We did it! We finally went home!
After waiting over a year for my green card I finally went back home. I was about to have a nandos again after two years, do you know how much I craved that when I was pregnant?! Nandos, a chippy, a kebab, chicken kiev, a full breakfast... Literally everything you can't get here, I wanted. And I went home and ate it all.
I had been eating good and working out so good the weeks before I left all for it to go to waste when I went home... but was so worth it.
So firstly, some idiot mucked our flights up and we ended up missing our flight to Glasgow (where my mum was headed to get us). So we flew into Edinburgh instead and Owain came to the rescue, picked up my mum, picked up us and then took us to Glasgow to get our rental. Love you pal. Oh also our suitcases didn't get on the same flight as us, so we had to go get them the next day from Edinburgh.
(Shoutout to Allie for letting me wear her undies)
Eilidh meeting the rest of my family was the cutest thing. I thought she was going to get mega stranger danger, cause she went through a bad spell of that a few weeks ago, but she was amazing! We walked in and my papa starts beaming as he's talking to her. Then we walk in and my gran sees us and starts to cry. Their first great grandchild!
One of my sisters knew we were coming, but Allie didn't. So we hid behind the couch and Allie and her friends walked in and I popped Eilidh's head up and Allie started to scream! I don't know how they kept it all a secret from her.
The next day, we surprised my Gran and Grampa Moonie. My cousin Fiona just had a baby, Lilia, a month after Eilidh and they live in London, so they thought they were going to my aunties house to meet Lilia. So we knock at the door and my gran goes "oh it's another baby" then pauses and goes "OH it's Joanna and Nathan!" and my grampa runs through from the kitchen. They both looked so shocked, tbh I was scared one of them was going to have a heart attack, but all was good don't worry peeps. Eilidh and Lilia played for so long and were just obsessed with each other. Apparently just before we came in, they were saying how lovely it would be to have Eilidh and Lilia together and BOOOOOM there we were.
It was so good to be home, be with family and friends. We weren't there for long enough to get to see everybody we wanted to. But it was better than nothing.
I never thought next time we went, we'd be roaming around with our daughter.
We went back to my home ward for church and that was when it all set in - I was back where it all began, where I was baptised, where I learned life lessons and where I met some of the most amazing people, including where I met Nathan. I say this in almost every post, but none of this was just because of me. It was all God's plan. I just listened and follow.
Thomas S. Monson said "of this be sure: you do not find the happy life, you make it."
Tbh I think I done both. I found the gospel and then made happy life according to His plan.
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