A pigeon's life

So today I'm driving home from work and about 5 minutes into my drive I see a pigeon on the street right in front of me, sow I think... For sure it's gonna fly... And it didn't!! I was able to skip it thanks to my feline reflexes (hahaha) but the guy in back of me was not so lucky and was unable to avoid totally squishing the poor thing! Now I know a lot of people will say "oh well, it's just a pigeon", or "there's plenty of those to care" or "it was justice cause all they do is poop everywhere"... But I sincerely felt awful about it! It's not them in our territory it's been us always invading the poor animals habitat... Any way, rest in peace you poor pigeon who I shall call PJ!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Yes I know its a little late for that, but I think in general it's never too late for anything! Especially if you've been caught up and lost in time like me... I know we all say sometimes omg time just flu by me, well this time I'm not kidding... at all!! This year barely let me catch my breath before there was already something new and great happening to me!

I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR THIS WONDERFUL YEAR IN MY LIFE, I CAN SAY WITH ALL HONESTY THAT THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE.

This year I was able to finally live in my own home, the home that my hubby and I worked so hard to be able to buy.

My babygirl Naomi was born, eventhough she scared us a little when she was born, after a week she was perfectly well and at home with us!

My boy Saul was completely happy with his baby sister and still is!!

My hubby has been completely supportive of all the decisions I have made and has put up with all of my madness at all times!

I was able to live with my mom for 5 months, something I had not done in over 15 years... she is such a great person, I do hope that she is rewarded all her kindness and unconditional love as soon as possible!!

I was able to live with my sister for 7.5 months, the longest time I've spent with her in also over 15 years! She is more than a sister to me, she is my daughter, she is my friend, she is my confidant and so many other things for me, I love her so much and I'm glad to know that she loves me just as much!

I was able to visit and reconnect with friends that I had not seen for a very long time and to reenforce my love for those friends that I do see at least once a year.

I was able to be a stay home mom and start a new job without even looking for it. Ithink God was very wise in this matter, he knew this is something I needed and even though I didn't ask for it, he gently put it in my way... Thank you God!!

My relationship with my hubby had never been as steady and peaceful as now, NOT that it was a total wreck, not at all, but just became a lot more peaceful!! I love him so much and I'm so thankful he is in my life!!

This Christmas was spent with my side of the family, at my Grandpa's house; and due to a very emotinally hard time for one of my uncle's wife's family (she lost 6 family members this year) my cousins were very again... emotional, and one of them... Gaby put everything in her power to make sure that we all got together to spend this special time in each other's company, as the family she wanted and loves! We all made a X-mas card and chocolate exchange and we had to read it to the person who was given to you by drawing a name. Then we had to say like baby Jesus was born, what we wanted to be born in us for the upcoming year, and boy that was so beautiful, we all asked to be more patient... and I was the first one to speak and they all also added that they wanted to be more patient hahaha. Anyway, my cousins were very sad about the family members they had lost and so they pleaded for us to become closer because we never know when we are not going to be in this world any more; for us to tell each other all the times how much we love each other and how much we mean for one another. In short, I cried a lot, but the kind of crying that does a person good!! 

Again, this has been the best year of my life, and I hope it has also been this for you, and if not, to keep the hope that God will always be by your side and soon things will turn out for the best, we just have to wait for the right moment to come!!

Melancholy

Yes, what a "sad" name for my comeback!! but that's the way I'm feeling today!!

I was just reading my last blog and omg, I was only 2 months pregnant... now my baby is 8 months old, it was a girl!! 2nd Light of our lives!!

As expected, life has changed greatly all these past months... in my last blog I had just quit my job and now I find my self in a new job, 2 weeks ago I became an employee again.

BUT back to the subject, today I'm feeling very melancholic, it all goes down like this:
I had not planned coming back to work, the opportunity came out of no where and I took it, but just as hard as it was to quit in the first time, it is just as hard to come back, I had just accepted to be a house wife full time and life was good. but I think the trigger was that yesterday was my son's birthday... and nothing came out as planned, not that we had much of a plan to begin with. 

Because my hubby was going to come out of work late we decided to take him to Peter Piper Pizza, this covered his favorite food with games, what more could he ask for. Little did we think about that this place is located in one of the most transited parts of the city, it took like an hour to get there (on what should be a 20 min ride) so of course my son fell asleep!! I was like well its actually ok, he will wake up refreshed once we get there!! NOT, he didn't wake up at all, I guess he must have been super tired cause he woke up til today!! 
So my hubby who totally takes on traffic with a smile (NOOOOT), was just upset about the whole thing, telling me "well, if he was gonna go to sleep we shouldn't have came at all, with what purpose", etc etc...) as if I knew this was going to happen!! 


Next to my job there is a daycare center, and I can hear the kids singing and laughing and even crying all day long, and it just really made me sad to think that I can not be with my kids right this minute!!! My little princess gets so excited when I come home and I just want to squeeze her!! and my little boy... lights up as soon as he sees me walk in the door.


I guess right now all I feel like doing is going home and hugging and kissing my kids!!

Its been a while!!

Wow it has been a long time since I've been here... lots to tell.

My life has changed so much in the past few weeks...

1. I'm no longer an employee of anyone, I decided to become a full time mom and wife... it was a big decision that my hubby and I came to and we did it thinking about the well being of our son and... the one who is about to come... yes omg I'm prego!!

2. I'm 2 months prego and the only thing wrong is that I'm completely exhausted 99.9% of the time... it's like I was out for a whole month at a time with no sleep and now I'm paying for it.

3. Saul has started pre school and he is loving it, he sings all this songs, he says all these lines like "mommy, be careful. OR mommy, are you ok? OR mommy are you hungry, do you want to eat something?" HE IS SOOO CUUUTE.

Any way, I will try to post more often, hopefully I can stay awake haha!!

Anniversary

TODAY four years ago was my wedding day... HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY SWEETHEART!!

It all started 6 years ago... our love grew and grew and then... our engagement!!


Finally everything was set, date, place, guests... Our Wedding Day!!




THANK YOU MY LOVE FOR THIS 4 YEARS OF ALL SORTS OF EXPERIENCES AND FEELINGS, I'M HAPPY TO HAVE SHARED THEM WITH YOU!!

Yes, lets be honest, I know I'm not 100% sweet all the time so, thank you Em for sticking with me, for comforting me when I need it, for listening to me whine when I feel like it, for loving me despite everthing aaaaand for giving a lovely son!!

Bit about Saul

haha so here is a little bit about my grown up son the 2 year old!!

he has always had this mature sense to him, well I guess all parents believe our kids to be this genious brains in all their actions, and they just crack me up. Saul has been replying to us with this grown up sentences leaving papa and I in awe!

a while ago we went to "Ma-Mart" = Wal-Mart one of Saul's favorite place to visit (haha) and he found this Car's themed cup as we were headed to the cashier so his daddy sees him with it and says, "no Saul, I have no money to pay for that" to which Saul responds: "no problem, I will pay for it!" - now how did he know he could pay for it, he is only 2 and of course the fact that he had no money... haha

last Saturday Saul was watching one of his fav movies "Fu fu Panda" = Kung Fu Panda, and well as usual he was all into it making the moves and noises of the movie, and it was time for dinner, we WERE gonna go out to eat so we tell him "Saul, lets go, its time for dinner, we're going out!" to which he responds "no I don't want to - please!" (cause yeah we tell him for everything he must say please and only when he says please he gets what he wants) and I say "No Saul, I'm hungry, lets go now" to which he responds "just make yourself an egg mommy!!" - WELL there you go, go make yourself something and leave me alone!! haha sorry but who orders who around? I'm confused!

on Monday he tells my aunt (she babysits him - oh thank you sweet lady!) "I want some juice please" to which she replys "sure, let me get you some", she hands him the cup while she gets the juice out of the fridge and before she is done he says "why are you giving me this cup, its empty!!"


Kids, really really I do, love him!!

Bit about being rich

Who doesn't want to be rich? I know I do, but I generally don't think about weather I have money or not, I think I live a good life with what I have and the people Friends&Family in my life...

But my hubby has this one friend who is RICH and is the son of a Richer Man and the grandson of an even Richer Man... Last weekend this rich family took a trip to Playa del Carmen, a paradisiac place in Mexico... it was the Granpa's 85th birthday and HE invited ALL his family on a trip for 1.5 wks at Playa del Carmen... for every guest room that was occupied for 5 nights or more, they received $1,500 USD Cash Back!! and well yeah, they were all there at least for 5 nights... but gosh, he invited over 30 people to his Bday bash and well, just do the math, too many digits for me!! (Pictures from the actual hotel where he stayed).



I'm human and of course my eyes were bulged out and my mouth was wide open when I heard of all these wonderful things they did while at the beach, all inclusive, wine, the sun, the beach, spa - massages, ooh I so want to be a part of that Rich Family!! But honestly, after a few minutes, I started thinking about all this money, and about how many poor people could benefit from all this... I have nothing against rich people but my little head sometimes can't wrap around the idea that some people are so wealthy and others don't have a crum to eat...

So I ask my self, and you... what can we do to help those that need us? Let's think...

oh what to post..

I had a great weekend, not because I did all this wonderful out of the norm things but because I enjoyed the things I did, on Saturday evening we went to a birthday party at a park, and Saul just loved getting on the slides all day long... the great thing about this was hearing him LAUGH as he slid down.

Sunday I went to visit my grandpa and aunt who live in a farm, it has been raining a lot so everything is perfectly green and just looks faboulous, Saul loves playing on the back porche and that is where we spent most of our day, running around pushing leaves and just having fun... I took a few pictures with my phone's camara but I can't find my phone's software to download them so, I found this pictures at www.apartmenttherapy.com and I loved this gypsy wagons... they would have been great on Sunday...

And this other one:

Bit about crashing III

This one crash anecdote is Kat's favorite:

I live on a street that over the past year or so has became an avenue with a stop light at the corner and the whole deal. So, it was morning time on that particular day for some reason my hubby was at home and I did have to go to work, also my uncle who lives in Austria was at the house visiting on vacation...
anyway, I get ready for work and I get into my car, open the gate and start backing out, slowly, not even pressing on the gas, just letting the car go smoothly, there was no car on the street, I could back out freely... and I turn to my left to see my coworker who I used to carpool with and I say hi and wave when all of a sudden, OH-OH I bump into something, I look at my rear view mirror and I see a beige Lincoln Navigator behind me!! My blood drops to my feet and I guess color abandoned me, I immediately get out of the car to see what I had just done and see to my great surprise that NOTHING HAD HAPPENED, my bumper stopped against the Lincoln's tire and a wave of relief washes over me, when all of a sudden I start hearing a big man saying: "you stupid bi*ch look what you did, aren't you looking at where you're going?"
Me, eyes hanging out say: "I'm so sorry sir, I didn't see you, but look, no harm was done"
- Man - well yeah no harm was done, no thanks to you you stupid bi*ch
- Me - excuse me but there is no need to get nasty, I'm telling you I'm sorry and that nothing happened, what else do you want?
- Man turns to my coworker (a wimpy guy haha) - and you, you idiot, why don't you tell her that there is a car behind her, you are looking at me, and looking at her back out and you don't say anything?
- Coworker - Me? Why me?
-Man turns back to me - so why don't you see where you're going, what if it hadn't been the tire? you bi*ch, you idiot and just about any bad word he could remember, he said, and occasionally turned to my coworker to call him an idiot to what he always replied: - Coworker - Me? Why me?

Finally, after the man gets tired of cussing at me he gets back into his truck, rolls down the passenger window and cusses at me some more, to which I reply - Me - What else do you want? Just leave!!
- Man - What if I don't want to leave you stupid bi*ch, etc etc etc
- Me - Well then you know what FU*K YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
- Man - oh yeah (he gets out of the car, goes around to my passenger's side and kicks the mirror off my car... OH YEAH!! that thing flew like 6 feet into the air and landed on the middle of the street, he got back on his truck and said...) what are you going to do about that? go ahead and call the police you !#!$&"%$#%/&%/&%(/$%&/(&%)%/()=&(=/$%&"$#%! #"$%!"#$!"# $!"#$!"#& /%/$%)%=$%&"%!$! "#$!"#$!"##$.

At that moment I was speechless because the man got out of his car to hit me, but the way we were positioned he could not get to me because a tree was on my left side of the car and my front was against the closed gate, my back against his truck so I was in a small square at the center... he kept cussing at me for a while and finally took off.

I was left SO freakingly MAD, I felt so much impotence and I couldn't believe my coworker only said "me, why me??" that idiot!! I drove to work and cried all the way because I was just speachless, overwhelmed and worried, what if he went to look for me some other day to make a bigger deal out of things? what if he tried to do something while I had Saul with me who was only a couple months old back then?

When I got home that day my hubby and my uncle were like "why didn't you call us? we could have gone outside to help you" and I was like yeah sure I should have told the man "wait a minute, let me knock on my door to get my hubby out here so HE CAN KICK YOUR ASS!! Right!!". But I do agree with them and anyone who I told this to that my coworker should have at least tried to calm the beast down, or for him to have knocked on the door or just DONE SOMETHING.

This has definitely been my worst crashing experience and I hope that man gets what he deserves one of these days!!

No More Daycare!!

After our little disagreement with the Nurse at Daycare yesterday, I complained to my aunt about how unhappy we are with this woman's attitude and she tells me these sweet words (music to my ears) "Well forget about those bi*ches I can take care of him again, he is a big boy who can do things on his own now and I don't have to carry him around all the time, so leave him with me!!" I was like "are you sure, cause I will take you up on that!!" and she replied "yes I'm sure, leave him here"...

A bit of history - my aunt took care of Saul ever since he was about 2 months old, when my maternity leave ended from work, and she took care of him up to nine months ago, when she was told she had to undergo cervical spine surgery - at that moment my very first worry was for her to be ok because she was told if she didn't have the surgery she could be left paralyzed from her neck down at any moment; and Secondly, where would I take my son? That is why we took him to this daycare near my house. Which honestly he never really liked, he was there for 9 months and he cried everyday he was dropped off, they had told me 2 months at most was ok, but even they "couldn't" explain why he still cried. From the moment he went into daycare he was in potty training and never did he spend a full day without wetting his pants!! We tried everything: rewards/punishments after desperation and nothing worked...

AND guess what was his gift to me yesterday? His first actual daycare drop out day?? HE went potty all day long by himself!!

When I went to pick him up at my aunts house last night she told me in the morning he told her he didn't want to wear a diaper any more... so she took it off, and from then on, when he wanted to go potty he told her "Abu - pipi" and ran to the restroom, pulled down his pants, went pipi, pulled his pants up and washed his hands, ALL ON HIS OWN!!! That is just a triple reward for me!! No more nasty nurse seeing, no more pooped undies AND no more buying diapers, YAAAY!! (the funny side: he can't really make it all fall into the toilet bowl but that's okay!! hahaha I think I might have to spend this weekend cleaning my aunt's restroom!!)