Milo's Birthday and others

3 years ago I gave birth to my Milo, my crazy green eye curly hair girl...what can I say Milo you are funny, moody, kind, lovable, smart, mean...you are full of surprises...so far you have being the more challenging for me.  Nenes as you will learn with time mami has LOTS LOTS of patience...but Milo you have push my patience many many times.....I love that about you..and I know you and I would always be power girls like we call ourselves now.

Next week hopefully we would have a little party here at home, I don't like to celebrate birthdays before their birth day...I know I am crazy and full of crap in my head but that is crazy mami.  

The other day while at Walmart I found this bouncy thing and I figure let me buy it is inexpensive and I can set it up in the house...specially with Samia in mind..nena you don't walk you run, for some reason you can not stay still you are always jumping and running...I am so happy that I did purchase it Samia you love that to the point of even falling asleep in there.

Amir you are getting so handsome..although many people say you look allot like baba I think you look allot like me...once again you have another ear infection it looks like you would be getting tubes...I am a bit scared but I think is necessary.  You got another 2 teeth the top ones...you have learn to bite already with those four little teeth.

Nenes mami ha estado un poquito trizte estos dias nenes nunca se les olvide que la vida is not an easy one, we always encounter many bumps in our lives sometimes leaving a little sour taste, but always remember that God only gives us what he knows we can handle, don't ever give up always try your best and stick to your beliefs...don't let other change your position once you have made up your mind, be open to advice and take it into consideration but don't change because others want you to change.

Homemade Ravioli dessert laundry

On Sunday baba took off and I decided to cook homemade ravioli I had never made it in my life and I figure that I should give it a try.  It was easier than I expected, we all love it...great thing to keep frozen for a fast meal.

The recipe for the dough I took from here  I look around for a while but all of them asked for so many eggs that made me sick so the one I found with the least amount of eggs I too.  For the filling I just came out with it myself using leftover chicken from the day before and some ricotta cheese with parsley nothing fancy.

BASIC RAVIOLI DOUGH

150 Ravioli (8 to 10 servings)
3-1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt 3 whole beaten large eggs
2-1/2 tablespoons cooking oil
1/2 cup of lukewarm water

Sift flour in large bowl, make a well in center and add salt, oil, eggs and water. Mix liquid and flour gradually until absorbed. Place dough on floured board and knead dough thoroughly for 3 to 5 minutes until dry and smooth. (Add more flour if dough is still sticky). Cover and set aside 10 to 15 minutes. 

Nenas when you do this, when you are ready to start stretching it make sure you cut it two pieces of the same size one for the bottom one for the top..and make sure to make it very thin.

As you can see it takes allot of playing with the dough like I tell las nenas and stretching and stretching

I tried so much making a rectangle but is not easy or  maybe because I am not so savvy, but hopefully I will finally learn.

Yes nenes mami's raviolis have all shapes circles, triangles, squares etc.

Now that I know how to make the pasta I will venture more with the filling.

After a great Sunday this is what my Monday looks like....I hate laundry with a passion...specially folding and putting it away so I usually start early Monday and as the day progresses I accumulate all the folded clothes in the dinning table by the time is time for dinner I have already finish and I am ready to put everything away.....I miss Abu when she is home she always does my laundry she knows I hate it and I cook since I know she does not really care for the kitchen.

Random pensamientos

I love this time of the year nenes so many things to look forward to.  Like wearing sweaters, scarves, hats and just feeling that cold air hit your face...I know I am in the south but we still feel compare to south Florida.

I have always being a person that gets affected by the weather, when I wake up and I see the bright sun starting to peek it gives me energy to have a full energetic day...although is not like I can stay in bed when is gloomy outside I wish but I don't think I have ever done well maybe when I lived in NY and I did stayed home...not many times but yes nenes it did happen, nobody said Mami was perfect...  Is funny now days I hear"Mami you are the best mami"  all the time is so uplifting even if that day I feel like shit my little nenas make me feel like I am a rock start.

Nenes always remember we can make people very Happy by telling them how much we love them and how proud we are of them...Words sometimes count more than actions being caring is something I am trying and would try my best to teach nenes.  

Samia you are so caring today you wake up extra early and came and cuddle in my bed and you said some stuff that made me so proud of you.

S - Mami can Santa bring me a Little Pony Guitar

M - Nena I don't think they have little pony Guitar

S - Mami like the princess that we bought for the gift I will be happy with that one.

S - Mami you think I can get my sewing machine so I can make some clothes

M - For who your bears or your dolls

S - My bears, Mami I dont really like dolls not even those fancy ones I only like Carmelita because you made it and is special

M - Thank you nena, I made it with allot of love

S - Mami can you make me  a bigger one so I can make it some skirts

M - Yes amor

S - Mami are you going to buy me fabric or you can let me borrow your fabric.

Samia you are so polite and so caring please don't change and always remember girls have to be feminine and caring is our essence that is what makes us unique.

Gamila lately you being a bit difficult more like you test me and push my limits...nenes even though I scream and raise my voice I have never being mad I think the best Way to reprehend you guys is before I get mad because when we are mad we can say and do things that are not correct..but Milo lately you have push me so much that I get mad and that I don't like...hopefully is just a tough week.  Inshallah

Amir what can I say I am starting to have to chase you because your style of crawling is a weird one but a very fast one.  You love to eat and smile...those eyes of yours talk.

Baba is not being easy here at home lately many things going on but his optimism is always a winner that can change around any situation.

Enough of spilling my brains out.

I forgot the tittle

The last couple of days we being having lots of rain around here so we have had our share of tea parties making it children tea parties and a bit grown up tea parties. Nenas you guy love to drink Tea Masala  with some nice alfajores.

Oh I forgot to mention sometimes am invited to their tea parties and I have to wear a crown and the truth I don't mind it is nice to be call princess and not mami!


You know nenes there are things that just never change the other day while I brush your hair after bath, I though for a while how much I hate to brush hair...and that starts by me there are times that I don't brush my hair after I  wash it  thank God I have straight hair. 

Is funny I am a mami now and very close to my 40's and the brush is not my friend at all.  Although I am trying to change by brushing las nenas hair everyday (but the truth is that it is not always like that)

The girls do allot of painting, I try for them to sit down and paint and come up with different ideas.  Samia is being working in a small book, I made it her a little book so she draws on it for a couple of days and then I sit down with her and she tells me a story of her book, is actually very interesting.

This week I being doing a bit of sewing specially since school starts tomorrow I CAN NOT WAIT----- I was thinking the other day if Abuela felt the same way when we were in vacation, a point when she could not wait till we would go back to school.. Sorry nenas you guys have not even made it to school yet and mami already has plans with Amir tomorrow!!!!

Here is a bit of the sewing I being working on.  I am trying to get rid of a bunch of fabric I have before I even think of buying more, I just don't want to be stuck with a bunch of fabric and feel guilty that I bought it and I never did anything, so not into I see my stash to Zero I will not be visiting the fabric store.


This time next week we would be in Miami I can not wait although I am going to miss baba I need the break, nenas one day you will understand that the only person I can trust my kids 100% with no worries is Abuela and of course baba well he does not count..so here comes 2 weeks of stress free kids.


Time is going so fast baba was talking to me yesterday and we came to realize the year is almost gone, that Samia is not a baby anymore, that Gamila is getting taller and skinny, that Amir is driving us crazy, and that in less than six months we would be in another house.  Is funny how in 30 minutes of talking to baba we touch so many subjects like

how much Samia looks like titi Mio

like Gamila is Palacio all the way 

how Amir is in love with me....

how Obama is full of crap so much promises and Zero done!!! 

How FACEBoook is a tool to help people make an ass of themselves! 

That the move and the trip to Colombia are a fact!  

That Abuelo would finally meet the kids!  

That Zetu and Guido left a month ago and that having the house for ourselves is nice...nenes always be truthful to yourselves and to those around you, there is no need to sugar coat the realities of life like that ...the inlaws in your house for a very long time can be felt as pest even us Mami and Baba can become a pain in the royal neck one day....That is why baba and I always say that when you guys get big and marry and move out we are going to buy a motor home so we can just park outside and visit.  

How I envy the fact baba puts his head in the pillow and falls asleep in No time

And to wrap up our weekend our Sunday ritual of flower picking to decorate our dinning table, the playroom table and living room...I just love seeing our roses is so rewarding...I am going to miss them when I leave this house.

Mami time

Yesterday I had a very nice day I felt I was 25 again in New York City, yes I went to see the much awaited movie Sex On The City 2..what can I say I did not think the movie was that great, too much glitter everywhere.  


However being at the movies by myself remind me how much fun I had when I was single and I will go to the movie theater in Time Square right next to the Wax Museum..yesterday I realize that I still enjoy sitting in the movie theater by myself and the truth is that I think I enjoy it more now than before maybe I treasure it more just some me time no phone no people moment of quite just me and that huge TV screen that I don't have to share with no body or I don't have to see little people walking in front of me or having to raise the volume so I can hear.

Amo ser mama pero tanmbien tengo que aceptar que es una responsibilidad enorme sobretodo cuando estas todo el tiempo con esas personitas y no tienes nadie que te de la mano, depronto un esposo que llega cansado de trabajar, al cual tambine le tienes que tener consideracion ya que esta trabajando para que te puedas quedar en casa cuidando estas personitas.


Nenes aveces nos sentimos cansados es normal y lo mejor que se puede hacer es hablar y decir como nos sentimos aunque en esa conversacion no llegemos a una solucion el solo hecho de hablar nos ayuda ver las cosas de otra perspectiva.


Is okey to say not everything is okey, there is no perfection in life nenes working to make it perfect is what life is all about, because along that journey you would find new things in live that would keep you going, amores life is like a carousel you go up and down but you always have a safe landing.


This week has being a very tough week I have learn many new things, I have also discover that tension can make me very sick and that people can do imaginable things with their mind, that what we hear is not always what other mean, and the people close to you can sometime have very strong minds that make you sick and confuse you.  Nenes always trust your instincts and always keep your enemies close.  I know I am a bit strong today but not everything is bubbles and beauty, is also my duty as a mami to let you now that things can sometime be stormy out there.  But always be true to yourselves and do what you think is right what makes you happy....your decisions are yours and you would always have to come to terms with them so do what makes you happy after all you are the one that lives with them forever.  


Dont' do things to make others happy, remember your happiness is the most important thing.

La cabeza de mami

Buenos nenes un poquito de donde esta la cabeza de mami estos dias. Just a few random thoughs

To start my hands are always holding a little person a body less than 42 pounds, I love that feeling, or I am breastfeeding Amir the other day while I held him at night I was thinking that one day his hands and feet would be bigger than mine. It just made me realize what a big responsibility it is to be a mom, to offer that little person all of your knowledge and to know that one day they might know more than me.

Is the simple things of life that give you a bigger insight of what life really is, now I have to fix their DVD so they can watch TV in a couple of years they would be so technology savvy that I will be a dino to them...nenes I can not imagine what would be around in a couple of years to come.

Is scary how fast everything changes just 4 years ago I will breastfeed Samia in the middle of the night and watch TV and now with Amir I breastfeed and I am playing with apples greatest invention so far the IPhone I know nenes when you guys read this IPhone would be compare to those huge car phones that came out in the late 80's.

I still remember my first cell phone a Kyocera that the screen was blue not even color like now days no picture taking and a few basic games...now I can take pics, video, etc etc.

I have also started to read again I am making time for it, nenes one day you guys would be parents but always keep on mind there always has to be time for ones own interest or else we would not be happy inside and if we are not happy we can not offer the best from us. Always find a few minutes to enjoy yourselves doing whatever it is that makes you happy reading, playing cards, drawing etc.

Would continue later with much more

One of those days!!!!

The last couple of days keep on being full of action. Yesterday I drove by myself to Houma, it was nice in a way but I also felt lonely. As I was driving with out my usual passengers I did not know what to do in the road for two hours with no noise or refilling juices or passing snacks.

I had allot of time to think I guess the thinking really started when I was brushing my hair something I never do, with straight hair why bother brushing it. And I found 13 gray hairs maybe more because I started counting at 13. As I was driving I had time to think that I am 34 with 2 children and marry for 7 years. WOW! At times I think I am kind of old for having the kids mainly because when we moved to the south most of the girls were 27 with 2 children I was 28 and not even one. Then the though of living in the country hit me as I pass houses with huge land I mean 20 acres and more. So then I start thinking maybe our next move when the girls are a bit older I could go the farm girl style, get a big piece of land, have some chickens, goats, sheep's etc. I do have to admit it has crossed my mind a couple of times, but yesterday was the first baba heard it from me. Needless to say he was beyond himself, his Mistika mention she would like to live in a farm, I know that is something he has always wanted but I would always stop him. Let's see how I will feel in about 4 years when the girls would be older as well.

Monday should be the closing of the house but nenas mami has being in a high stress mode like they say bad things happen in sets of 3 and I think today was the last bad thing. The first one was the computer die on me I know maybe is not such a big deal, but being without a computer is a big deal for me. Second thing some very smart employee in Target screwed up with some money were were suppose to received so now we are having to research it. Thirdly a Cashier check that was deposit in our account was misplaced, lost or like I call it ignorance from the teller. So hopefully today I break from the chain of 3's.

Gamila today I had to talk you to the Dr. for the past couple of night you wake up at around 11 and can not go back to sleep because oft he cough. Thank God is just a simple summer cold plus you are teething.

Whole different thing, I have being meaning to mention this. For the last 2 months I being using my own fabric bags to get my groceries, so I could go a little green and not use so many plastic bags. However I have come to realize is not that easy for starters cashiers hate using them. I can just see their face when I hand them my totes, if looks could kill I would be killed about 2 times per week. I went ahead and mention baba why the cashiers hate using them, he did tell me they train them but they don't like using them I guess is more work having to hook the bag in the bagging carousel. Is a shame here I am trying to be green and what I received is bad looks and an attitude.

Cosas inauditas

Nenas siempre les escribo sobre las cosas hermosas que tiene la vida pero como todo en esta vida hay cosas no tan buenas.  Me imagino que es haci para que podamos reflexionar y tratar de mejorarlas.  Es normal sentirse asi de vez en cuando.  Seriamos unos mentirosos si decimos que nos sentimos bien en todo momento de nuestras vidas.

Estan son algunas cosas que me paracen inauditas en este mundo en el que vivo.

• Vivir en un mismo pais y dejar de versen por meses
• No recibir una llamada de un ser querido en una fecha especial
  
• Tener amigos solo de titulo
• Sentirse solo cuando estas en medio de un estadio 
• Quejarte cuando gozas de salud
• Decir esta bien cuando por dentro piensas lo contrario
• Tener temor a los que los otros van a decir
• Vivir en una sociedad donde todos somos falsos en algun momento de nuestras vidas
• Tener que aceptar los que no nos gusta para ser aceptados
• Mirar atras y preguntarnos como Perdi tanto tiempo

Ahora que todas estas cosas las he manifestado tratare de trabajar en no sentirme asi o aceptar el por que de algunas...

Las amo nenas