Pleasure To Meet You!
I’m so excited about this inaugural post, that I don’t know exactly what to say! It’s exactly like a first impression…I can make it or break it right here and now.
I plan to make it.
I’m willing to bet that a good portion of the population has been to the beach before. Common beach activities? Building sandcastles, looking for seashells, swimming, and jumping waves. And that’s my segue, folks!
My family loves the beach. My husband spent his first 5 years living near the beach. I have always had a never-ending fascination with the ocean (side note: I wanted to become a marine biologist who studied humpback whales, but changed my career choice when I realized I would have to leave my current land-locked state!) If you didn’t know better, you’d think my daughter was born and raised a beach bum. And my son, well, he’s finally getting past the “icky” sand feeling, and enjoying getting completely soaked in the surf!
Let me continue to introduce ourselves. I’m Jessica, wife to Brett and mom to Emma and Mason. I’m an Arizona native, and don’t see myself leaving anytime soon. I was a teacher for a short time until I got pregnant with Emma. I met Brett through a mutual friend of ours. It was my first year teaching…I was fresh out of college! He was several years older with a career in the family business and his own house (his own house was so cool to me!). Brett’s almost a native. He has always said that the only way we can live at the beach is if he can have a house right on the beach and not have to work. So like I said, we’ll be staying here for a long time. Emma expanded our family in 2004. She is this adorable toe-headed-blue-eyed little girl. We didn’t ever know something was really wrong with her until she had a flu-bug and we went to the ER for (what we thought was) fluids. That ER trip landed us in the PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) for a week. I will delve into that topic in a post to come soon. And Mr. Mason completed our family in 2006. He is 3 and into all sorts of trouble. Whoever said that it should be called the “terrible 3′s” was right! He’s a stinker and right now enjoys challenging our authority. I think the key word here is challenging. That is my family in a nutshell (or seashell, ha!!).
I can’t wait to continue on my writing journey with you! I’m probably going to leave you with some questions….like “what’s the point?” I’ll get there…I promise! For now, feel free to comment if you like…I would love to hear what you have to say! (The other night, when I had all these blog ideas popping into my brain, I dreamt that I received 72 comments on my first post! <hint, hint>)
