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As sweet as a cookie

26 May

I realized I haven’t posted much about Dallas lately, so here are a few pictures:

We visited a few museums on Mother’s Day

Dallas May 09 033He got me this beautiful bouquet of flowers. I started to cry the second I saw him coming!

3554597127_9376fd9cd7_mWe got season passes to Six Flags and he loves the rides!

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There was a DJ playing music and he started to dance

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And our friend Dave won a monkey with long legs and a hat and Dallas fell in love with him. He named him George (he watches a lot of Curious George episodes) and tells him that he loves him all the time. It’s adorable!IMG00198-20090523-1938

My apologies for being sideways.

Anyway, there’s my little man, he comes up with the funniest things every day. He’s a keeper.

 
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Posted by on May 26, 2009 in Dallas

 

And to think I wanted him to talk

26 Jan

Ever since he turned 1, I hoped for the day he would open that cute little mouth and say ‘Momma!’ or ‘I love you’ or something sweet like that. But I’ve been robbed, Internet. My kid doesn’t say ‘I love you’. He says worse.

We have a really good friend and he’s single. So of course the gay jokes will come flooding every time we get together. Now that we live in SF, the jokes are even worse. But it’s good fun, right? Well, it was until a little someone learned to say something. And the worst part is that the whole thing is hilarious. Go ahead, think what you want, we still think he’s funny.

We sorta taught him to call our good friend a homo. Yep, proud parent moment right there. So now, he points to whoever, usually just Ben and me, and goes: “Homo?” Wanna hear the latest one? “Hoochie?”

In our defense he says other appropriate things, like when we sneeze he says “Bess you”, and when we hand him something he says “Senk you, nu gelcom” (thank you, you’re welcome). But that’s probably not enough, right?

But things like that is what put a smile on our faces, that make us laugh when we really need it, that breaks the I-want-to-throw-you-out-the-window thought whenever he throws one of his wonderful tantrums. It’s all part of raising a 2 year old. And while I still haven’t heard him tell me that he loves me, and I cannot understand half of what he’s telling me, hell, I’ll take Hoochie any day.

He got that one right ;)

 
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Posted by on January 26, 2009 in Dallas, me

 

I’m a Fog City Mom

05 Dec

Yeah. We live in San Francisco, baby. We’ve been talking about living here for a few years now and everyone who knows me in person has heard at some point something that goes along the lines of “in a couple of months”. It turned into over 2 years. But here we are. And we love it.

I was homesick the first few days mainly because this is a huge city, with many little streets and the only way we didn’t end up on the ocean or in Death Valley by accident was because we carried around a big ass map like idiots. And it helped. It’s intimidating to drive around in a place like this but after being here for 10 days I feel a little more comfortable being out and about. I’ve taken long walks on great neighborhoods, I’ve riden the bus alone at night and with Dallas in the middle of the day. I don’t know which one is scarrier.

Speaking of Dallas, so far he’s been doing well, we have to teach him to wait for the light to let us cross the street and make sure he holds our hands, something we didn’t have to do in Utah. I can count with 2 hands the times we had to cross a street over there. Totally different world.

Also, the worst part was not knowing if we were going to find a place to live soon. We’ve been living in motels, hotels and my parents house for the last 2 months and I’m not even kidding when I say that I miss cooking and cleaning (can you hear the Apocalypse coming?). We did find a place, a really nice place and a huge weight lifted off our shoulders the moment we were told we got the apartment. It’s nearby a university, accross the street from a lake, a few minutes from the City Zoo and many other things.

A lot of people asked me why we were moving from the place where we knew everyone, where we had a beautiful home in a beautiful state. Well, we seriously needed a fresh start. In that same place where we had so many good things like the ones mentioned above, we also had many terrible things happen to us. And we needed to get away, to see if our life would get better somewhere else, where we had no memories whatsoever, where we could create new, beautiful ones.

My heart will always be in Utah, I met my husband, I had my children, I made many wonderful friendships and my family still lives there. But sometimes you need to get out of your “comfort zone” and start over. I really, really hope this city welcomes us and let us create those new, awesome memories we desperately need.

 
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Posted by on December 5, 2008 in Dallas, life, me, The San Francisco Adventure, Utah

 

The 2 year old is an “interesting” human being…

01 Oct

There’s 2 things I learned working at this particular job:

1. I will never, EVER work with my child by my side again. Sure, I really appreciate our supervisor letting me go to work with Dallas and even letting me go back to the house so he could take his daily nap. But I didn’t get a lot of work done with him and it took me forever to go from one building to the next, he slowed me down a lot! 

2. My next job will require a degree higher then a high school diploma. Although it was something easy I could do and it gave us some much needed money, it is not something I want to do for a living. This job gave me the push I need to get my GED and earn my CNA certification. 

I wanted to say those two things about this job. The title refers to someone else. Dallas turned 2 a couple of weeks ago. He was a great baby his first year. WAS. The other day he threw a full blown tantrum at Walgreens. Complete with throwing himself on the floor in the Hallmark aisle. I should have handed him a Get Well card or something.

I honestly was not ready for tantrums. My patience is very short lived and that’s something I need to change. Another thing about the Walgreens episode. Whenever I walked past someone, they were smiling at me. You should have seen the look on my face. FAR from a smile. Was it a humorous situation? I don’t think so. Maybe they were pitying me. Where’s the Mind-Your-Own-Damn-Business card section? Because everyone would have gotten a card from me that day.

 
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Posted by on October 1, 2008 in Dallas, life, me

 

Weekend trips

22 Sep

Since Ben and I work Monday through Friday (Ben works some Saturdays too) Sundays are our Day Off/Little Road Trip time. The first weekend we were together in beautiful Gillette (not even close) we went to Devils Tower, about an hour from Gillette. It’s this awesome rock formation almost 900 feet tall. It was amazing to walk the trail all around it. I took some pictures. Dallas didn’t think much of it or it’s way to big to comprehend but he still had a good time. We had lunch and bought a magnet. Then we drove around Sundance hometown of The Sundance Kid but the museum was closed. 

Then on Monday the 15th my little man turned 2. Since we live in a house with some strangers we just bought a cake and we sang Happy Birthday to him. He’ll have a decent party when we come back home. He almost blew the candle though!!

Yesterday we were off to South Dakota. Our first stop was Crazy Horse Monument. A sculptor was asked by the Native Americans to build a monument in honor of their people so he found a mountain in the Black Hills Forest and started to sculpt it with a few tools and some dynamite. After he died his children continued the project. It is not finished and I’m sure it’ll take a few more decades since it’s not state or federal funded. The money comes from the people that visit it every year. We were happy to give our money to it, what a great cause.

After that we drove a few miles to Mount Rushmore. I was really excited to visit something I’ve seen in movies and just pictures, I actually never thought I’d see it in person! This monument is not finished either, but the difference with Crazy Horse is that Rushmore will probably never be completed. I’m sure it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to complete it and it is managed by the National Park Service, a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior. The government needs to focus the money on other issues. 

It is a beautiful memorial, I enjoyed the views and the Ranger Tour we took. Dallas was not in the best of moods, he didn’t have a nap and the kid likes to take his time and explore. We liked it so much and since we’re so close to it we might come back next weekend. Our last one here.

I’m ready to move on, to start new things, to see new places with my hubby and my son. I can’t wait!!

 
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Posted by on September 22, 2008 in ben, Dallas, life, me

 
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