Category: Daily

It’s been well over a month since my last update. At this rate, it seems I’ll have 1 post a month this year (which is totally NOT what my goal was!). But oh well. I can’t complain. I guess lack of updates means life’s pretty busy and I’m just glad it’s the positive type of busy. I hope it stays that way!

This will be one of those backward-type posts.

The kids are all home on Spring Break, except for Jules who went back home Sunday night. We took the kids to the Discover the Dinosaurs exhibit at the Convention Center on Sunday, except for Eenan who didn’t want to go (teenagers!) and stayed with John. Poor Jorgie had to get an adult ticket and couldn’t get on the moonjumps and rides. And Justin and Jaylen didn’t have as much fun as the little ones lol. But it was fun to get out and do something different.

We went to Weinershnitzel afterwards. Hotdogs and ice cream cones galore!

Emily and Jaylen accompanied me to the mall on Saturday. They had a great sale on kids’ T-shirts so I got the boys a few each. And got myself some work pants, finally. Now all I need is heels because petite STILL fits so long on me :(!

Anyway, my boy is such a gentleman, carrying bags and all :). We ate at the food court and then joined the brood at home, where I made tacos for all :).

Other than that, poor things haven’t had much of a Spring Break since Jorge and I are working :(. They leave with their other parents on Wednesday, so that cuts our week short. We were going to go to the movies last night but it became late so we opted to rent a new movie on Directv…just to find out the ones the kids wanted to watch aren’t out for home rentals yet, grr. So we watched “Interstellar”, which depressed the crap out of everyone lol.

Poor Eenan got his wisdom teeth extracted on Friday: all 4, all at once.

As annoyed as I was by the crappy service at the oral surgeon’s office and even worse service at the pharmacy, I’m glad my Nano is recovering pretty well. Even though he’s my big boy I can tell he loved the undivided attention and getting to laugh at my pitiful attempt at playing Halo with him. He even said at the beginning of the week, “I can’t wait, Mama.”

Me: “For?”

Eenan: “To get all the attention like Jorgie did when he broke his leg and like Emily did when she had pneumonia.”

He’s still my baby :). I wish we could spend more time together :(.

My poor Emmos had pneumonia :(. She was sick with an annoying cough for about a month and a half and it only got worse. She finally recovered the 2nd week of March, thank goodness. I’m sure the doctors thought I was crazy taking her in every few days, but when I finally requested an xray and the pneumonia showed up they understood why I was so paranoid.

Last week was a flurry of Open Houses for the boys.

I got to catch up with my girls, too, when I was kidless this past weekend. Jessica M. and I had lunch at Casa del Taco on Friday and then I met up with Jessica R.P. in the evening at Hobby Lobby and Starbucks. Both girls treated me, I felt so important hehe. It was great catching up, love them!

I ran some errands with my love the next morning and then I met Jessica M. at IHOP for brunch. I get home later and find a beautiful Hen and Chicks succulent that Sally dropped off for me. I called her and picked her up to go look at plants and Home Depot hehe. I love my girl-dates!

The week before that was a flurry of clothes shopping for them and the girls’ picture day and their Open House.

Before that, we celebrated Emily and Jorgie’s birthdays at Xtreme Lazer Tag. Due to her pneumonia, Emily couldn’t even enjoy the party because she got tired after the first round of tag :(. I sat out with her while she played with her presents and she was content. The other kids did have fun though. Jorge did too! He said, “I think I kicked a kid and used Julien as a shield!” ^_^ It’s a pretty cool place.

Emily got to celebrate her birthday with her classmates, too, and Alaethia was invited so that was nice :).

My love and I celebrated Valentine’s Day on the 20th since the 14th is Julien’s birthday and we had a party for him and Alaethia that day :). We had an awesome dinner at Palenque Grill. Those people are amazing! Super efficient and courteous. We watched “50 Shades of Grey” at Cinemark. I can’t complain about the movie and Jorge was pretty ok with it too. Although we celebrated late, my love outdid himself this year with the Valentine’s gifts.

First, he got me a Nosy Bear I wanted:

Which I was ecstatic about. But then 36 roses arrived at work on the 13th:

And another 36 at home on the 14th:

Along with some goodies:

And then some Tulips on Monday:

So yes, he most definitely outdid himself!

We had forgotten how crazy it was to put on a kids’ party, and that’s because it wasn’t anything huge, just a few friends and family. Very few. Dina chipped in and the family visited and the kids had a blast, though. Alaethia was sad Audrey couldn’t come (they were out of town celebrating her birthday) but Delyssa was there. And Sally, George and the kids. The kids all played Glow Tag with glowstick bracelets and necklaces all throughout the house while Joyce and I stayed at the moonjump with the little ones.

And who doesn’t like having a moonjump for 2 whole days??

So that’s part of March and some of February :). So many great things happening I could explode sometimes :).

I have a more detailed post in the works, but since my laptop seems to be on it’s last breaths and keeps shutting down on me, I’ll have to leave it for some other time. Oh yeah, I have to get up early for work, too, heh.

Speaking of, my last 2 large events are over, Hallelujah! I’ll update on those, too.

I feel a weight off my shoulders and even though I’m pretty busy with other activities at work, it’s nice to go through the day not feeling rushed, or worried. I had a perpetual heaviness in my chest I attribute to stress, and it seems to be completely gone from one day to the next! Don’t get me wrong: I really, truly enjoy my job, but the urgency I feel 24/7 comes with the territory. It’s expected. But it’s nice when something you worked so hard to accomplish comes to a fruitful end :).

It was a cold, drizzly, gloomy day. I even packed a soup and sandwich for lunch at work because I refused to go out in the cold.

I researched what to make with what I already had at home and figured Hasselback zucchini and potatoes would hit the spot. So, as soon as the girls’ homework was done and they were off playing Minecraft, and after talking to the boys, I got to work. And the Hasselbacks were a hit! Even the girls liked them :).

I wouldn’t consider them “healthy” (the butter, oh Lord, the butter!), but it sure was comfort food at it’s best! You could make these all sorts of ways. I’d like to try a sweet potato recipe soon! And although the slicing and waiting and filling are tedious, it’s pretty simple. I followed the recipe from Cupcake Project for a guide on the potatoes, only I substituted her ingredients for onion, tomato, turkey and American cheese–all stuff I already had on-hand.

For the zucchini, I followed Yummily Yours’ recipe, only I set the oven to 400 degrees to bake both dishes together and I reduced the amount of thyme to 2 pinches instead of 2 tablespoons.

Ok. My laptop died again and won’t come back up, wahh. Finishing this up on my Note. I need to make sure I backup all my photos and just everything on it. Ugh. Why now, laptop???

I’ve been dreading/excited about this event simultaneously. It’s one of my favorites, but the work it takes to get everyone on the same page and the fear that some won’t even arrive drives me to a headache, neck pain and is enough to make my chin break out.

Something I’m working on this year is not stressing about work (as much) and not working from home.

So I didn’t work on my lists or correspondence to my vendors or layouts or anything during the Christmas or New Year’s breaks. Usually, I’d stay up the night before set-up till almost midnight making sure the layout was perfect, just to change the whole thing the next morning when people cancelled or when my boss looked it over.

Today, I worked on my emails and layout at work, got it done as best as possible and printed everything else I’d need. Then my boss and I had a quick lunch at Johnny Rockets.

I was sad to find out they got rid of my favorite grilled cheese bacon sandwich, but this BLT sufficed :).

We went straight to the exhibit hall afterwards and the parking/unloading was exhausting on it’s own.  (A vendor had a friend drop off a “few things” to us yesterday but they ended up being a literal truckload!)

We had a line of people waiting to register when we got inside and it was about an hour of hustle and bustle. I still remember my first time during this event 4 years ago–the adrenaline and nerves are still exactly the same!

Things changed even more than I thought they would regarding the layout, but if all goes well and everyone pending shows up tomorrow, then we’re right at the number we were hoping for.
My boss and Alexis and I took turns going out to the floor to see what the vendors brought. Most of my favorite people are here, thank goodness. The lady who does those awesome miniatures from pasta de maiz has so many cute Catrinas!

When she told me to pick mine last year I kept telling her I’d “be right back” at her booth but I was always busy! By the time I did go back she sold out of all the ones I liked. (Didn’t stop me from picking a few others hehe.) She called me over tonight as soon as she set up and I chose these ^_^.

We closed up shop at 7pm and were out a little before 7:30pm. I called the boys to check how their 1st day back at school  went and Jaylen gave me a rundown of his day. We were on Facebook messenger last night working on one of his projects since he didn’t work on it during the break and they were back at Mario’s. He told me about how his PS4 seemed to have just died, too.

Speaking of dying, our poor old (Va)cuum fishy died yesterday. RIP, buddy :(.

The girls enjoyed their last day of freedom with Jenny and the girls, so they were thrilled :). They got to go to Bounce, watched “Annie” and played and ate pizza at Jenny’s. Gotta plan something for them when I’m not so darn busy :(.

I got home, got updates on everyone’s day, changed and then made dinner (Emily helped. And John washed the lettuce lol) while I spoke to Eenan.

I forgot he was supposed to continue his “grounding” for failing a class once school started again but he reminded me, ha.

Got the girls ready for bed since tomorrow is their first day back. I’m now relaxing with Jorge and trying my hardest to leave that layout and vendor list in my work bag, heh. Wish us all luck tomorrow!