Trusting naturalness

The other day something that Pao, my second little three-year-old boy did, captured my attention: They were playing with popsicle sticks forming shapes. After a while he showed me what he’d done and the sticks were arranged like letters, but nonsense. And he told me: “Look mama, it says Indiana Jones. Here I have an “M”… and if I put it at the beginning, then it would say: Mindiana Jones!”

A relationship of attention

Usually, when I walk in the street with my three children, people stare at us and there's always someone who asks in a tone of amazement: "the three of them are youuuurs?... how do you handle it having threeeeeeee?", as if none of those people had ever had more than three siblings… or children! - many of them are old ladies.  Nowadays, being a mother of more than two children is considered as a heroic deed, when last generation a family with less than six children was very little. Women's mentality has changed so much, but that's material for another post 

Merged in one only

I met Mario sixteen years ago. We were classmates in high school.  I liked to laugh about his jokes and he helped me out in English class. The graduation day was the last time I saw him. Seven years later, I got a forward with his e-mail address within the "to" addresses. I was surprised because it had been so long that I hadn't heard anything about him and besides, I wasn't sure that he was the same Mario González I knew. I wrote to say hi and very quickly I got a reply. 

Housekeeping

Since some time ago I've been struggling with this thought of taking more advantage of the kids in housekeeping. I use the verb struggle because it is a true revolution of thoughts that is taking place in my head.

Our new home

Finally, after six long months of living in a house that didn't meet our family needs, we've found a little paradise just in the middle of the area where my husband works. The search was arduous and sometimes disappointing  because we felt there was no place that could fulfill all the characteristics that we looked for in a house. 

Singleness and Real Estate

I've lately been thinking about that period of my life when I was single and there was not any perspective of marriage yet. I remember how difficult it was to have another birthday and keep being single.

Mom's eagerness*

In Spanish, we have a word that cannot be translated to English. It is "afán" It can be a noun or an adjective. It expresses application, strive, aspiration, wish, vehement yearn, diligence, rush, hurry, eagerness. I can say that I am "afanosa" which means that I have all those qualities. Or I can say that I have an "afán" to do things, which means that I want to do things in all those ways. I've been searching and I think that the best word I could find to translate this concept is "eager, eagerness" I'll use these two words whenever  I'm talking about the word "afán" or "afanosa" in Spanish.