00:00Welcome home!
00:06You're out of home!
00:09I looked around and I was just, wow, these people really love us.
00:13This is real family. This is showing up.
00:18I had to give up my house. It's not like I just sold it happily.
00:21I cried hard over leaving that house.
00:23When I say it hurt, I mean in the depth of my soul.
00:29If I put a picture to it, I was probably deteriorating from the inside out.
00:35I reached a point where I decided to be sober.
00:39I realized that I had a problem with the way that I was avoiding my feelings.
00:43I was going through a breakup.
00:45I got to a financial point where, because I had changed over my career,
00:48I ended up having to sell my house.
00:50It seemed like everything was falling apart.
00:52I cried hard over leaving that house.
00:54I homeschooled for the first year in a camper after I sold my house.
00:57And that was a season of isolation that I absolutely had to be in.
01:01And I decided that we were actually going to move to Alabama.
01:04We had been thinking about it, talking about it.
01:06A couple weeks later, we load up a U-Haul, drive to Alabama,
01:10get there at 9 o'clock at night with the U-Haul, walk in,
01:13and there are roaches all over the walls when I turn the light on.
01:19And I don't mean a couple of roaches or a few roaches.
01:22I mean all over the floor, all over the walls, tiny ones, big ones.
01:27It makes me itch just thinking about it.
01:30I just went home or came back to Joe's house in despair.
01:34I sat in my car and cried for a long time.
01:37At one point, I went, God, what are you doing?
01:39But now all her stuff is stuck in a U-Haul.
01:42Luckily, it was right up the street from my dad's house.
01:45So we put her stuff in my parents' basement.
01:47I still was not hopeful.
01:49I was like, OK, well, now I'm going to have to buy or order another U-Haul
01:53and drive all the way back to North Carolina.
01:55This just took all my money.
01:57Our other friend Alex, she had asked the family friend, like,
02:00hey, is there any way we can bypass a wait list?
02:02And then she called me one day and she said, hey, I think that Macy's going to get the house.
02:07I don't want to say anything to her yet because I want it to be a surprise.
02:10And I put everybody in a group chat and I was just like, hey, what do y'all think?
02:13Since if it does work out, we can come together and move her into her home.
02:18And everybody agreed.
02:20And within two days, we had had her moved in.
02:23We have gotten so much done, but we're crashing hard.
02:27Alex has been going for about 15 or 16 hours.
02:30And I've been going for about 12 with a few hours of sleep.
02:33Macy, we are here cleaning your new house in Alabama.
02:36And we just want to say that we cannot wait for you to get here.
02:40I told her, hey, Alex, her brother has moved out of the house.
02:46And while we're waiting on the approval, do you want to just go look at the house?
02:51She opens the door and we're here.
02:56Welcome home!
02:59I looked around and that support.
03:01Just the idea like everybody's here just so we can see this house.
03:05You know, wow, these people really love us.
03:06This is real family.
03:08And I was so grateful that I was already emotional.
03:11And I didn't even know that they have moved our stuff in the house.
03:17This is so beautiful.
03:19You made it to Alabama.
03:21You have home.
03:23Yay!
03:25What is happening?
03:27I love you guys.
03:30Gracie's like, what is happening?
03:31Hey, Macy.
03:32This is your house.
03:33You don't have anything in Dad's basement.
03:36I'm so glad you live here.
03:37Macy, turn around.
03:40That's when I was like, wait.
03:43I saw my pictures.
03:44I saw some of my decorations.
03:46I saw my little signs that had come out of my house that I had sold.
03:49Nothing in the world could have taken my joy in that moment.
03:51Look at all.
03:56Well, young lady, go look at you.
04:04This is yours and Gracelyn's room.
04:12Oh, my God.
04:18Living 20 minutes from your best friend and raising kids with your best friend is talk to your motherhood.
04:26It really is.
04:26I'm no longer in an isolation season.
04:29I'm no longer alone.
04:30I'm no longer afraid of what the future looks like.
04:32I'm waking up every day going, thank you, God, for what you've given us.
04:37Now let's take on the day, you know?
