Ever since I moved to Tallahassee, I thought maybe I can start a blog called, "From Cali..." and so on. That's where I am from. Well, most of my life. Born in North Carolina during my father's last year at grad-school and my parents moved back to the Philippines shortly afterwards. After 5 years or so, they moved to California's Manilla town, Daly City, San Francisco. Moved around Daly City a few times and the summer of '97 my parents got sick of the city life and moved to suburbia and settled down in Fairfield, nearby wine country. I moved to Berkeley to live with a lifelong spiritual companion and commuted to San Francisco to go to school or as I used to say sheepishly, "I went to a private art school." For some reason I felt it was insignificant, maybe since I lived with a bunch of genius people I felt inferior, although they never made me feel such.
Okay, ten years following, met an awesome man at a 2-year Bible school, got married, and the Lord gave us 3 beautiful children within a span of 5 years of marriage. It's been a major adjustment. Every other year I was either pregnant or packing to move. Cost of living is ridiculous in Cali, and we were done w/ moving every year for financial reasons. We were ready to settle down for a little bit and we prayed for about 3 years to see where the Lord would move us. My husband, Philip, applied for jobs and got plenty of offers everywhere in the country but we had a sense about Tallahassee. He got 3 offers here. Anyways, point is, we moved here and after a rough start, we got a house and can finally say, "We're home." Although I miss my family and friends tremendously, it's been a great experience here for us. Our closest friends moved here to raise their children alongside us and to primarily pursue the Lord together. The slower pace is perfect for us at this time in our life.
Our babysitter came for her first day today, which means it's my first day to figure out what I'm going to do next. My 4 year old daughter is in pre-school. The two younger boys have a steady schedule now, especially the 11 month old, finally! And Philip is finally open to the idea for me to work. Now, how do I get back to the swing of working? Someone tell me. In the meantime, I'll work on my portfolio, learn a little about web design, network, update my Pinterest boards and blog.
