3 and a half months later I've resurrected to the blog life. Again! Before that I was "dead" for 2 months... gosh it's hard to keep up this thing!
In any case, since my last few posts, we moved to Houston after Billy got a job as the associate pastor of the West Houston SDA Church. And we LOVE it! The big city, the shopping, the places to go and see and visit, the beaches close by, and of course having my parents and my brother just 15 minutes down the road :) Billy's loving his new church and being the associate pastor of ONE church. It's funny how people asks us, almost regretfully, how we like it. People from Merced would make comments about how hot it would be in Houston while we were having temperatures of over 100'F there! Can you say *reality check*!!
But see.. Billy grew up in Biloxi, MS which is hot AND humid. Just like here. I grew up in Barrancabermeja (Colombia) which is hot AND humid. Just like here. Yeah I had AC 99% of the time. But so do we here. AC at home. AC in the car. AC in the stores. You have AC everywhere! Sure you sweat a little more while you walk from the house to the car or from the car to the store, but so what?! It's not like I'm gonna melt... most of the time anyways... LOL
IMHO, California (most of it at least) is over-rated. Too expensive. Economically depressed. Cold water at the beach. No offense to all my dear friends who still live there. But after living in 4 states in 8 years, I've come to the conclusion that the 'greatness' of a place is defined mostly by the people you have around you and how much it suits your priorities.
For example, Berrien Springs. By far, the smallest and coldest place I've ever lived: 3 gas stations, 2 red lights, 1 taco bell and a winter that lasted almost 6 months of the year! The closest city was about 30 minutes drive and not the greatest shopping. 45-minute drive to find a decent restaurant and good shopping. But we had a small group every week in our house or someone else's house and parties almost every weekend. Our church was awesome. School was great. And we made life-long friends (for the most part). Regardless of how much snow was on the ground or how busy we were with school, we could call a few people, order some pizza and play some board games (canasta being our favorite ;). My point is, the people that you have around you are more important than the great weather or location or other things that may seem like great stuff to others.
And so, we are loving living in Houston!! Billy loves his church and job. Bella loves seeing her grandparents every week and I love the city and all there's to do and see - zoo, aquarium, museums, YMCA, beach, malls, scrapbook stores... the list is endless! :)
PD. To all my readers (B, mom, and the occasional random stranger) I promise I'll do better with my posting. Maybe once a week is a good goal. We shall see... :)
1 comment:
glad to see you are back! I stopped checking in for a while because I kept seeing father's day post! I am so glad that you are enjoying Houston. You are much more of a bigger city girl at heart? I think so. But you are right it is more about the quality of the people that you are around that defines a place. I would go back to our tiny apartment in Berrien springs as long as you and Billy, Heather and walter, Harmony and David, Mariam, Jimmy and Lindsey, and Tim and Megan, Emily, bubba, Steve Gussey and of course, Mocha etc would all be there to have fun times and share our experience with God. and I know that you had so many other friends. It was good to go hang out at the Gagers place. Everyone felt like it was home. That is why God impressed on you to buy a home while there. Once we all left there it has been so hard to try to recreate even a small portion of that with anyone. It is a lonely road once we are out in the "Parrish" is that why they called it that!? :) just a new observation.
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