Nanaimo

We went to Nanaimo.

I forgot how much I like my friends there...

The visit was short but sweet.

Very tiring for me. We stayed at a lady's house which is not child proof and had a dog...so I was in constant tension, watching out for my kids that they wouldn't touch or break anything and Isabel was afraid of the dog.... TIRING!

But I had fun :D

I miss him... terribly

I miss my hubby.. sooo much!

I get to talk to him almost every day... but talking in the phone doesn't cut it.

Although I LOVE his voice... so deep and sexy ;P

I really need him close....ahhhhhhh...

September 1st isn't too far away, is it???

I will survive... I will survive!!

Isabel got sick again.

Since her seizure I've been more than obsessed about her temperature.

It got high... it got scary. I gave her some medicine, gave her a bath, and called the elders to come and give her a blessing.

I really needed the power of God to help me here, because the last thing I needed was to have to run to the Hospital with my three kids in the middle of the night... or to be alone during a seizure!

It did work!

It was one of those moments where all you have is your faith...and it is sufficient to make one whole.

A great testimony... once again.

She is using an inhaler now for asthma is she is great at it. She keeps the mask on so patiently... she even looks cute on it!

I have to keep an eye close on her 24/7 but I don't mind, though. I love this little girl. She is so cute.

I can't believe how into shoes she is!!! It is adorable!

She is now out of her crib.

She'd been sleeping with me all this time without Evan... but last night she was on her own... and she didn't wake up at all!

She is such a big girl :D

My kids are always talking about another baby (so is my husband)... but so far my feeling is she is my last. And I am loving every second of her baby days :D

Proud to be from Spain

Todavia recuerdo una cancion que aprendi en mi primer anyo de canto:

"Soy espanyola, y orgullosa lo digo. VIVA mi tierra que es pura gloria, porque tiene alegria, y la adornan con claveles, guitarra mia".

Mi pais gano el mundial!

Y cuanto desearia estar alli para festejar!

Aunque mi pais no esta en sus mejores circumstancias, siempre me he sentido orgullosa de decir que SOY ESPANOLA...

y ahora mas!

VIVA ESPANYA!

Y aqui va algo que le queria decir a mi amiga Marta :

Yo siento que por decir Viva Espanya te tachen de fascista.... eso eso, a pasar pagina, y a ser felices, hombre!!! Q a mi me encanta Espanya, catalanes y cualkier independalista que haya. Porque no veas lo bien que hablo yo de Barcelona ( q solo la conozco de pasada, por cierto) porque es mi pais! ( por cierto, tb soy forofa del FC Barcelona!!)

Me molesta y mucho mucho, que no tenga palabras el himno espanyol!! Cada vez que canto el de canada se me cae la lagrimilla. Q inspiracion recibes escuchando el de Espanya??? Parece que no hubiera nada por lo que el pueblo espanyol se caracterice, a lo que aspire, lo que honre... o lo que le sirva de inspiracion.... me toca la moral!

En fin... que ya lo han comentado aki en las noticias... no le podia haber pasado nada mejor a Espanya que ganar el mundial. Dada la situacion de nuestro pais, por lo menos tener una ilusion, una razon para celebrar.

Le pregunte a mi cunyado cuanto iba a durar la euforia y me dijo que los cuatro anyos que quedan para el proximo mundial... eso espero!

Face Paint

Apparently my kids love it!

Hands full...

Everyone says that when they see me with my kids...

I realized that I only took two pictures of my kids last month....

TWO PICTURES??

Have I been that busy???... Well YES! Let me tell ya!

I'm starting to get tired of the fights to put the 3 kids in the car, taking them out, to put them in again to only take them out again.... that's every time we get out of the house!

We get home for dinner and then is cooking, baths, loading dishwasher, moping the floors...... laundry loads.....Yes, I am getting tired of doing everything on my own.

I can't even stay awake to watch a movie when they're finally sleeping!

So it's like 9'30 and I am more ready for bed than my kids.

I was trying to potty train Isabel... but I am afraid that will have to wait.

I have to clean up my garage and rearrange the kids rooms.

They're switching because Isabel is upgrading from crib to bed.

She wakes up in the night and I think it is because the crib is not that comfy for her anymore.

We'll see :D

Now... so I don't forget how my kids look like these days... here are some pictures :D

Grades...Notas.... Calificaciones

Carmen's grades from school were really good.

Remember getting your grades in school???

In Spain all was Progresses Appropriately or Needs Improvement...

Here it is Meeting expectations, or Exceeding expectations.

Carmen is exceeding in reading.

(Seriously she is a 2nd grade reader.

She has read almost 200 books since she started school).

Once I got into high school...getting grades was not too exciting.... I actually dreaded that day!!

Math especially. That is the one subject I failed every single year! And my last year I barely made it. Mind you I took that year twice!

I really thought I was stupid.

I never took the test to access University because I seriously didn't consider myself one of those who could make it... My average was 6.2... it is not great but it is not bad! I could have done it... I know that now.

Anyway... got me thinking....

It sucks to be tested, to feel under pressure, to be under judgement.

I think of everything is EXPECTED of me...and how I fail... oh how I fail, time after time!

We are not ALL 10's.

We are not 10's at everything... but that doesn't mean our 10's in somethings are less 10's because we are 4's in something else.

I need to remember that more often!

Needless to say I can't wait till I can start going to school... And I have even considered going to medical school. I've always wanted to and why not?