Coming to California again was like finally being able to breathe after holding my breath for a long time. Looking at the palm trees and feeling the delicious warm air on my face, I knew right away that I was home. 

Since we were only going to be here for ‘quote on quote’ a couple weeks, we decided to rent a condo in a beautiful neighborhood, that only had three bedrooms in it. We thought that since it wouldn’t be that long, the minimum space wouldn’t be such an issue. Joke was on us on that one.

Though life seemed perfect in the moment, I didn’t know that extremely hard times were coming…

(To Be Continued)