"Home" is where the heart is?

Many of you have been asking about the details of my future and I would be happy to share the ones that I myself already know!  The day after tomorrow (May 2nd) I will be on a plane back to Ann Arbor Michigan to work with the Song family as their FULL TIME nanny.  Both parents will now be working and so I will have a full 40 hours a week with my favorite little ones and I am so excited!!!

As I near my departure from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina I am surprisingly nostalgic and a bit sad to be leaving a place that I can finally say has become one of my many "homes."  I have worked more than enough hours at both Starbucks and the pool and made many new friends in the process. I am more in love than ever with my best friend of almost 4 years (Ben) and will miss him terribly...

With all of that said, this move to Michigan will be semi-permanent. The word I am using is "indefinite." For now, I will be in Michigan working and reevaluating things with the Song family at the end of July. We intend to keep "reevaluating" every few months until I decide the next step in my life.  So for now I am saying goodbye to Myrtle Beach and hello to Ann Arbor (A2) and I am having the most extreme of mixed emotions!

Tonight I will head out with some close friends in Myrtle Beach to say our final goodbyes, and Saturday I will have a welcome back BBQ with my group of salsa friends in Ann Arbor! On top of all of that at the end of May I will be in California and again in July to celebrate my sisters wedding and the birth of my niece!  

At the end of the day, I realize I am so blessed and so happy to have so many different families, homes, and friends! And I am so excited to see what the future brings!

"Sometimes in the * W A V E S * of change we find our true direction."

MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA

So this is the lovely view of the Atlantic Ocean and white sand beach that is just outside my window! It makes me wish I had never left and although it is rainy today, the weather is soon to be in the 60s-80s and I will for sure be in that ocean again!

On April 1st I flew from Detroit, Michigan back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! I landed at 8:30am and that VERY SAME day I jumped into THIS pool to teach my first swim lesson of the April session:

April 2nd was Benjamin's 30th birthday and so on the 4th we drove 6 hours to be with his family in Williamsburg Virginia! That put me in 4 states in 4 days! (Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia too!) We had a fantastic time with friends and family and ate waaaaay too much food! Monday the 7th we drove back so that I could have time to jump in the pool for more lessons and today (the 8th) I started up again at Starbucks in the mornings with the pool in the afternoons!

As for the future plans there will be A LOT more traveling!! I will be finishing the swim lessons to their completion on May 1st and then MAY 2nd I will be back on a plain to Michigan! 

MAY 29th-JUNE 1st I will be traveling from Michigan to California to be the maid of honnor in my little sister's wedding.

JULY 15th-JULY 23 I will be visiting California again for a friend's wedding and to meet my niece who is due at the end of June!

I will also be taking weekend trips back to South Carolina to visit Ben and he will be taking trips up to Michigan to visit last he did last month!

The Song's and I have talked about reevaluating both of our needs at the end of July and there is always a possibility that I will head back more permanently to the beach with Ben. For now that part is up in the air and I am going to enjoy all of the travel I get to do until then!