cultivating me

Happy Birthday Luis I’ve started this post so many times over the past week and words have not seem to come to me.  Today you turned  13 – THIRTEEN LUIS!  – and I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around this fact.  I don’t know why it is hard for me to [...]

I’ll be the first to admit that teenagers offer their own special challenges but for the most part, I think they get a bad rap.  My son turns 13 this coming weekend and each day this week I have been gifting him 13 of things.  Nothing too fancy but just little things to have some [...]

I wonder how much longer I’ll be able to call you that before you start to complain that you aren’t so little anymore?  You’re not you know – you are not so little any more Enrique -  you are getting so big.  I find it hard to believe that you are nine years old today.  [...]

My beautiful daughter…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! (this is where a picture of the princess herself goes but the add image button on my blog is broken) Oh Danielle where do I begin? Today you’re 14 – FOURTEEN!!!! This is so hard for me to believe. I don’t think that I am quite ready for it. I just [...]

  Luis you’re 12! Can you believe it? I can’t!!!! Oh how much I love you big guy! You will always be my favorite birthday present EVER! I remember when I learned you were coming into my life….I was a bit scared but so happy at the same time. I was excited to be having [...]

happy birthday jenn! today you are 33! you think this is old at times, especially when you sit next to the 18 yr olds in your classes.  and in other moments you realize just how much growing you have yet to do. you are thankful for those moments because, unlike those 18 year olds, you [...]

Enrique today is your birthday!!! You’re 8!!! I cannot believe it!! You are such a wonderful boy and every day you are growing into what I know will be a wonderful man. You are sensitive and extremely kind, always trying to find a compromise or fair solution for every one. You are not scared to [...]

I love birthdays!! I do not know how to express that enough – it possibly border lines as an obsession when someone I love has a birthday. For me it is always about making sure the other person knows they are special. After all, if you didn’t have a birthday, you wouldn’t be here and [...]

this friday, april 13th (yes that’s friday the 13th) my oldest child and only daughter turns 13! Eeek a teenager…..nooooooo say it aint so! i cannot believe that my precious little baby girl is already 13 years old. fellow moms out there – you know what i mean: these monkeys grow up way too fast! [...]