San Angelo Apartment

Chick-fil-A is very good to us and takes care of locating, renting, and setting up our housing at each assignment. If an apartment is not ready in time for your arrival, you'll get placed in a hotel until it's available. When you are living in a hotel, you get a daily food stipend. We had that Saturday-Wednesday the first week. San Angelo is a bit smaller then most towns so there is a shortage of corporate housing available. We can't be too choosy. The places they find for us are fully furnished, similar to beach vacation rentals, so we basically travel with our clothes, a few toys, and maybe a box of personal items such as books - or in my case - more baby items.  Here's a glimpse of where we're staying now. And you'll get the full effect because I didn't tidy up anything for these pictures. Living messy like this just has to happen sometimes (like when you battle 3 types of sicknesses in one week!)

Walking in the front door

  

Dinning/living 

 

Extra office space

 

View into the kitchen

Kitchen. I try not to spend too much time in here...

 

 Second floor master

Shared bathroom

Carmen's Room

The cutest part of the house

So there it is! I'll spare you a picture of the outside of the complex, I don't want you to worry about us. :) From pictures, you might think this is a great place - and in some aspects it is. But once you actually start living in the space, it is not my cup of tea. These units were built in the 60s and when we moved into this place it was filthy. Michael and I spent the whole night deep cleaning it. It was like someone didn't even try to clean it for new tenants. I can't let my babies live in dirt like that. So Michael rented a steam cleaner and cleaned all the carpets, upholstery and stairs while I dusted, vacuumed, mopped twice to get the black residue off our feet, deep cleaned the moldy, hairy bathroom, etc. I hated it. This should not be our normal experience with the company, but because there's nowhere to relocate us, we need to make the best of it. It's gotten better this past week and I'm grateful to not be in a hotel any longer.

Chick-fil-A provides Michael with his own rental car at every location so we sold his car before moving here. He also gets perks like cell phone coverage, a company iPad, home visits (for all of us!), and some other helpful things. It's a really great opportunity for him! We'll find out around Christmas if we're staying here another month or if we're leaving. And if we're staying here, we'll also find out if we're staying in this apartment another month or moving. It can always change. Can't get too comfortable yet. We're heading up to Oklahoma for Christmas to be with family so we're really excited for that! We'll miss our mommies and daddies and siblings a ton this year though, hopefully we won't have to do this more than 1 or 2 Christmases!