada, weird!)
There was/is definitely reverse culture shock coming back to the U.S, even after only 9 months away. Shawn and I are not convinced we are suppose to be in Michigan but for now we are here for Adah and we are seeing our families all the time. We see our families way more than we use to (I would hope so since we are like 2000 + miles closer!) We also see my sister and her three kids as much as possible, with them living in Lansing it's not as much as I would like. So we are doing what we are meant to do right now, surround Adah with her family as much as possible! We still haven't figured out what we are doing but I am trying to be patient and content and not do anything except living day by day.
I am going to try and blog a little more often than previously (which shouldn't be hard to beat once a year!)
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