Another great day at the beach!

Little Angel

I've always thought that kids sleeping with teddy bears was so cute, but never had the courage to give one to Julia just because I was afraid it would distract her instead of help her sleep. Well, one day I was going through her stuffed animals and found such cute ones that I decided to give it a try. Turns out, she really likes it!! Although some days it does seem to distract her somewhat, other days it seems to help her cuddle in bed! Thus the picture to show you her new friend. I present to you "Mr. Quack"!

summer = company

The pictures above are of the first Saturday in summer that we went to the beach. It was so much fun because we decided to go about 4:30 and after putting everything together got there about 5:30. It was great!! Julia had a lot of fun, and since there was some wind, i just let her go in the water with her clothes on...she had a blast!

Summer has come and with it the certainty that there will be lots of company! Living in a beach town has many advantages, and one of them is that you suddenly become everyone's best friend!! My last year's experience was very stressful because besides having company all the time, i already had people living at home with me, so having other people come was just overwelming. But this year is different, and i have decided to be the best host i can possibly be with NO complaining!!!

So, as i was saying, we have a full weekend ahead of us. On thursday Luiz (neval's first spanish teacher which became our friend and also worked at Global Way with us) and his daughter are arriving, as well as Gel, Fabe and from what Gel said, his car is coming full, so I'm supposing + 3. That's just on Thursday. On Friday, neval's nephew Matheus is coming with his girlfriend. On Saturday we are expecting 2 more family's of 4 people each...besides that we had another 'great' friend call and ask if we were going to be home on the carnaval in february and if not, if he could use our house! He also asked if we would be home THIS weekend...hahahha..that one neval was able to get out of!!! As you can see, i have a lot to prepare for! On the weekend after this one, we already have another family booked from Friday through Tuesday! That is of course the first family we know of... from the looks of things, you never know who could show up!! I honestly wish it were my family coming instead. Any of you intrested?! Love to have you here!!

bye for now, got lots of work to do!!

First Post of the Year!

Well, this is another attempt to make this blogging thing actually work! I've discovered a few things about myself that help explain why i never really kept on with my blog. The first reason is that i generally have a hard time keeping up with something i've started. Like reading a book without stopping it to start another one that for that specific moment looks more attractive. Or staying for a whole year at a gym, and actually going regularly, or even doing exercises at home for that matter. So blogging was another one of my 'uncontinued' things.

But now we are in 2010, and with a new year there are always new ideas, new goals, new hopes, new everything! So, hopefully this time, i'll actually stick with this project, not for myself, but mostly for my daughter, so that the cute things she does everyday, and the new words she says, or new things she learns will not be kept just for me, but be shown off to her tias and grandma (to which this blog is really for)! I know it is time-consuming to stop and read blogs ( i know it because it's hard for me too) but whenever you do have the time, i'd love for you girls to see new pictures of her, and love her for the cute things she does and now says too!

love you all

patricia

Two favorite people

Though it's strange to have two blogs in the same day, I decided to do it this way since one is thoughts from the heart, and this is evidence that despite those yukky feelings i DO have GREAT things to be greatful for. And two among those are these two beautiful people I have in my life, first my awesome husband, and second this little beautiful girl that has definitly brought us so much joy! This is one of Julia's favorite games. It also gives Mommy a lot more work...as you can see though, she thinks it's a lot of fun!! She also absolutely LOVES the Barney DVD!!

This is when we were at Grandma's house...she liked to play the piano and help make the bed with Grandma!!

Isn't she just plane beautiful!!

ALONE

ALONE is the word that best describes me at this time in my life. Living in Camaquã I was surrounded by friends and people ALL THE TIME in my house, and I honestly had had enough of that. Well, now i've come to the complete opposite which isn't so great either. The deepest conversations I have had nowadays are with my 11 month old like: "Let's watch Barney", than go on to sing along the Barney DVD. Or else, "Pumpkin, it's nap time", than go on to hear some tiarsome(sorry, bad spelling) tears from a little girl who doesn't like naps!! I feel the need to have some sort of outlet, but can't seem to have found one right now, and once my husband gets home, he needs to have his time with Little Miss, and once she's in bed, neither of us have the energy to get into deep conversations! Funny thing is that writing this I've stopped to realize how many hours a day I actually spend all by myself!! My husband leaves home for work around 8:30 and has half hour lunch, which I'm SO greatful he comes home to, than he only comes home at around 7:30-8pm. And in the mean time I'm running around the house trying to keep up with my little girl who's climbing everything and crawling everywhere, while trying to keep the house livable. You would think that after spending so many hours alone, I'd be thriving to see people and 'get out there', but I've found that the more time alone I am, the more I want to 'hide', it's just that I haven't had the gutts nor the desire to go out there and talk to people.
Alone is not the only word that describes me now; LOST is a good one too. At the end of the day, i look at the diapers I've changed, the floors I've swepped 'again' and the food I've made 'again' and the time I spent washing dishes and washing and hanging and folding clothes 'again' and the times I had to stop everything to hold a crying baby, and the times I had to feed and bathe and put down for a nap and everything else you have to do with a baby, and it all feels like I'm going in circles, because I know that once I wake up, I'll have exactly the same tasks 'again'. Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY grateful for being able to be the one to care for my little girl and see her growing out of each fase, but should I be satisfied with that and ONLY that>:: I really don't know. It's really hard sometimes to see the big picture of things, like raising a child. The everyday tasks seem to shadow the influence I'm actually having in her life. I know this blog isn't making sense at all, it isn't making any sense to me either. I guess I should just stop here. i don't know if writing down these thoughts really help or make me feel sorry for myself...don't want that!!!

rushing the writing

It has been three months since my last, which in a sense is very embarrassing, but if you'd take a peek into my current internet situation, you'd see why! Let me explain. When we first moved to Rio Grande, we decided not to put internet in our home so we wouldn't have that extra expense since it would only be for my use, and when I wanted to access the internet, I'd go to the store downtown and use it. The only little problem we didn't think of at the time, was that with a 10 month old baby, it's not that simple!! When I do get a chance to go to the store, I have to be lucky enough to have no clients being assisted which gives me the chance to use the computer. At the same time, my husband has to be free enough to hold Julia while I use the computer, because all she wants to do is type WITH mommy!! So, as you can see, by the time I'm able to use the computer, all I can really do is check my email and my family blogs quickly and that's it! As I speak, my little girl needs....maybe I'll get the chance soon to put pictures of her!!