A Family New Year | Forty Something Parents

We moved to the island last year…on a wing and a prayer; hoping we could make it work, blind to the struggles we would face. Because of many financial hardships and our rather modest (to put it nicely) means, we’ve learned to become quite creative with how we entertain our toddler. Free family fun is the norm for us; a very simplistic way of island life. It has made us better people and parents…all-the-more.

Now, with the holidays behind us, we have welcomed our first new year as full-time Islanders. And because we love the ocean and the beach so…we felt compelled to go shelling at one of our favorite family-friendly spots along the coast. This particular stretch of Galveston Beach is a place we have come-to-call ‘Nixi’s Pirate Play Park’. In our opinion, and Baby’s, it is the best little park on the island! We highly recommend it to any visitor or local.

The first day of this new year might’ve been a bit dreary, but we didn’t mind! To us, it was a mystical and adventurous family outing of treasure hunting and shelling along the big seashore: so many discoveries we made that day! It was a time–a memory–of new beginnings and priceless moments that we pray 2014 will bring even more of…to our little tribe.

Blessings & .V.. to you and yours in this New Year…and always!

GVR