From Mom To Mom

I miss you Fellow Bloggers and Blogging World!!!!!

2009-12-01T19:48:00.001-07:00

UFFF! It’s been more than a month since I last blogged! I can’t believe it! I am so sorry for not being around! I’ve been so busy!!!!! I need to finish my research to be able to finish by next semester and between ups and downs… I am busy like a bee! This is also my husband’s last class, and he is working on an interesting project, so I am helping him around too… What has happened since my last

<< Homework Routines… How do you deal with it? >>

2009-10-28T07:30:00.000-06:00

Robert Enrique, as many of you know, is in a Montessori school. They give NO Homework like other schools. He is in Kindergarten. Private schools and some public are another story… What is it with our schools that they bomb our kids with homework? They barely have time to play and distract themselves from the day at school! Back in my days, we carried a huge backpack, filled with 5 subjects

Halloween is here and some party ideas!!!!

2009-10-27T10:22:00.001-06:00

“Trick or Treat, Halloween, Dame Chavos, NO mani, NO te escondas que te vi, en la casa del Coqui” We are planning both a personal party at home with friends and a party for the community. Along with other friends we brainstormed ideas for the party and came with pretty nice ones! Halloween Games 101 has great ideas if you want to do a party at home. I like the printable because these are

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2009-10-21T07:41:00.001-06:00

Kids go through stages in terms of bath time. But Robert takes just too long taking a shower just because he stands there, under the warm water just warming himself! There have been SEVERAL times my husband and I have to wait for water to be warm again because there is no more hot water when we get in the shower! I have explained Robert that he cannot take that much time in there doing that… #1

<< 6 year old “Balloon Boy” at my town found “napping in the attic”? >>

2009-10-16T08:28:00.001-06:00

OMG! I am just… plain mad! Yesterday this boy apparently got inside this homemade balloon air craft and the whole US looking for him and he was “napping in the attic”? I was talking to my mom yesterday and she told me she almost fainted when she knew… For a second without second thoughts she thought this might be my son! WTH?! Boy + Fort Collins+ 6yo + meteorological balloon…. hahahahaha Hello

<< Not so easy when we are busy at school but there must be always time to share >>

2009-10-13T22:43:00.001-06:00

This month is like hell of work for both of us. We’ve been so busy that is getting us crazy! But even in the busiest times, spouse support is a must in order to survive! My husband and I have like a telepathy communication as I call it hahaha… When he is busy I keep Robert entertained and watch out that he doesn’t interrupt my DH’s inspiration moments. He does the same for me. I like a switch. We

Track Swagcodes at my Blog!!!

2009-10-13T10:31:00.003-06:00

Track Swagcodes here!!! I installed the widget! (right panel of the blog) Just press Swagcode (4th button) and check if there is any Swagcode available!!! TODAY TODAY TODAY there is going to be a bunch of codes... celebrating the 100K fans from Facebook. So watch it out today!!!! If you don't know what is Swagbucks.. for starters you get 3 swagbucks just for signing in..... use my referal!!!

<< The TOOTH FAIRY was here!!! Defending my first time parent point of view…>>

2009-10-12T13:50:00.001-06:00

Weeee… Robert lost his first tooth yesterday night. He’s been more than a week with his first wiggly tooth. But once again, it reminds me how I can’t handle things like this. I get nervous, stressed… Thank God, my husband is the brave one here! I know! It might sound simple to you, but for me… is kind of a phobia when Robert gets hurt! And a tooth as far as I can remember was stressful. I

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2009-10-10T11:34:00.001-06:00

I am so exited! I have no words! We’ve been living in Fort Collins for almost 5 years and we got used to use coupons when doing groceries in order to be able to live in a student budget. I was wondering how this can be introduced in Puerto Rico since we don’t receive the inserts as you guys in the Sunday newspapers. Procter and Gamble has made the initiative to introduce these precisely

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2009-10-07T08:37:00.001-06:00

Green is Gold! Or so they say! There is a lot of information in the web about being green, eco-conscious, eco-friendly, and environmentally responsible of our daily choices. From the moment you wake up and brush your teeth (Are you saving water?), until you to to sleep (Is it really necessary the air conditioner?). In the in-between there is food, groceries, transportation, construction, work,

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2009-10-05T11:51:00.001-06:00

Lately I have been more careful in terms of buying stuff that are more eco-friendly. My alter eco-consciousness! hahaha Specially when it comes to food related, I double check. Today I was running some errands and needed to buy a pitcher for the juice given that the one that we had I gave away because it was not working for us anymore (not going into the yucky details). So I recently read about

<< BPA Free Rubbermaid picture list and plastic number meanings review>>

2009-10-04T21:47:00.001-06:00

<< I am here… back to reality: Healthy, Work, World Fest and me wearing a hijab >>

2009-10-01T22:05:00.001-06:00

After being sick for almost a week, I am now as good as new!!!! Drawback… getting back to reality and get up to date at work! Bah! Lot’s has happened since then that I haven’t had time to blog but here a little update. I was feeling better by Wednesday but that Thursday Robert got a high fever at school and his dad brought him home. Oh well, that required a stop at the supermarket to get some

<< Three days of hell and now where is heaven?? >>

2009-09-24T10:43:00.001-06:00

Yeah… how bad when you have lots to do and your body says… “No way!” You try ‘Oh yeah!’ and your body shouts ‘Nah ah!’… Barely moving, barely speaking, barely eating, it was no life! And were are my essential oils? Missing in action! Somewhere… in a box… from the move. Bah! Today I came to life!!!! Whoohooo! I thought it was going to last for ever… Fever, body ache, some cough, headaches like

<< Tres Leches Cake Recipe>>

2009-09-21T10:42:00.001-06:00

This weekend I had an activity at home, where we cooked a dish and swapped the recipes. I baked a Tres Leches cake. I love this cake because for me is a non-stop eating one! Is so yummy you can never have enough! So here I share it with you… INGREDIENTS Cake: 1 box of sponge cake OR 1 stick of butter; 1 cup of sugar; 4 egg yolks, 1 cup of cake flour*; 4 egg whites; 1 teaspoon of vanilla or

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2009-09-17T07:35:00.001-06:00

Celebrating my First Amazon Gift Card with Swagbucks !!! If you are not using it GIVE IT A TRY! I am excited because I just redeemed my first Amazon Gift Card (for $5) by using Swagbucks (I already redeemed it at Amazon and worked like a charm). There is stuff in the internet that until you try it you don’t believe it’s true. How many of you are using it? I am curious how has been your

<<3 Green Informational Sources Links>>

2009-09-15T08:15:00.001-06:00

Here three Green Links with interesting information. I hope you enjoy them… Never Buy Cleaning Supplies Again! Make These 8 Cleaners at Home: Loved the #2 idea. Never thought of it! 15 Easy Ways to Really Cut Your Consumption: We have cut our consumption considerably by only recycling but these ideas are realistic ones. I love #1, completely agree with #2 and would love to experiment with

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2009-09-14T08:50:00.001-06:00

Many have asked? WHY did you moved 5 apartments away? Why not stay??? Well, long story short, I lived in a townhouse style apartment with 2 bedrooms and moved into a flat apartment with 3 bedrooms. Why I prefer the flat? I’ve always liked flat style homes. I don’t like stairs. Specially when I moved into my first house in Puerto Rico I hurt my knees badly and now the consequences are for life!

<< Remembering 911, what happened that day, 8 years ago and embracing my life today >>

2009-09-11T10:14:00.001-06:00

What can I say… 8 years ago I was at a conference organized by the student organization I was president of back then. I was pulled out of the conference to be told about the first strike. Then pulled out when the second plane did it too. It was my job to let the attendants know about what was going on and with a broken voice I did and dismissed the conference. It was total chaos back at the

I wish all of you had RSS feed option in your blogs!!!!! PLEASE READ!

2009-09-09T21:46:00.001-06:00

Hi fellow bloggers! I don’t know how you get organized to read all the blogs or websites you follow, but me? I use Google Reader. I like it because I use all the Google stuff and Reader is one of my favorites (even though it can improve). As I try to follow your posts and try to comment in as many as I can, it was ridiculously impossible! I am following around 300 blogs/websites!!!! So I

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2009-09-07T21:07:00.001-06:00

Dehydrate 2 Store is definitely one of my favorite websites. I came across it when searching for dehydrating food videos on Youtube. Then I came across Tammy’s video series on How to Dehydrate and store food and totally fell in love with them! Her videos really teach you how to start dehydrating food for short or long term storage. She is an awesome teacher in the subject. In her series

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2009-09-04T19:57:00.001-06:00

Today we were just told! We are moving next Saturday to a new apartment. But this one is a flat one, not a two story one like the one we live in. I AM SO HAPPY! When we moved here we requested a one story apartment but there were none available. So we settled for the two story one but hated hated hated the stairs! These stairs are steep and I have injured my knees (which were injured already) 4

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2009-09-03T13:04:00.002-06:00

When most of us blog for fun, some of us don’t mind some extra bucks when blogging. Most of the ways out there depend on traffic or pay per clicks. This is great when you have a website with thousands of faithful readers. But what about us that have just a few hundreds and not so “clicker” readers? Looking for something else I came across LinkWorth. I don’t know how many of you have know about

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2009-09-03T12:19:00.001-06:00

Once I read a post about scheduling a month or semester ahead things you would like to do. Since we are very busy with our studies I decided to at least make a list to stuff I would like to do before moving back to Puerto Rico. This way at least I have a plan. One of the things I wanted to do is Raspberry Picking. This is the second year I knew about raspberry picking near by my house (at

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2009-08-31T08:59:00.001-06:00

Today it was Robert Enrique’s first day of Kindergarten. He’s been in pre-school in that school for 1.5 yr and recently started their summer camp for 2 weeks. But now… is official. Today he is in Kindergarden and get to go to the “upstairs classroom” where the elementary goes. He’s being very excited about going to Kindergarden. The whole summer he was looking forward to it. Some might think,