12/26/12


Day after Christmas

It was a good Christmas, I think this year Christmas came quite easy, there was no stress, no last minute shopping, no big meals to prepare, not lots of parties to go to, nop, it was about us, in our new home, with my parents, friends and joy.

Your dad had a little scare and ended up at the hospital on the 24th in the morning, it was nothing and besides a big bill that will get, your dad is healthy and I think he just needs to take it easy for a while.

Sometimes we just get caught up in a day to day, work, home, school, kids, hubby, wife and  day after day the goal is simple but difficult: enjoy every day while keeping the sanity. Problem is sometimes, you have to lose the sanity, complain a little and say out loud: I am tired and stressed out. I think your father and me try so hard to keep our lives in harmony that we tend to forget that is actually something really hard to do.

So after a few hours in emergency, we were back home to enjoy the rest of the day, eat good food, have a few drinks and see how 2 and 5 years old see Christmas (an awesome happy jolly holiday).

We did our UNICEF donation too, I let you chose what you wanted to donate, which was milk and a soccer ball. I hope that the idea that Christmas is just to receive is not true as is more about giving that receiving. You did good, you were happy you were giving a soccer ball to kids so they could play, I felt proud of you.

Love,
Mom

2/1/12

Y luego vino la realizacion de que esto es vida...

Ya han pasado meses desde que vendimos la casa, meses desde que vivimos con Halmonee y meses de estar planificando la proxima movida. Matthew tu no paras de decirnos que quieres mudarte a Houston, tu padre y yo solo podemos reafirmarte que tus aspiraciones tambien son las nuestras. Andrew todavia esta perdido en el espacio, pero a veces siento que el mismo se desespera con la situacion.

Muchas cosas en mi trabajo han cambiado, algunas oportunidades se han ido y otras han emergido. Con estas oportunidades viene pression, stress, esfuerzo, tiempo y cansacion pero tambien se llega a tener esperanzas de una mejor vida, mejor oportunidad.

Al final del dia... solo importa que somos nosotros, que seguimos juntos y con la mirada fija en la misma direccion.

Los queremos
Feb 2012

A Soccer Fanatic = a Soccer Mom