Well, I’m Esther. I’m the mom, or at least that’s what the evidence would suggest. There are enough photos of me pregnant and laboring and having freshly experienced the shock of having a real life human child pass through her birth corridor that would suggest that, I indeed, have birthed two children. Years later, they’re still here (actually, right over there), but I am only just now beginning to feel like less of a babysitter waiting for the parents to get home, and more like someone who could maybe actually be a mother.
Anyway, enough about me. My husband is Matt, the hardest worker, most driven and most visionary man that I have had both the most immensely challenging and immensely adventurous of lives with. He does all things zeros and ones, and runs all of the background and logistics of everyday life and operations. He is foundational.
And, we have kids. Two kids, and two cats. And, we don’t exactly “travel the world” but we do “live internationally.” The short story is, we met and got married in the States, moved to Thailand, went “home” to have a baby, moved to Spain, and we’ve recently bounced back to Thailand. The long story is much, much longer.
The point is, our lives have been more mobile than most and less stable than some. From cat passports and cat cafes to bad deals and Thai jails (oops, I wasn’t supposed to say that!), we have been around the world looking for the place we can call home. We’re looking to do it debt-free and ASAP, so we can get OUT of this matrix. So, our lives together has taken on a life of its own.
I like to write but I’m someone who never does anything twice because I’m always good the first time and always bad the second time. On the other hand, I don’t usually get things right the first try and often need a second go. Either way, I’ve realized, some things need to be done more than once and more than twice. So, I’m working on doing it twice. Maybe more.
Pardon my stream of consciousness in the night, but I thought I should introduce us, and just get it done, just do it twice, so I can do it a third time. We’ve got a story to tell and a journey to take, so let’s go.