Boricua en la Lima

Last week was rough...kids were sick, it was my first week at work, and Jose was out of town. To top that off at the end of the week of course I was sick too. We ended up not going to the beach for the weekend cause the kids kept having fevers every other day. One day one kid was fine and the other one had a fever and the other day it was flipped. This week things are finally starting to feel a bit more under control. I´m feeling a little less frazzled at work, Jose can help a little bit in the mornings and the kids are finally coming out of being sick and starting to go to all their summer activities so I don´t feel like a horrible mom for not being with them while they´re sick. Hopefully tomorrow we can make it back out to the beach house and relax a bit this weekend!

I yelled at the kids probably more than I should've this morning. I broke a hair brush trying to get Gabi to listen to me! I wanted them to understand it was my first day of work and it was so important to me and could they just behave for ONE day!?! Of course they were totally oblivious to how important today was to me, why should they understand? Gabi actually wanted to come to the office with me! Jose is traveling this week too and that didn't help with the morning routine. Funny thing was I was just sad to leave them and was acting out. Of course I was a bit stressed because I wanted my first day of work to go smoothly and it wasn't going smoothly at all. But of course I should've never expected it to go smoothly, not with two young children in the house! But more than anything I was just sad to leave them after so long. I cried a few times before actually walking through the office doors.  I felt like coming back from maternity leave times ten.  Because now they...

I am hoping '13 is my lucky number.  I hope so for everyone out there too! We had a nice relaxing (and long) beach weekend for NYE and while the kids are almost saying "the sun is too much" at this point (and it's only the beginning of the summer!), they are definitely enjoying the water more and more this year.  Last year Sebas wouldn't even go in the water because it's so cold (he takes after me in that respect, preferring the warm waters of the Caribbean to the icy Pacific).  But this year they have found joy in beach toys, floaties and boogie boards!  Not to mention ice cream.  I hope this last weekend is a sign of how fun this summer will be for them.  And I hope sunblock makers really know what they're doing, especially with Sebas beacuse he's so pale! Gabi's already got the most enviable tan ever.