tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31252412024-02-19T01:59:52.751-05:00the nanaheadit's all happeningUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-71125845490599572452011-10-06T01:57:00.002-04:002011-10-06T02:04:43.429-04:00i have the best husband in the world. we have four kids and i homeschool three of them. i love them to pieces and wouldn't trade this life in for any other. i am fortunate to have incredible perspective on this matter, having been in the workforce for nearly a decade, three of those years juggling job and kids.i am happy. truly. happy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-66186315267712603582010-06-22T23:10:00.003-04:002010-06-22T23:32:13.005-04:00i'm recovering from a long, exhausting - yet very fun - weekend. we went to chicago. porta graduated from kellog with his mba and we wouldn't have missed it. so we went. my weekend started on thursday. but let's back up to wednesday and the 12 loads of laundry i did because it had been a week since i had done any laundry and we needed clean clothes to take on our trip. have you ever done 12Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-5916607837084024012010-04-14T22:38:00.002-04:002010-04-14T23:15:58.013-04:00a year ago i was getting ready to staff my very last relay. i was constantly anxious and stressed about work and i just couldn't shake it off. it's such a good cause, but, man, the work just beats you down. it was like a dark cloud looming around my shoulders, engulfing my head and not letting me out. my poor family never got all of me when i was with them. i'd be home, but my head would be Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-3910685286541952732010-02-18T23:21:00.004-05:002010-02-18T23:44:06.618-05:00two days ago, i attended the funeral for a baby girl. she was born with down's syndrome and a weak heart and the Lord decided that it was too much for her to keep fighting...He took that precious, precious life into His arms at just 5 days old.i cannot express the pain and sadness that i felt as i watched her 10 brothers and sisters weep over her tiny white coffin. uncle, father and 2 brothers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-39005759355505285602010-01-26T13:57:00.001-05:002010-01-26T13:57:57.234-05:00p90x. day 18. i don't think i've ever worked out daily for this long in my life. not even during the dancing days of college. i think by far yoga is my favorite...i can hardly do the balance poses, but it's still fun to try. it feels more like a dance than a workout. i don't even care that it's 90 minutes. (i'll do yoga over plyometrics any day.) regardless, the post-workout soreness feels good.iUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-16873970584636418352009-09-11T19:48:00.002-04:002009-09-11T20:04:55.511-04:00baby agustin #4 is now online!can it be that it has taken me this long to blog about my tiniest boy? eric did a really good job with the details again, so you can always visit his blog for a re-cap if you haven't already.i'm not gonna lie. i'm ti-red. (it deserved two syllables - i'm that tired.) but life is good. i couldn't ask for more. i'm finally home with my boys and giving them more Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-34958170232056498872009-07-29T00:47:00.003-04:002009-07-29T01:15:59.248-04:00a presumably uneventful week has become somewhat eventful. i think i received the most phone calls yesterday (monday) than i have in one day in a while...all dear friends checking on the status of baby xavier's arrival. he's still en womb...doesn't seem like he's in any hurry at all to get out.then there was this morning. tuesday, 7/28, xavier's estimated due date. got a call from the senior Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-65898877247332210352009-07-21T20:28:00.003-04:002009-07-21T20:31:20.889-04:00ethan's birthday has come and gone. i got my wish and did not spend his birthday at the hospital giving birth to his new baby brother. i would have been so sad if i couldn't spend ethan's birthday with him. eric and i took just ethan to mcdonald's for lunch and then went to chuck e. cheese with the rest of the fam. he asked me this morning if it was still his birthday. when i told him no he Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-19162991476069796972009-06-24T09:58:00.003-04:002009-06-24T10:18:38.848-04:00i'm not sure that i've ever done this...blog at work (at this job). it's definitely an indication of the change that is about to come. things are winding down...this morning i had a hard time getting out of bed. i've been so exhausted. i could blame it on the fact that i'm in my 9th month of pregnancy, but the reality is that i've been staying up way too late. (darn, bejeweled blitz! i Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-67974922654618202722009-06-08T13:50:00.001-04:002009-06-08T13:50:27.283-04:00t-minus one month and 2 days...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-84115662162667672642009-04-30T01:03:00.002-04:002009-04-30T01:09:23.665-04:00i have a relay in three days. for whatever reason, i have not been overcome by a wave of anxiety and panic. it could be that i don't care...that's probably only a tiny bit true. i think it's more that i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-26999948796905643692009-03-01T22:06:00.001-05:002009-03-01T22:06:54.775-05:00what do you name a 4th baby boy agustin????Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-37635919075223269382009-02-16T22:34:00.002-05:002009-02-16T23:30:06.743-05:00if there was ever a time that i was getting my butt kicked, it was nothing compared to 2009. we are six weeks into the new year, and i'm fried. physically, i can't find enough time in the day. emotionally, i can't divide myself into more pieces. the work-life balance is not so balanced. i'm feeling a lot of sadness because work pulls me away from eric and the boys a lot these days. i knew Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-21476412745949484202008-12-17T18:20:00.002-05:002008-12-17T18:25:15.053-05:00i've been collecting the state quarters for 10 years. in just a couple weeks, all of the state quarters will have been issued. it's the only thing i've ever collected. i have them all (thanks to help from connie and donna who always kept me in mind whenever they got change)...except the non-contiguous states. i just need alaska and hawaii and my collection will be complete!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-10726742082585312372008-10-22T22:07:00.002-04:002008-10-22T22:19:07.907-04:00my scramble skills are deteriorating. i randomly played several games of scramble with one of my high school classmates. we weren't really friends in high school yet we were facebook scramble buddies. i ran into her at the finish line of our breast cancer walk last saturday. it's funny how much closer facebook makes people to one another.the three-hour time difference between michigan and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-12943166824362561542008-09-12T21:38:00.001-04:002008-09-12T21:38:45.149-04:00there is no time to blog. only time to play scramble.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-82855822625777562092008-07-17T11:52:00.002-04:002008-07-17T12:58:16.147-04:00i got the call this morning at 10 a.m. it was eric. "The United States' chances of winning gold in women's soccer at next month's Olympics were dealt a major blow Wednesday when striker Abby Wambach suffered a broken leg in a friendly against Brazil.":O!!!!!!!!!!i love love love the u.s. women's soccer teams so this news is so upsetting. wambach is out for at least 12 weeks...meaning she's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-34532878280298818972008-07-13T23:31:00.003-04:002008-07-13T23:49:12.242-04:00summer is half over. it has been eventful so far...isaiah finishing his first year of school, road trip to jersey for a wedding, road trip to cheboygan to join the guevaras for their first weekend in their new home, relay after relay, ryan's surprise party (er, parties), new babies, plenty of hanging out - especially with rob, ellen, noah, and ellie....the rest of the summer is going to fly by. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-14600435030422736292008-06-20T11:15:00.003-04:002008-06-20T11:34:47.959-04:00i'm still recovering from our trip to new jersey last weekend. we drove. the 10 hour trip to new jersey turned into a 20 hour one because we decided to be smart and crash in a hotel instead of trying to drive through the night. the 10 hour trip home was really 11.5, thanks to angels and demons on audio book. i swear if i had to, i could drive across the country listening to that book. the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-26315401072012331702008-05-19T22:59:00.002-04:002008-05-19T23:37:25.379-04:00so the day after my last post was probably the worst day of work that i have ever had. it was probably the most humbling as well, so i am thankful for it. i have been working my butt off with more focus and accomplishment ever since.it has been a rough six weeks returning to work. these weeks have been hard. on me, on eric, on our family. and the laundry has piled up again. i swear it will Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-25827638360639337292008-04-23T22:26:00.002-04:002008-04-23T22:34:41.734-04:00i am exhausted and overwhelmed. i hate to admit that i am either of these things because it makes me feel weak and incompetent, which i hate. i have been able to will myself to push through anything up until now. the truth is that i am exhausted. i have run out of steam. my body just does not want to keep up with all the things my mind wants it to do. there are not enough hours in the day orUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-31911526193327428422008-03-27T21:53:00.002-04:002008-03-27T22:50:12.365-04:00today was my last full day with my boys before heading back to work. my maternity leave officially ends tomorrow. after that, it's just another weekend.we spent a few hours today getting our butts kicked by isaiah at wii sports. (yes, eric too!) isaiah actually mercied eric in baseball. isaiah hit 9 homeruns in the first inning and eric could not hang. ha. i think one of the reasons that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-68055565270403583682008-03-18T22:10:00.002-04:002008-03-18T22:25:23.301-04:00less than two weeks left of maternity leave. the nice part is that isaiah is off of school all next week for spring break, so i will have to make sure that i take advantage of the rest of my time off with the boys.owen is HUGE. at least compared to when he was born. i'm guessing he's pushing 9 pounds by now. 7 weeks old. how did 7 weeks go by already? he has to wear mittens because he Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-73200891187752730442008-03-02T01:12:00.001-05:002008-03-02T01:14:42.054-05:00let it be known that today i am officially caught up with the laundry!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-13942893727570645402008-02-28T14:13:00.003-05:002008-02-28T14:26:45.896-05:00i met eric in 1995. i was 15 and a sophomore and he was 17 on the verge of turning 18 and a senior. he invited me to his birthday party at his house where i knew exactly 1 person: him. my brother came with me since he was also friends with eric...it also happened that a couple of his friends (that i didn't know) were also at the party. i don't remember remember having much fun at the party Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0