The Greatest Gift: January 2009

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Art

Cintas. Acrilico sobre tela

Here are a couple more painting I did for my mom's place while I was in Spain.

Nenufares. Acrilico sobre tela.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

The New Year rolls around, it doesn't feel like it was that long ago that I was thinking of my goals for the year that we've left behind.

I'm happy to see that I did reach some of those goals I put for last year, others like , "This year I'm really going to exercise and get back in shape" ..well... I stayed faithful a few months but for one reason or another I let lethargy and discouragement beat me. I'm not cutting myself any slack in that department because I'm a firm believer that if you want to do something, it doesn't matter the odds, you can and will do it. It's very easy to find excuses for myself , but in the end, they are just that , excuses.
I'm happy to say though that one of my goals for this past year was to become more profesional and organized and methodical in my job/ ministry, and I have.

Back to the goals for this year,I've been thinking a lot about my personal goals for this year.

When I think about goals almost the first thing that comes to mind is that quote that says that if you have none, you are sure to reach them. I don't want to be like that.
I have goals , there's things I want to do this year and other things I want to see change in.

The truth is I see people embarking in exciting, ambitious new projects for this new year, while I feel I'm basically going to do the same I've done for the past few years, I would love to do something showy and exciting like that but after praying and thinking about it I've reached the conclusion that, for this year, kids are gonna be my mission, and their hearts my mission field.

I've dedicated the past few years to teaching, it's a rewarding job, monotonus sometimes too.

I know, not very showy, a kind of behind the scenes job maybe, perhaps when my kids are older I'll have time to do gardening, art, more witnessing, set up a business ... who knows...for now I'll keep whashing their dirty hands, changing their diappers, teaching them to read and then write, showing them algebra and the amazing world we live in.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Thank You!

This year, Christmas was made special by Grandpa and Grandma, which sent a cargo of gifts and needs for the kids and mommy too. I want to dedicate this post to Grandma Heidi and Grandpa Christian for making our Christmas so special. We are so thankful and deeply touched by your sweet deeds of kindness. You really made Christmas this year, for that, from the bottom of our hearts, we want to say ... THANK YOU!!.

Bennie loves puzzles, he really enjoyed making this one.

Ayleen loves her puppie and calls it gua-gua, every morning when she wakes up she asks for it ... it's usually tangled in between her blankets. Yesterday I took it down the night before, to put it in the washing machine cause it had gotten a little dirtie from all the walks she has with it. She couldn't find it so she asked me with her big interrogating eyes where was her gua-gua I tried explaining to her that it was taking a "bath" cause it was very dirty, so she went to the bathroom, opened the shower door and had the most dissapointing look in her face when the puppie wasn't there. ha !! so cute!!.

They all really like playing with the nice play dough, after an hour Ayleen still had a hard time putting it away, and I thought she wasn't gonna be interested in it. Great Gift. For now it 's become a super fun family time activity and a good barganing chip. heh!

Opening her present .And there were other things but I just haven't had the time to take pictures of everything.
We love you and pray you have the bestest New Year, 2009, full of the Lord's blessings.!!

Kings day

Every King's Day ( 6 of January) for the past few years we've organiced a big CTP , in other words something for the poor.
This year we put together a lot of clothes, shoes, toys that friends sponsored, aguinaldos(sweets) and a nice puppet show with the story of Chrsitmas and a message of salvation,for the event.
All the homes in the area participated, which was nice, it can sometimes get a little confusing with so many people but that's just how it usually goes. Hah! We picked a neighborhood that had 150 single moms and worked with the coordinater of the neighbourhood. One thing that cought my atention was that there were quite a few Down Sindrome kids in the whole bunch.. which sure made me thankfull for the health our kids usually have.