Catching up after the last few crazy months

Wow, the last 5 months have certainly gone by quickly and it all just seems like a tornado came through leaving me in what I can only call utter exhaustion. My son's pneumonia lasted almost 2 months. That took care of May and June. By early July, once my husband and I knew he was much healthier, we felt we needed to get away for a bit for our own mental health so off we went to Hawaii. Did I mention the trip was originally scheduled and booked for Mexico(Puerto Vallarta, where we met)? But due to a hurricane we had to literally change plans 2 days before leaving or so. Yeah, that was pretty stressful :-) but hey, can't complain when your plans do change and you end up in the Big Island. Off we went for 7 days and 6 nights. It was very nice indeed. Relaxing which is just what we needed. We barely left the resort except to catch the shuttle that would take us to the market area to grab lunch and do a bit of shopping. Because you know we had to find a Ukulele for our music inclined and guitar obsessed son. The room was big and comfortable and we had a gorgeous view. The resort was huge and we loved it, the sunsets, well, what can I say, that was the best part. They were absolutely spectacular. From our room, from one of the lounge chairs in front of the ocean, it didn't matter, they were just supremely gorgeous.
Vacation went by quick but then again, don't they always??? Back we were, with our loving son, can't complain when a vacation ends but you come home to your kiddo and he is so happy to see you back you want to cry of joy and love and even some guilt for having left for a week, all at the same time. Will try to post a few pictures shortly of the trip.
After getting back into the swing of work and daycare and parenthood and everyday life running a household it feels like July was gone in the blink of eye. Then August came, and yet again, wow, what a whirlwind that month was.

My last few crazy weeks

Well, ladies, as you probably noticed I haven’t blogged in quite some time and here’s why. I unfortunately had my little boy sick for weeks. He had a cold that just wouldn’t go away. When it started to get better it only lasted a few days like that and then it was back with a vengeance. It got so bad it turned into pneumonia (settled in his left lung) and we ended up in the ER with a boy who had 105.4 temp. You can imagine how scary that was for him and for daddy and mommy. He was put in a 10-day Amoxicillin treatment to which he turned out to be allergic to; got a rash all over his back. After a few days of antibiotics the doctor said “No more”. So thank goodness, they had done their job in 5 days and he had started to feel better. It took us what felt like forever to break his fever, around the clock meds and temp checking for days on end. Now, with the grace of Dios he is finally feeling so much better. The last 5 days he’s been back to his happy self. His sleeping schedule it’s still a bit disrupted but nothing we are going to majorly complain about. That is the least of our worries after the scare we had.  Did I mention the x-ray machine for children is the scariest, most archaic looking tool I have ever seen??? That damn contraption looks like something  Frankenstein would have built in his basement. I had to get a picture online to show it to you. Granted, the child in this picture must have been on some sort of sedative because my Aidan was not this calm, not one bit. He was so scared, poor thing. Anyway, I digress, he is back to happy…probably less traumatized about the stupid machine than his mother :-).

Needless to say, I had a mandatory week of shutdown last week and it was spent mostly making sure the little one was back to healthy. When he was healthy enough to go back to daycare then I was able to catch up with the house work. Can’t believe how much laundry and dishes and the mess a family of 3 can create in a week or two if we don’t keep on top of it. I was able to take some time to work on the maternity scrapbook I’m working on as well so I somehow managed to fit all that in and still spend a couple of nights having fun with the hubby in our pool room, kicking his butt or letting him kick mine, just to be a good wife J. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, don’t judge. Hehehe.

So, on to fantastic news, my husband and I have finally booked our vacation for the week of July 4^th (another company shutdown for me). My awesome mother in law and father in law will be in town and staying with Aidan for a whole week while we are away on a much needed break. We haven’t taken vacation since our Honeymoon and that was almost 3 years ago. How time flies, right? Anyway, we are Mexico bound to an All Inclusive resort that was highly recommended by one of my husband’s co-workers who just came back from his own vacation there a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it.

http://www.barcelo.com/BarceloHotels/en-GB/Hotels/Mexico/PuertoVallarta/LaJollaDeMismaloya/Home

Can’t wait to go back to Puerto Vallarta, where I met my hubby 4 years ago at a pool bar at the Dreams resort. Yes, I still can’t believe he lived so closed to me all those years in the Bay Area, we hung out in the same bars and frequented the same restaurants yet we had to meet while both of us were on vacation all the way in Mexico. Like my mami would say: “Mi’ja, don’t fight el destino, what’s meant to be will be”. So Mexico, here we come, we are ready for the beach, non-stop margaritas and some serious, and I mean serious, R&R. Zip-lining and all sorts of excursions will be so much fun. I will share pictures upon my return.

Well, this all pretty much covers my last couple of weeks worth of updates.

Hope you ladies all have a fabulous week filled with joy and laughter, but most importantly, health.

Vero

Scrapbook Time

Well, I'm excited to share that I got an order for a scrapbook yesterday. I love it when that happens. (Thank you, Shauna!!!). The cool part is that most of what I work on is boy stuff. I'm about to finish (2 pages to go) Aidan's Baptism scrapbook (will post pics soon) and so the timing couldn't have been more perfect. What's even better is that this order is for a maternity book (with a few pages for the baby shower). Yippee, It's a Girl!!!! I'm so excited. I'm lying to you not when I say, since last night all I do is think pretty pink layouts, I've been researching ideas, reading on the latest techniques and oh my, there's so much cute stuff for baby girls. I'm dying to get started. I will be on mandatory shutdown for my work next week and I already have the scrapbook schedule all set up in my head. Trying to finish a book in a week can be a challenge but there's other stuff coming up as well so I have to make sure I waste no time this coming week. Tight schedule but I'll make it work. After all women do this every day of their lives. We always seem to be able to manage 10 balls in the air, right? So I won’t complain. With the way my mind already has about 10-12 layouts all planned out though, it should go fairly smooth. I shall post pictures after I’m finished with it. After I'm done with that I have a couple of weeks to plan a fundraising event for Breast Cancer awareness. Hubby's auntie, a wonderful woman and breast cancer survivor (Go Aunt B!) is doing the 3 day walk (yes, she is, I would die within the first 5 miles...ok, make that 3, why lie?). Anyway, we will be hosting a wonderful event at our home. It's going to be a game theme, it's going to be a blast and I certainly hope it will raise money for this wonderful cause. More details to come, all my friends and family will be invited. E-vite to come in the next few days.

Now, my work, well, it's been an interesting day. Started with computer issues the moment I got into the office by 8am. By 9:30 my laptop had shut itself down 3 times and the last time looked pretty badly. Screens I’ve never seen before were coming up, words in a computer language that I thought were direct insults to my lack of technical skills. It was one of those "Ooops, did I do something?" moments. Eventually a super nice IT guy came by to pick it up and told me "Yeah, it's bad". That meant that he had to do a lot of work on it, there goes the productive day I was planning on having. My laptop was inaccessible for a few hours and by the time I returned to the office and hit traffic the day was almost over. Oh well, it is what it is. Note to self: Keep your calm, Vero; don't lose it over things you cannot control. Tomorrow I will have to work twice as hard to get caught up. Won’t be blogging manana, that’s for sure J

Well, I hope you are all having a fabulous day, hectic or not, stressful or not, it is another day that God has given us, and for that we better be grateful.

Take care chicas!
Vero

Entering the Blogging Waters in hopes I don't drown

This is my first blog and somehow I'm nervous. I don't know why either, after all this is just a medium which I plan on using only to communicate with friends and family. To share the day to day experiences I go through that I would share with them anyway if I had the time to see them as often as I wish I could. Wow, that sentence doesn't seem grammatically correct, does it? Oh my, is this what this experience is going to be like constantly for me? Always worrying whether my English is correct? Do my words make sense to those reading the blog? Yikes, the paranoia is already getting the best of me and I haven’t even hit Submit yet… so here's what I'll do. I apologize in advance if I do misspell any words here and there, if sometimes my sentences go on and on or if my thoughts lack transitions from one to the next. Believe me when I tell you, that's exactly how my mind works as well. At times I wonder how I get so much done in one day when one thing has absolute no relation to the next (did I mention that's why I'm in love with To Do Lists? ). 

Welcome to my mind, welcome to my world, welcome to my life!


I hope you all enjoy my stories and pictures as I’ll try to recap my everyday life to you. Yes, I will include the good, the bad and the ugly. Get ready, this mommy is looking to share the awesome things in her life as well as the things that drive her nuts. And I tell ya, I do have lots of things that get on my nerves. I shall try really hard to keep it all balanced.

Hoping to post again in a couple of days. In the mean time have a beautiful day and don't let anyone get in the way of your dreams. :-)

Vero