back to school they go!

the kid's winter break is finally over. they went back to school today. it's hard to get back into the swing of things when you've had 16 days off. but here we are ... life as usual ...


what a year 'team cueva' has had. i'd love to do a year in review. i think i will attempt it in a different manner, though. for me it just sounds too overwhelming to sit and write about a whole year at once.

our year has definitely been full of many ups and downs (forget that, isn't life in general full of peaks and valleys?), of course.

january of '07 was the beginning of a journey that when i look back at it i say "whoa, did we really do that!!?" after much prayer and wise counsel, carlos and i made a decision, as of 1/1/07, to move clear across the country to a foreign land, to all but carlos, called california. january '07 was full of many many tears as we told close family and friends what was going to take place. actually, as i think more about it, i think at this point we still had to be very closed lipped about it. i guess the 'many many tear's' belonged to me. i wish i could remember when exactly we started telling people (i'll have to ask los, he'll know) but i do remember each persons reaction when we told them. wow, i hated not being able to talk about it just yet. but thankfully, i took one very dear friend along for the ride. she was able to process and just hear me vent and see the tears and just, very simply, be listening ears. that i needed, but for those of you that know me well, keeping my mouth shut isn't one of my strong suits.

work on our home began (or should i say began to be finished?) 9 years of renovations needed to be completed so we could put our house up for sale. so, what started was a very gruelling process. many lists were made, and remade as time progressed. i don't think i've ever seen los work so hard - and i mean that in a good way, not negatively. but it is amazing what a little motivation will do to a man - heehee.

another thing that came along with the decision we made was thinking, in everything we do, ... 'this will probably be the last time we do this with so and so,' that's a hard concept to live by. but one that makes you appreciate WHAT you have WHEN you have it.


january '07 now has it spot in our memories. i'm wishing i could remember more ... and if i do, you'll be the first to know.

thanks for reading! ...
nic