Writing from the Pensacola Airport + SITS Tribe Building Challenge Day 2

I am a part of the SITS Tribe Building Challenge and I want to make it easy for my TRIBE members to find my social media links every day of the challenge.

So, dear ones - my Pinterest Profile is right here: Julie Jordan Scott on Pinterest

Meanwhile - I am writing at the Pensacola International Airport. I am waiting to board my plane back to Bakersfield after visiting my daughter, Beyunca, and her new son, Jaxon. I miss them even now. Being a first time Granny I didn't know what it would be like to fall in love with my Grandbaby but head over heels I am!

I feel like I have many blog posts to write from the entire Florida Panhandle experience. I've been exhilarated during much of it, but I also have had many thought provoking moments.

I have never traveled in the Deep South as an adult. This morning I drove a bout eight miles into Alabama and I might as well have been traveling to another world.

Yesterday I climbed 177 steps up a lighthouse that was first put into use in 1859 and is STILL in use today.

I went to a Mardi Gras parade, I saw lots of glorious beaches, sunrises and sunsets. I visited cemeteries - its one of my quirky things. I saw a huge plantation and spent moments communing with the Florida State Bird.

I snuggled and hugged and fed and burped and changed diapers.

I thanked some very young Marines for their service. I ate Irish food and Barbeque and fried green beans. I passed on the fried pickles.

I laughed and I cried. I asked the baby's pediatrician a lot of questions.

Beyunca and I told stories and shared memories and laughed and laughed and laughed.

I miss my other babies even more now.

For those of you who are young moms, treasure every moment of your children's lives. It's impossible to spoil them with love, it is overindulgence that does that - there is a difference. Speak to them with care and respect and they will speak to you with care and respect.

Thanks for reading my rambling blather. I hope on the plane I can sort some of my thoughts... I promise most of my blog posts are usually much more thoughtful than this!

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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