Well, here we are.
I started blogging in 2009 while awaiting bar results and looking for a job (and while I stood at a display table in a grocery store making a few extra bucks and being bored out of my mind). I needed something to do to keep me from going crazy, and sharing my random thoughts with the world seemed like a good way to accomplish that.
This blog started out as pretty random: I write about whatever is on my mind, whether that be chocolate, my dreams and aspirations, my questions about life, cooking, random stuff I do to entertain my boys, or my most recent attempt at exercising. Like I said: random :) Most recently I’ve been focusing mainly on books I’m reading, because that’s become a thing for me, and it seems to be what is quickest for me to write about with limited free time.
I guess you clicked on this tab to know a little about the author, so here you go: my mother was born in Guatemala and came to the US when she was about five years old. My grandmother raised six children on her own, and did an amazing job raising all of them, as well as a few grandchildren along the way. My father is from the US, and I’m his exact replica. This means that although I speak fluent Spanish, it always takes people by surprise because I look way too white to speak fluent Spanish. I recently connected with my father and his family, none of whom I’d met until 2016.
I went to UCSB for undergrad, then Chapman for law school. I married the love of my life in 2009. Jeff quit his job during the pandemic to be able to care for our boys, and eventually pursue his passions of art and photography once distance learning and infants doesn’t take up his entire day. I work in the purchasing department for our local school district, but always looking for ways to find personal satisfaction in what I do. We have three amazing boys: Jacob (born in 2013), Joshua (born in 2016), and Jonathan (born in 2019). The “J” thing was not intentional until the third one. And although they drive us absolutely insane at any given moment, they also bring us to tears with pride and joy and love and happiness. Daily. It’s a freakin rollercoaster, guys.
I try to be pretty open and honest on this little platform I’ve created, so the occasional foul language may come along in a post or two. It’s not meant to offend anyone, simply to keep things as real as they are in my mind. I like to think that my writing has improved along the years, so this blog is also an exercise in that: using words to entertain, inform, share, and hopefully make you smile on occasion.
Disclaimers, which should be obvious from the above paragraphs: I use “haha” instead of “LOL,” and I use exclamation points and smiley faces liberally.
Enjoy!
Our other endeavors:
Finca Cielo Azul 