i'm useless

after a few days of not doing much... feeling weak,  a bit drowsy ( i wanted to use less medication, but it's still too painful. one side is not healing as fast as it'd be desired...) and bored...above all, really bored!! i tried to get myself up, doing myself up.

i even watched a few videos on how to do my hair.

but the thing is...

i am useless.

 i can't do my hair if my life depended on it!!

it is sad.

i did my make up.

it made me feel way better.

i just would like to have nice hair... i would like to do something different than just straight or pony tail for a change.

i will try again... and i will be patient, i guess. 

but it is moments like these that make me want to chop off all of my hair.

i'm growing it long, though. i'm forcing myself to keep it long.

i think it will help me do more things with it. 

and i am not coloring either.

i like my virgin hair, now.

i like it.

patient

everytime i think about that word, i think about THIS TALK now:

it is a blessing, really, to have the priesthood today, to have prophets today.

i love general conference.

i am excited.... october is right around the corner!

anyway.... i got there after reflecting on pain.

the pain i have endured these couple of days after the surgery.

tylenol 3 has been my best friend lately.

it helped easing the pain, and letting my rest.

now all i want is to be able to EAT!

i am so hungry, i can think of a million things i will like to put in my mouth.

hopefully soon.

 i tried to chew some pasta the other day and it was soooo tiring!

 my jaw got so sored after a few bites.

anyway, in the mean time: water and yoghurt.

i asked evan to bring me ice cream and he gets chocolate ice cream... i don't like chocolate ice cream! you would think that after 7 years of marriage he would know that!! 

i didn't say anything, though. 

i rather not talk much, it still hurts. so i think everyone is thankful for that around here ;P

if you don't read/listen to the talk, i leave you this quote:

Elder Orson F. Whitney wrote: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. … It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire.”

the good and the bad

that's what seems to heppen all the time.

the good and the bad come hand in hand.

the good?: my hubby came home!!

i also had a wedding i had to play for ( my first paid job as a pianist, apart from the teaching)

it was my excuse to pamper myself and at the same time be all done up for my baby.

i did my nails, both hands and feet, and had some waxing done, plus the usual eyebrow threading on friday.( nice to be out without the babes for an hour).

saturday morning was full of driving around.

leaving the kids at the babysitter, going to do my hair, pick up the kids, drop them off at tracy's for jane's b-day, going to the church for the ceremony. driving back to the park where i thought the party was at, but no one was there. going to tracy's ( no one was there either) going to francia's house ( no one was there, but the neighbour let me used the phone. with no luck because i thought evan would be home but he wasn't answering!). so i drove all the way home. evan had just gotten in. his flight was delayed. i got changed, got the kids clothes ready and didn't wait for evan to get ready, i had to go get them at tracy's again get them all dressed there and then go to the church for the reception!! i was exhausted.

when i got there, they were just starting. and evan wasn't there yet but got just in time for the food.

the kids were super excited to see him. they couldn't believe their eyes!

he was super tired, and since he was driving his bike he left right away... i know... it sucks to be at a wedding without a date :( 

when the kids saw that daddy wasn't there, they asked where he was. i said at home. evan's eyes got super big:"our house???" he asked... it is so nice to go home knowing your hubby is there waiting for you :D

we didn't last too long at the party. i was tired too.

sunday i had ward council at 9am. then drove back home to get the family and put the roast in the crock pot ( i had the elders for dinner!). i had some more business after the meetings...and then home to do the rest of the cooking. 

monday was evan's b-day party.

it was pouring so we moved it to tuesday, so that morning i attacked the mountain of dirty clothes evan brought. we went grocery shopping adn we went to the police station to get evan's lost wallet back. someone found it and turned it in. money and everything untouched. that's canada for you, my friends.

tusday was party time! i did the cupcakes, prepared all the food and things and headed to the water park.

it was a nice day.

almost all the kids that were invited came. but evan was really happy. he played with everyone there, and had so much fun.

evan had to go to the base on wednesday morning and i went to the water park with the kids and all my mexican friends.

that evening i had a rs activity. and evan stayed home with the kids.

by the time i got home all were in bed :D

we had a nice talk.

we, ok, i would say I needed that talk.

everything had been so full of things to do, we really didn't have much time to just sit and talk.

we started watching a movie... i fell asleep in the middle of it.

today... evan was up at 6'30. had a blood test to get done.

at 10 he drove me to the dentist.

got my 3 wisdom teeth out.

it was pretty  easy. he said i have pretty tough gums. should i feel good about that?

evan took the kids to the beach while i slept. i thought i could go to the beach with them, but once the freezing wore off i couldn't handle it.

it was really nice to just sleep.

they got home and i got in this frantic mood.

cleaned teh kitchen, make dinner, mop the floor, give the kids a bath... and lay dead on my bed.

evan sat with them to eat, put their pijamas, brushed their teeth, prayed and put them in bed.

he made me a milkshake. i have just had water since breakfast, i feel sick in my stomach.

hope i start feeling better soon. at least i always seem to have some kind of burst of energy....and often i take it too far.

i never learn.

someone like me

for someone like me that would spend the whole day laying in the sun, getting tanned super fast,

it is horrible to be allergic to the sun.

but since i loooove it so much, i don't care that my lips get so swollen, that they get all chipped and dry and they crack.

i just rather go through the whole week of applying vaseline and  lotion and not being able to kiss ( good thing my hubby is not around ;P) and not being able to have lipgloss on ( that is a really tough one for me)... but "q me quiten lo bailao" ( as we would say in spain :P).

i enjoyed my day at the beach.

i really did.

my lips will have to forgive me.

they'll just have to.

potty training

i said i wasn't going to force isabel to stop wearing diapers.... but i just don;t want to spend $30 on diapers anymore. 

school is starting soon, and i know i will have more time to be dedicated solely to her, but i though i would start.

so far... i don't like it. she is very against it. so i'm taking it easy.

i have two more weeks on my own, and then my baby comes home.

another thing i am excited about is for evan jr to stat kindergarten.

he is really pushing all my buttons lately. and i just have zero patience left.

is it bad i want someone else to deal with  him??? poor teacher. but of course, he'll be the cuttest little sweatheart for her, i know. he'll keep the bad behavior for me. i'm sure.

oh well.

i'm just hanging by a thread, but still hanging.

Relief Society

I have to share with you that I love to be part of the Relief Society.

At first I was in shock about becoming the president, but after a month... I can say that this is simply one more blessing from Heavenly Father.

It is just what I needed to stop being just casual in my study of the scriptures and relying of past experiences with the Spirit, but to become more active in the things pertaining to righteousness, if you know what i mean.

The Atonement of JesusChrist has taken another meaning in my life.

It is amazing to see its power in people around you... it is a transforming event to feel it in your own life.

He can make us perfect.

Yes, He can.

And yes He will if we come unto Him.

I am teaching tomorrow.

I've been inspired by amazing women like the General President, Julie B Beck.

I admire her and look up to her. She has influenced me and blessed me more than she would ever know.

We are truly blessed to be women, to be wives, mothers, sisters, daughters....

to be the daughters of God.