Author: Yajaira

It’s 10:30pm. Jorge and I are watching the Patriots vs. Texans game and I’ve just finished setting up my little Dell laptop my love bought me for Christmas :D. Yes. I cheated and got my gift already. Like Javi said (either last Christmas or the year before): we’re adults and don’t have to wait till Christmas, buahaha.

We got an amazing deal on this laptop. I almost wondered what was wrong with it. You can’t beat $100! So far, I love it. My little Samsung was a trooper but her little hard drive was giving up already :(. I’d be in the middle of paying bills (because, really–that’s all I use it for other than some light blogging), and the darn thing would shut off midway. So inconvenient.

(Yay, Pats won!)

Can I talk about what a nerd I am? Well, it’s not really being a nerd, it’s me hiking up my big girl chonies and taking control of my finances. I went on a craze updating my Microsoft account and downloading the Excel app on all my devices (including Jorge’s phone) so we can update our bills/daily expenses from our phones so it reflects the same amount at all times. I feel like a genius! I won’t have to hear, WHERE DID ALL THE MONEY GO??. He can see for himself :D. Now, if I can just get Husband to keep using it!

Anyway. So, I didn’t end up starting my cleanse. I was all PMS-y, overwhelmed and hadn’t even had a chance to pack breakfasts and lunches last week so there was just no way. I spent Monday trying like hell to be positive but I was just so emotional! And I just felt like I had so much on my plate. Thursday was by far the most stressful day of the week, since I was helping Gerry with an event while she’s out. I didn’t even get to eat lunch and I didn’t get to finish a task that was due by Friday so I’ll have to speak to my boss about that tomorrow =\. BUT. For the most part, I aced last week.

Alaethia had her Christmas program on Tuesday and she did wonderfully :).

Emily had PJ day on Thursday, but we were in such a hurry that morning I didn’t even get a pic :(.

Jorge and I hung out after he got out of work on Friday. We ordered WingStop and just had a good, long talk as we drove around. I’d been bottling up my emotions all week and just let it out. I wasn’t even quite sure why I felt so upset (I tell you, PMS), but he listened while I babbled. And then he babbled and we just let it all out. I felt a million times better :).

I didn’t have the kiddos this weekend, but Alaethia’s UIL meet was yesterday morning so I met the girls and Mary at the site. It was loud and chaotic but I was happy to spend some time with the girls :). My little gal won 1st place last UIL meet and I’m just so proud of her! I know she and Audrey did magnificently.

I did some Christmas shopping yesterday, wrapped a few of the kids’ gifts and visited Gramma. I was annoyed that she’d been sick with a cough for a while and they weren’t giving her any type of medication or treatment. Shoot, I don’t even think they’d checked on her much. So I waited to speak to a nurse and made absolutely sure they’d start her on meds and nebulizer treatments. I went back to check on her today and they’d done both, plus ran an x-ray.

Jorge and I had made plans to possibly go to the beach last night, but when he called me on his way home from work he said, “What’s the plan, do we have one?” I said, “I don’t know, what do you feel like?” and he said, “Don’t tell me that, I’ll say stay home,” and I said, “That’s fine with me!” So we did. We lounged and watched the fight while we drank mango Moscato :). Junior visited a while, too.

And as for today, we cleaned our bedroom, wrapped presents and just spent the day together at home. Well, I ran a couple of errands before visiting Gramma, but I was home for the most part. I made us some awesome shrimp tacos for dinner. And now it’s 11:00pm and I didn’t get to finish cleaning my bathroom, empty files from my phone or put stuff on eBay. The weekend just goes by way too fast.

I gotta get some rest and be ready for this week. I just need to keep calm and complete my tasks at work one at a time. I can do this!

I tried to begin a new post about an hour ago, but it seems like it’s just never meant to be. I’ve got a Thanksgiving post pending, and I was going to post about working at the Christmas Parade yesterday but this darn computer kept pretending it didn’t have Wi-Fi capabilities all of a sudden. Then, when Jorge messed with it and it finally came back on, I remembered I had to pay some bills so there went my whole hour *sigh*.

It feels like this weekend went by too fast. Well, it did, because I worked yesterday, dur. But anyway, I was hoping to sleep till at least noon to make up for lost sleep yesterday, but we spent the morning cleaning the house. Most of my cleaning time was spent helping the girls organize their room. It had become insane already.

I’m preparing to have a stressful month, or 2 months or so, but we’ll see. I’ve not dwelt on it so far, so I really need to get back to that. Just roll with the punches. *oohhhhhhmmmmm*

I’m not really sure this week is the best of weeks to start a diet cleanse, what with all the stress and my “Girl problems” that start this week, but I’ve been eating like crap and feeling even worse so it’s time. I wanted to do something like this (my main goal is to eliminate some carbs and sweets) and I saw a girl I follow on Instagram, _amandagetsfit_, post a cleanse! It was kismet! I saved it and did my grocery shopping today by it. It’ll help me keep Mom on track, too, because a lot of the foods on the cleanse list are exactly what she should be eating.

I semi-started today, even though I had coffee in the morning. Oh my, it was the best. I’m not prepared for the insane withdrawal headaches I’m sure to get. I’m going to miss it. It’s the reason I wake up in the morning!! –Ok, I’m being completely over-dramatic, but I just love my morning coffee :(.

I should get in bed. It’s 11:45pm and I have to be up around 4:40am to get everyone to school and myself to work on time. I’m sure gonna miss that coffee!!

I could have sworn I already had a post started about Thanksgiving, but I can’t seem to find it. Weird. I bet you anything it didn’t properly save when I tried to on the app.

ANYWAY!

The kids were spending Thanksgiving lunch with their other parents and dinner with us. So Jorge and I were lazy all morning, watched a movie, spoke to Dina for a while and took our time getting ingredients chopped and things boiled. Extra pat on our back for remembering to thaw the turkey with enough time this year :D!

Mario was dropping the kiddos off to me since he asked for a bit more time with them, so that helped tons with getting stuff ready. For the first time since moving into this house we didn’t feel rushed. It was great. We did miss Dina, Bri, Javi and the kids; it was a little quieter than usual. But all that changed when the kiddos all arrived :).

While Jorge went to pick up the boys, my kiddos, Mom and I went to visit Gramma.

Got home and finished cooking. We figured they’d all be ok with dinner around 6pm since they’d all just eaten around 3p-4p, but they’d gotten impatient and kinda stood around staring at us while we waited for the turkey to hurry up.

First, it was the boys…

Then the girls and Justin came…

We say grace before dinner, but this year, Jorge made sure no one–not even John–starting stuffing their faces until everyone expressed what we were thankful for :).

I’m truly grateful for my kids, husband, my entire family. My job, of course. Our home, vehicles, just everything. I look back and remember just 5 short years ago both Jorge and I were starting from scratch. And here we are :).