Happy Fall

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
~Robert Browning


Its my favorite season of the year! I love the colors and the smells. I love driving down the country roads with all changing leaves and just feel transformed. I love the scent from the bonfires in the backyard. I love wearing my sweaters, sweatshirts and long pants. I miss my soft boots and the many, many , many scarfs I have. I love changing the scarfs daily. The colors and patterns. My scarfs tend to convey my mood for the day. I'm starting to gather a collection of them.

My house is decorated with all things ORANGE! I have the orange fall leaves on my windows.. I have craft pumpkins all over the house. I'm one of those who likes to have the house fit the season. I have orange lights outside. I have orange candles in all the rooms. Now .... I dont want ya'll to think I have this insane orange colored home. I have my brown furniture and with green accents everywhere. I'm totally into brown and green. The colors of nature. Then each season I incorporate the given colors into my brown and green. It works wonders for me.

This blog will be short today but I plan to take the kids for a day trip to visit Shenandoah Mountains and Blue Ridge Mountains. The view is priceless. Hopefully we'll get in a visit to our friends out in the country as well.

I'm still quite new to this. I have thoughts and ideas of what I want to put on my blogs yet I haven't trained my body to go, sit on the computer and actually implement them! I have started reading other peoples blogs and in awe of the range of creativity that is out there. They have ideas and I'm slowly finding my niche. Right now I haven't figure it out but I will...... I'm in no rush. :)

Blogs are beautiful. I'm really enjoying them now. I grew up writing in journals but they were always for my eyes only. Now its a cultural event to have journals for the whole world to view. Its amazing and I'm slowly jumping on the bandwagon!

Till next time.........

Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween!

The kids had a great fun filled day! I was at school all day for their Fall Parade plus helping out in la Nena's class room. We made geese head/hats for the boys. The girls were dressed up in a "pile of leaves" costume. We stapled fallen leaves onto old brown shopping bags. It worked out great! They looked adorable! Papito had tons of snacks as well as crafts. Mamita carved out pumpkins for the annual school fall parade. The school also made it into a math project where they had to measure, weight, count seeds etc. It was interesting. We had many parents come out to participate and help in the classroom parties. I was wiped out! ..........then we came home and got ready for the neighborhood Halloween Block Party.......







The kids came home and they carved pumpkins. The neighbor hosted a Spooky Haunted House and everyone was looking forward to it. The school assistant principal and gym teacher drove by to experience the haunted house! Those who dared to go in...... eventually came out spooked yet happy.


la nena "The Hollywood Starlet" Papito "Star Wars Clone Trooper"



Mamita " Candy Corn Witch"



After hours of walking... yes, the kids wanted to knock on every door in the neighborhood, we settled in for a movie. They eventually did fall asleep...... holding onto their bags of candies!

hello.

is this really me talking? I have no idea where I am going with this. I just know I have to start somewhere. Instead of wasting time figuring out that perfect topic to start with... I'm simply going to start with hello.


Soo here is goes again...

hello.

Strange on how I'm not sure which direction to go. I have so many different topics to talk about and yet i cannot bring myself to narrow it down to a generalized idea.
I am a mother.
I am a wife.
I am a daughter.
I am a granddaughter.
I am a sister.
I am a friend.
I am what I am.... and then some.....
I am ME.....with a shot of coquito.

Coquito is an eggnog-like alcoholic beverage that is traditionally served in Puerto Rico. Coquito is made with rum, eggs, coconut milk, coconut cream, sweet condensed milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. The drink is commonly associated with the Christmas holidays, where it is traditionally served along other holiday food.

Now... you prob wanna know why I put this here...... Its a tribute to my Spanish heritage. I live the American Life and little bits and pieces of Spanish culture pop up here and there. Its part of me. My upbringing. My family and my culture. So this is why I have this as the title of my blog. Kept popping up and stuck in my head... so here it is. ( yes for those alnon'ers... I know..I know.....BUT its who I am... so I ain't worried.)

I learned this past summer.... "one day at at time". This quote should apply to everything in life. Every goal and dream we have..... should begin with "one day at a time" I like quotes. I live for them. They pop up in the oddest places at the oddest times. I get inspiration from quotes. You will see lots of quotes in my blogs. Its a thing of mine. Get used to it. Its my mantra lately.... I see if everywhere!.......

I could go into a lengthy explanation of myself and who I am...but I don't want to. Not tonight. I guess I will do it bit by bit. Its easier and more fun and I'm in no rush.... nor should you be. I don't know who I am entirely... I have a generalized idea. I have 34 years of information so far....yet I'm not done. I have more to discover. More to learn and more to teach. I have a journey in front of me. I'm looking forward to it. At the present moment yes..... Some days I don't feel much like getting outta bed....but I have to .... the world keeps moving whether I get up or not.......so I may as well get going with it and make life interesting along the way.

Like I said earlier... I like quotes... and I also like poems, songs and sayings. Things pop up every so often that will set off a train of thoughts.... and my thoughts sure do take off with them. Some days them make sense .....some days they don't. That's fine with me. We're not supposed to understand everything that happens in life... some things are far beyond our understanding....yet I agree to let it go and enjoy it. Somehow. I hope you'll come along for the ride. I never know where we're going....but as long as we're going forward..... we should be a'ight.