Thur. 16- I was running around like a
chicken with it's head cut off all day!!! I had so much to
get in order before my flight... do all my
wife chores to make sure hubs would be
ok for the couple of days while I was gone... run some
errands... make some
phone calls for house stuff...
pack for
me,
pack for
hubs... all together a lot of
boring things that just
needed to get done. But I did manage to
squeeze in some fun. I signed up for the
Race for Life 10K in London (I did
Race for the Cure in NYC
twice for my
aunt). I also popped into the
Central Saint Martins Degree Show and saw some very
inspiring work! I then
shimmied (literally) over to
The Vintage Emporium that hubs and I found the other day and continued to use their
wi-fi while
munching on
yummy scones and
sipping their
exquisite hot chocolate... did I mention
some guys started playing a
guitar,
banjo, and
violin while
singing some
good old folk and
stomping their feet???
It was magical!!! Then hubs and I went home to
spend some quality time before I departed.
Fri. 17- My journey began
really early today and lasted pretty much
all day!!! I
stumbled out of bed and
kissed a sleepy hubs goodbye for the next
12 days. This is our
first official time spent
apart since we've been married
(not counting the 4 months after our wedding waiting for the visa). What I mean is that this is the
first time that we are
choosing (well kind of) to be
apart after so many
years of the
dreaded long distance. But I am
happy to be going
home and see my
family so I
can't complain. So after an
hour and a half of the
tube,
9 hours and
4 movies on a
near
empty flight, and
30 minutes of waiting around for
delayed luggage, I was
finally home and in the arms of my
parents!!! Which was then
quickly proceeded by me
falling asleep due to
severe jet lag.
Sat. 18- Not many people know this but my grandfather passed away on April 8th of this year. I've been struggling with whether or not to write about it on here and decided it would be healthy for me to share and talk about it some. One of the biggest reason's I wanted to come home now was to help in the clearing of his house and basically have some closure... living far away, I don't think it had really set in. I will be dedicating a post to him in the future but for now I just wanted to share some shots of the tons of cool pictures we found in an old vintage suitcase of his. They are amazing, black and white, sepia, 70's orangey, and just plain amazing. I discovered a whole new side to this man I called my abuelo for so many years. Two things I'm certain of:
1. They traveled a lot... and
2. They were madly deeply in love! The cousin's and I went to
The Local for dinner that night... it was nice to be with
family.
Sun. 19- ahem...
Happy Father's Day to
my daddy and all the
other wonderful father's out there!!! It was so nice to be
home for this... I
haven't been home for an actual one
in years! I actually
can't remember when the
last time I spent father's day with
my dad was! He is just the
absolute greatest and probably because of this,
I am such a daddy's girl!!! We had a great day
cooking up a storm and
playing board games... with my dad and aunt
backseat playing lol. Check out this past
Sunday Link's I
dedicated to my papi... it's all
Beatles and there are some
great pictures of us too!
Mon. 20- I did a lot of
random things today... non of them
worth mentioning really... except the
highlight of my day... seeing my
nephew after so many months away!!! I got to visit
little Joshua along with my
cousin and
godmother for some much needed
catch-up! Can you tell this aunt's
slightly obsessed with him??? How can you not be... look at those
big eyes,
cheeks, and
smile! He is just the
sweetest baby and I am
so sad I won't be around to
watch him grow up more regularly...
thank goodness for
facebook and
twitter!!!
Tue. 21- I have definitely been
enjoying myself at home!!! Nothing but
good food and
even better company!!! To illustrate I thought the below
pictures would be
appropriate. My lunch, in what I like to call an
eclectic collection of all things
I love... that my
mom got for me! What to
eat first...
why I chose??? I'll just
sample it all:
grapes, cream cheese
shusi rolls, multi-grain
tortilla scoops with spicy
salsa, multi-grain
crackers with
hummus,
pistachios, and freshly squeezed
orange juice... yum! And the
company, well you've heard me talk about the
family a great deal already this week... but these guys are
two of my favorites and just as
important as the rest...
Caramel and
Jamba.
Caramel is a
chihuahua mix we've had for
13 yrs, but don't let
age fool you! He's as
feisty and
lively as he was
years back. And
Jamba is a
german-shepard we've had for
5 yrs... she is
lovable and has so much
personality you wouldn't believe! Glad to have them around for this week...
a girl's best friends =)
Wed. 22- Remember these
cuties??? Well I got
hang out with them all evening long! I had dinner at my
godfather's and the
whole gang came over to
greet me. I got to
mingle with all of
cousin's and their
adorable little gang aka my
models. We had a
blast catching up (the adults) and
playing all kinds of gun games (the kids). There was even a
new version of arm wrestling I'm pretty sure that
we made up and I got to see a really
cool video that
Jenny (one of the mommy's) put together during the shoot. I have to figure out how to
upload it, but don't fret...
it shall be done real soon!
So to
wrap it up some... it's
obviously not Thursday anymore but we can
pretend... just as obvious, not all of this post was
lived in London so the title should really be
Friday London/Miami love... I have seen
a lot of family...
eaten a lot of good food... and gotten my
complete fill of babies/toddlers/kids until my next visit at Xmas!!!
What have you been up to???
***Today I am thankful for the wonderful babies, toddlers, and now kids in my life... who needs kids of their own when I can just spoil these***
