Goodbye San Jose, it’s been real

We’ve lived in San Jose since 2005. We moved here as young parents of a seven, five and three year old. It was terrifying moving to a town/state where we didn’t know anyone or had any idea where to live. Fast forward 17.5 years later, I look back at all the blessings San Jose has given me and my family.

Thank you San Jose for providing me opportunities I could never have imagined. I was blessed enough to be able to be a full time stay@home mom. Being a very active mom of three very active kids has given me times of being a soccer mom, football mom, basketball mom, swim team mom, cross country mom, wrestling mom, baseball mom*, waterpolo mom, band mom, volleyball mom… you name it, my kids did it and I was so lucky to be a part of all of it! I had the chance of being president of a little league and a home&school club, starting an anti-bully program in a middle school (that is still running!). My motto for volunteering was “How hard could it be?” And I loved every minute of it.

Thank you San Jose. After all the mom years, I was able to return to my career. Never would I have imagined being offered a Returnship opportunity at one of the coolest companies in the world, making the coolest product! The last 3.5 years working for Apple has given me so much joy. Being a stay@home mom, I put my personal goals and needs in the back seat. For the first time in a long time, I was able to pick up where I left off as a firmware engineer and accomplish a set of personal goals just for me!

Looking back at the last 17.5 years, things weren’t always perfect. At times things were flat out difficult, but God has been great to me and my family and blessed all our years in San Jose.