At my parents...

We started our holidays, and have "moved" to my parents home for a couple weeks. They live by the sea, and luckily have a house big enough for all of us and, more important, they want us here...

How it feels to have a stroke

I just thought it was very interesting...

Gardening (nothing wrong, Buffalo, just busy)

A few months ago I planted tomato seeds, strawberries and herbs... The tomatoes are just starting to grow but they're still quite tiny. I had no idea tomato plants made lovely yellow flowers...

I also had the brilliant idea of tipping my daughters when they pick up their toys and tidy the room before going to bed. 50 cents was my top payment and it worked great for a while... until Alicia figured she had enough money to buy a tiny russian hamster. I offered to buy the cage. Yes. And now much of the motivation to clean and help pick things up is at a minimum. (I was so smart) Why couldn't she think of something more expensive to buy, like an apartment??
She loves the hamster (I like it too, I must confess) and at first insisted on letting him/her wander through a bigger cage, like her princess castle: (click to enlarge if you don't see our mouse)



Apparently, life at the castle was too bourgeois for our royal hamster, and he/she decided to flee from the oppression of palace life, knocking the princess down in the process, and headed for the bus stop.



He/she now resides in her tiny cage with a wheel to exercise when the stress of daily life becomes unbearable!

Pst: I might start another career in september, a degree in teaching. I wonder if I'll find the time to study. I've alredy filled the online application. All I need now is to take some papers to the university and... hope I'll be accepted...
School is over now, we plan to stay next month with my parents, at the beach, and late in july we'll travel to Austria...

Things about Cristina that try my patience...

1- Finishing a meal takes ages for her. And the food just tumbles in her mouth like in some washing machine. And you know, washing machines have that circular window (whatever that's called), so I get to see the food in her mouth whirpooling... again, and again, and again, until she decides to pull the plug out and let the food go down.

2- She usually demands a very clear answer. If she makes a question and I say "maybe" or "I think so", she gets quite upset and insists on getting a real answer. Which to her is usually YES.

3- She only uses diapers at night, but she feels she's too big for that, and doesn't want them, even though in the morning they're always soiled. So before going to bed I have to be very careful not to use the word "diaper", because that would make her furious. Instead, I say "now let's put this on". This is a diaper. But it mollifies her somewhat if I don't use the ugly word....

But she's cute when she's asleep, isn't she?

I can almost hear her soft breathing...

I love to watch them sleep. She was so tired this morning she didn't even stir when I was taking pictures. Even the noise I made opening the window so I had more light didn't wake her...

Update: Hubby and his team lost their second game 19-0. But they're having a great time which was also one of their goals, so it's ok. Their second goal was to come back home in one piece (so far so good) and the third one was winning a game but this seems unatainable given the level of the other teams...

I told you...

Just as I predicted...
First game. Catalans 1, Danish 15

Apparently, the Catalan is, by far, the most amateur of the teams. It was supposed to be a championship for non-professionals, but word got out that Catalans would have one of the best teams. It's a gossip story, in one country they're saying that this team will have such and such, in the next the same happens and everyone starts building a more professional team.... except.... us! Well. at least they're having a good time!