"I think my water broke"

"I think my water broke" were the words that my wife told me on Dec.5. I looked at her and was like what do u mean your water broke. My son wasn't supposed to be here till Dec 12. I took my wife to the hospital were they confirmed that it was her water that had broke.

It was already about 11am when the doc then came in said they were going to go ahead and do the c-section @1:30pm boy was I nervous. I then called my family to let them know my son was coming. 1:30 came around and the doc came and gave me this gown and head cap to put on before they took my wife into the operating room.

As I was waiting very calmly I then heard my son let out a loud but healthy cry. As my eyes filled with tears of joy I leaned over and gave my a kiss and told her how much loved her I then looked at my son again and realized how much hair he had on his little head and boy did he have a head full of hair.

The nurse then asked me to cut the cord witch wasn't very easy "boy those things are hard to cut". The nurse cleaned my son up and handed him to me were then I took him over to let my wife see are bundle of joy. The nurse said that I could take my son to the nursery Witch I took my time doing very nervously.

At the end of the hall before the nursery was family and friends ready to take pictures like the pauperize. After everyone was done taking there pictures of my beautiful son I then carried him into the nursery were they then weighed him at 7lbs,3.5oz,19inches long.

Man was I one proud father again I was stuck on cloud nine witch I'm still there. January 5Th my son turned a month old boy does time fly by. Well that's my fourth experience becoming a father again hope you enjoyed it I sure did.

Prayer

Whether or not you believe in prayer or God, people tend to lean on prayer,
in time of crisis or need.

I think we live in our own little world, sometimes we don't think that people can go through the same things we do, but one thing is for sure we all bleed red and we all have emotion. Somewhere deep inside I think we do care about other peoples needs and concerns.

I have to say that prayer is an important part of the human race in order to survive life. We can not suppress it anymore.

"SPECIAL DAY"

We have a lot reasons why to say "TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY".
Simply for having the opportunity to enjoy another day with the people that we love,is special.We should feel fortunate to live another day in this complicated life. A lot of times we are frustated about things that are not important. To find the real hapiness only you have to glance inside yourself and you will find it.

"Remember life is a challenge".

Sometimes Interesting

The day after "Black Friday," I got up out of bed and went into the kitchen. I made some coffee and sat down to look through the newspaper.

Just then, something caught my eye that had happened at a Wal-Mart in New York. About two thousand people were waiting in front for the store to open up. When the store opened up, an employee opened the front doors and got trampled to death and they just kept on going in.

I thought to myself "What has become of this generation of people?" Everybody is looking out for themselves. It seems like we have lost the value of life.

This generation has lost the true meaning of Christmas, not "X-mas".
It's all about Jesus Christ and His birth. We have become numb and have lost our morals. What a shame.

Falling

I remember, about eight years ago, I purchased a two-cycle motor scooter. It had small tires and was low to the ground. If you were to go fast on the scooter, it would be very scary because it was only made to go a certain speed. Well, I improved the engine a little to make it go faster.

For the next few days, I rode all over the neighborhood. It was quite loud because I had put a bigger muffler and carborator on it. One evening, I asked my ten year old daughter to go for a ride with me. We had ridden it before together, so she was comfortable with it. However, this night was different.

We rode at night because of less traffic, so she felt safe. We went to ride around at the school parking lot. We were on the sidewalk. I don't know what I was thinking. Suddenly, we were on the edge of the curb, and I thought I could jump off the curb with my daughter on the front of the scooter. Just then, we went forward, going head-first into the ground. To keep my daughter's face from being "roadkill", I put my hand in front of her face, and her face hit my hand and broke my wrist. She was pretty shaken up. We then walked home, talking about our experience.

Since then, she has never ridden with me again.

9 months and counting

"I'm Pregnant" were the words my wife told me on my birthday on April 26Th, 2008. I was so ecstatic to find out I was going to be a father for the 4Th time. It was the best birthday present any one could could have given me. About 5 months months into the pregnancy it was time to have an ultrasound to find out what we were having.

My wife and I were both hoping for a girl because we already have three wonderful boys. The day came for an ultra sound, boy was I nervous. "Its a boy!" said the doc. My wife then looked at me. At that time I thought I was dead. But we were both just so happy as long as our baby came out healthy. I was kind of relieved because if I was to have a little girl I would have to hurt any boy that would try and talk to my little girl.

Later on in the pregnancy we were able to schedule a c-section for my baby because my last son was 9lbs 8oz. We then scheduled the c-section date for Dec 12Th, 2008. We are now at Dec 4Th with only 8 more days till little Josiah is here. Being a father to Christopher, Tyler, and Ramon I still getting butterflies in my stomach just like when I became a father for the first time.

Live Mocha

I've just discovered an interesting website for learning a second language! It's called LiveMocha, and it's like a cross between a language class and Facebook. You create an account (it's free!) and work through lessons for the language you want to learn, but you can also chat with native speakers, make friends, and get encouragement from other people. One of my friends is learning Spanish right now from it, and loves it! You can't get to the link here at school, but you can do it at home if you want. I haven't tried it, so I don't know exactly how it works, but I just wanted you to know about it. Good luck!

My life as an Army wife

Eight years ago I met the man of my dreams. When I first met him I knew immediately that he was the one. After getting to know him I found out that he was leaving for the army at the end of the school year. "I was so upset". When he left I knew I had to be strong for him and myself.

All my friends and family told me that I couldn't handle it and that the relationship would not last. Right after boot camp he got deployed to Iraq for the first time. I think it was the scariest time of my life, because I did not know if he was going to come back. I prayed everyday that he would be OK, and that he would come back to me. Then he came back. I thought that was the happiest day of my life.

He had been back in the states for a few months and he came home to visit me as much as he could. I really remember one specific time he came to see me. I had no idea what was about to happen to me. He popped the question, "Will you marry me?" At that moment I knew I was going to be happy for the rest of my life. The wedding day was almost here, and I was rushing around trying to get everything done. Then a Surprise hit me I was pregnant. I was so scared. We got married and I moved to be with him. Then I got the news again. They were going back to Iraq. So I had my daughter 5 weeks early and he left three days after she was born, and I thought myself, "What am I supposed to do now?! I have this baby and I have no clue what to do!"

I think that was the longest 15 months of my life. That night my husband had come home to us once again and I thank God so much for that. He has only been home three months and I got pregnant again. A few months later, we moved to Colorado. He started working and once again I heard those words. That's right! Back to Iraq. Now I have to deal with a new born baby and my 2-year-old all by myself, except now I am in a town where I do not know anyone. I was praying and hoping that this would be his last time over there.

I got a call one day and they said, "Your husband got shot in the head." Right there I thought he was dead, however he was fine. The bullet did not penetrate, but it made him forget everything. He cannot remember what I ask him to do or what I even say to him most of the time. My life as an army wife has been so hard. In fact, I have had people telling me that he was stupid for joining and that I needed to leave him because he was not coming back. I deal with things like this almost on a daily basis. I refuse to let it bother me. I know what I live for and that is supporting my husband and kids in whatever they decide to do.

Being an army wife is one of the hardest jobs a women can have. It is a 24-7 job of wondering and worrying about how your life long partner is doing or even if he will come home to you. What I have explained in all of this is not even half of what has happened. Now that's my life as and Army wife.

"THE DINNER"

When I lived in my parent's house, every night I heard, "Hey everybody dinner is ready!" and everybody ran to the table because my mom's cooking was delicious.
But now I am convinced that those days don't happen anymore. Now everyone focuses on their own activities.
Nowadays things have changed and everyone has a lot of things to do and it's impossible to be with family during these times.
Now I know the happiness that my mom used to feel when we all used to eat together.
Us as parents we should try to keep the family together and try not to lose our values.

Physical Tragedy

Last year, I had a digestion problem just after I started school. After a couple of months, I went to see my doctor. He gave me some medication and said to come back if the medication didn't work. After a couple weeks, I went to see the doctor again. I took x-rays and other tests in the morning. Around noon, he told me I can't go back home because I needed surgery. Around four o'clock in the after noon, they sent me to Memorial Hospital. That was just the start of my physical tragedy. The doctors couldn't find what was wrong with me. I went to the emergency room many time after the first surgery and they found small problems each time. In December, on my second surgery, they took out my gallbladder. Even when they took out my gallbladder, it seemed like they didn't know what caused my digestion problem. After a couple of days when I came back home from the hospital, I called 911, and went to Memorial Hospital again. They never explained exactly what was wrong with me. I heard one doctor talk with someone about my problem on the way to my room from the restroom. My right side had a water packet and was leaking the water. The next day, they made me sleep and put in a microscope down my throat and cleaned out my organs. Eventually, they found my big problem while cleaning my organs. I had pancreatitis. From October 22, 07 to January 5th, 08, I had two open stomach surgeries and four times I went to Memorial Hospital. I am healing every day, and watch every diet for my digestion.

Often times my mind....

never shuts down as I lay In my bed. In my bedroom struggling to fall asleep at night, almost as quickly as I laid down, I'm getting back up again because of restlessness, and a constant battle of the mind not knowing when to shut down. At the same time, I'm getting back up again. My mind is in a constant battle of knowing when to shut off. In the meantime, my mind is worrying about all my children's issues, and suddenly it switches from the children to my husband and what's going on with him. Soon after that it's on all the responsibilities that I have going on in my own life. During all these thoughts and feelings going on in my mind, finally I'm at a point to where I'm in tears, and praying to God that he will give me peace of mind, right away so that I can fall asleep. Hours go by, and I am finally able to rest and the mind shuts down. Then at last I can fall asleep peacefully.

My Honeymoon

Cha!Ching! Cha! Ching! That was the first sound my wife and I heard as we walked through the doors of the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas. As we both made our way to the front desk, I kept getting the urge to want to spend money. Just then my wife reminded me, "Be patient we have all week to spend money."

Between the time of us checking in and walking to the elevators to go to our room,we were already dropping money into slot machines. Cha Ching! Cha Ching! were the wonderful sounds of me wining $85 dollars. I then cashed out so my wife and I could get our bags in our room and get ready for an exciting week. After we were done getting ready, We were ready to party.

There was a lot of winning and losing between the two of us. As the night was coming to an end, we reminded ourselves we had a busy day ahead of us in Las Vegas. After walking a mile in the 113 degree weather, we decided to ride the free shuttle to the rest of our destinations. For the next few days we did a lot of Gambling, Shopping, and more gambling.

Before we knew it it was time to head back home to our three wonderful boys which we missed very much. I will never forget my exciting experience in Las Vegas. Now every time I here Cha Ching! Cha Ching! it takes me back to my honeymoon in the city that never sleeps.

!!HA-HA-HA!! Everybody laughing. I can't forget that day because it was the most terrible day in my life when I was a child. I was in the middle school in Mexico. I was in 4th grade. That day we were in recess and everybody was playing jump rope. When my turn came and I was ready to go and jump. I fell down on to the floor. In that moment I wanted to die or disappear. This is the mos terrible moment that I will never forget. Now when I remember that time I laugh too. Now I can do it, but not in that moment.

My new job promotion !

To kitchen supervisor. It just amazingly happened a few weeks ago. Our kitchen manager unexpectedly resigned her position. Another co-worker and I were asked to share the job responsibilities of the kitchen. We both graciously accepted the dollar raise, and added duties. I personally, just hope and pray that I can do a supreme job, so that my director can feel comfortable In the fact that she made an outstanding decision. In choosing us for the job, with this being such a tremendous change so suddenly. There are a lot of things added to my duties. But courageously I will stand, and go on to complete my duties with great delight.

My Childhood

There are some memories that I have about my childhood. First, I grew up in the U.S.A until I was six years old. Then my mom took me to Mexico and here I grew up the rest of my childhood. During my childhood, I used to play with my neighbors and cousins. Also, my childhood was a very happy time because I didn't worry about problems, money, and things like that, so I just needed to worry about play. In this time I used to have a favorite toy. It was my teddy bear. I still have this teddy bear because it was a gift from my grandma who was my special babysitter.


I have one earliest memory from my childhood. It is when I was 3 almost 4 years. It is about when I used to drink my little sister's baby bottle. I remenber that my mom always gave a baby bottle to my sister and one to me, but she always gave me my baby bottle first. Then when my mom finished and gave the baby bottle to my sister, I already finished mine. Also, I always waited until my mom left my sister alone, so I could take hers. Then I went behind the sofa and drank it there. Next, my mom started asking, "Where is Maria's baby bottle?", and I was hiding. Finally, my mom found the baby bottle behind the sofa, and she just told me, "Ay Noemi."


I feel very happy about my childhood. I have good and bad memories about my childhood. For example, I didn't have my dad with me during it. Also, I learned how ride my bike. I used to ride my bike with boys, but one day I fell and hurt myself. Furthermore, I still enjoy playing video games. I started doing this when I was seven. Finally, when I was a child, I enjoyed playing with Barbies, but I don't play with Barbies anymore because now I think Barbies are boring. These are some memories that are important in my life.

My Dream

Since I was little I wanted to go to Disney World as well my daughter wishes to go now. Unfortunately my parents never could afford that trip. I never got mad at them or anything like that, but always I had the faith that I would visit the place and will be with my daughter which will make the experience the best ever.

One of the main reasons that I would like to visit that magical place is because I going to see for first time in my life real dolphins and I really love those animals. I think they are the most beautiful creatures of the world because they love people, they are friendly, kind and the best about them is that they may help you if you need them overseas.

Beside, I think that just the fact to be in Disney World is an amazing, outstanding and magical experience for anybody especially if it is the first time you got there.

"YOU WOULD RETURN AT YOUR CHILDHOOD"

MY STORY

I am Danira and this is my story. I am from Chihuahua, Mexico. My story is almost the same like the others. We came here for better life. I have three kids-two girls and one boy. I think they are the most important and special people in my life. They make me be strong for them.

I miss my family, my country, our traditions, my mom's food. I miss going to the river in the afternoon to catch fish. I also miss my grandmother's stories. I miss going with my sisters to pickup fresh chamomile tea and flowers in the mountains at morning time. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat, but we were together.

Sometimes it hurts to be here by myself. I mean without my sisters, my mom and my grandmother. But here I have my husband and my kids, They are my other part of my family and I think that is the best gift in my life, Sometimes it hurts when you can't have all of your family together. I know in here, in this country, my kids can have a better life . They can choose what they want to do in the future. Of course if you teach them how they have to work hard for that. I come to the school to learn new things for me and for them.

My Quinceanera

I can remember one of the most special days in my life "my quinceanera." I remember that just was four months before to my quinceanera, and my mom and me didn't have anything ready. Also, my mom thought she was more nervous than me, but I was more worried than her because I had to practice every night my waltz. One month previous to my quinceanera, my mom looked at one of my practices, and she disagreed with my waltz, so my friends and I needed to change all my waltz and create a new one.

When we went to buy my quinceanera dress, I was very sad because I couldn't find a perfect dress for that day. We saw a lot of dresses; pinks, sky blues, greens, yellows, etc., but I didn't want a colored dress. I wanted a white drees, because my quinceanera was going to be just two days before Christmas. Finally, I found a perfect dress. It was white with "catalinas" painted on it. These flowers are used for Christmas.

Two weeks before my quinceanera my mom had everything ready; the food, music, salon, and the church. We just needed to wait for the big day. December 22, 2004, this was the great and long-awaited day. I woke up and took a shower. Then the stylist came and started my makeup and combed my hair. At 12:00 noon I was ready, but now I needed run to the church because I was a little late.

After the mass, was the reception. There were all my family, friends, and all the people that I know. We ate "birria." At 7:00 it was time to show my waltz. Everybody liked it and applauded a lot. After that, one of my grandmoms gave me a surprise. It was a big teddy bear with a little box with a ring and a necklace on it. Finally, it was the "baile," and every person was dancing and had a lot a fun the rest of the night. In short words, this day was an amazing day in my life because here were all my family and friends.

MY FAVORITE PLACE

My favorite place is when my family,and my brother's-in-law family go together to a house he has in Rush. This place is an hour from the City. We also take food with us and we all help to prepare the food, and then we eat together.

We usually go on Saturday and come back on Sunday. I'm the only one that has to get back earlier because I have to work on Sunday. When we get to the house, there's always things to do. Last time I was there the water in the house was very smelly, so on Sunday morning that I woke up, and drank my coffe, I went outside to pull out the filter from the water inlet. I got surprised when I saw the filter it was awful and smelled bad.

We have so much fun especially the kids. We the adults have to do some work, and then have some fun using some guns, and shoot at some targets.We also try to kill some rabbits. Well like I said it is fun spending time out there in the open country.

favorite place

I never really had a favorite place to go or to be, but what I always admire is to bike. That's what I imagine my life to be. When I'm out and about, I hit up the jumps or just the streets. It makes me feel like I'm god and tremendous inside. It doesn't matter if it's rainy or sunny, dry or wet. My motto has always been:"Ride or Die". If I could I would ride all day everyday. I encourage everyone to buy a bike and go biking. It's alot of fun and excitement.

My Favorite Book

I want to talk about my book. In this time I choice this book because when I saw the title,it touched my heart. The book title is The Rescue.

Sometime when I can see some fire man I felt very glad for them, because all the time they put their own life in dangerous situation to save lives. So I start to read this book.

Everyday I tried to be part of the story because I felt all the moments in the story. I haven't finish yet, but for now I read about a woman who will be part of the fire man's life.

This fire man, who's name is Taylor, his life is very busy. He doesn't have time to make his own life, family and love. But one day he found a woman who needed some help and in this moment they don't know, but they will be together in the life.

It is like a future you don't know about what happened the next year, maybe the hour. I learn from this book a lots of things. One of this is be grateful for your own family. Never leave your home after you say I'm sorry or I love you. Another things was always try to help somebody.

The woman life was like a routine. She has a son with a health problem and her life is hard. She lives alone with her son and doesn't have help of nobody. She doesn't imagine as her life will be change for ever. In an accident she lost her son and in this moment she arrived to the fire man's life. I hope can read all the book so I can talk about this interesting story.

My Favorite River

When I was a child my favorite place was a little river at the east of my town. I remember tall trees, green grass and the little and clean river. Also, I always went just to see the fish. When I tried to fish I never had good luck. Another thing that I enjoyed was when I felt the wind in my face. This made me feel free. I loved to go to the river because I always went with all my family, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandfathers. We always ate "carne azada," and also we tried to go on sunny days. We always had a lot of fun together. In short, I loved this place because it's a pretty and peaceful place.

About Dreams

Everyone has dreams to be something when they grow up. Nurse, doctor, dentist and what ever it is. Some times its hard to reach your dreams. I understand things get in the way. I say if you dream it make it come true- reach and don't stop reaching. I was told that many times and there was always something in the way. My kids, my exhusband something.Don't get me wrong my kids are the best thing that has happened to me. Well I'm not dead yet and I'm still reaching and so should you NEVER STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE ELECTION

I really would like to vote this coming election, but unfortunately I can't in this moment.
For me will be great to see Barack Obama as a President of the United States of America, he would be the first African-American president in the history of this nation, I love the way he thinks, and I hope if he wins the election he could accomplish all his campaign promises.
Beside that I think that Obama could be assassinated, because everybody knows that a lot a people dislike the idea the future president of this nation could be "BLACK" especially the racist people. So it would be very sad, but the truth is that the "RACISM" is endless.

DRIVING WITHOUT SEATBELT

A few days ago while I was driving on Academy Blvd. I got pulled over by a trooper. I didn't have the seatbeat on me. I thought about putting it on, but then I said to my self what if the officer had seen me without the seatbealt, so I didn't put it on.

When the officer approached me, and asked me for my documents and told me she was pulling me over because the front license plate wasn't on. I told her I had it inside the car, and that I had recently bought the car. She went back to her car. She took a few minutes to come back.

It seemed to me like a very long time because it was getting late to go to work. When she came back, she told me I was having a break with the license plate, and that she was just going to give me a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.

When she gave me the ticket to sign, and I saw how much the ticket was. The ticket was $72.00! So now every time I need to drive somewhere I remember about it, and put on my seatbelt, and ask everyone else that is in the car to put on their seatbelts.

Every body out there don't get caught without a seatbelt on.

My Summer

Many times want to go on vacation and I decide is time to forget about everything and have a wonderful moment. Pretty much I focus in work come back home, sleep and not enjoy that much my time.

I had to go somewhere, somewhere that I haven't been in a long time. The beach a wonderful place, it has been six years since I have swum in the big blue.

My target was Myrtle Beach in North Carolina. I would love to go with my mom and family, but they are in Lima. So I went with the family of the love of my life. They pretty much adopt me as part of there family, "my new family", and I'm so proud to be part of them even though it could get me in trouble just because my new last name. Just kidding mom I love you.

I am not going to forget the same moment that I stepped on the sand;
I close my eyes and remembered old times when I was a kid.
When I was a kid I went with my parents several times in the summer of course with my parents and never forget mama's favorite food."Tallarines rojos y papa a la huancahina".

She knows is the best food to bring to the beach and my favorite food too. Yes, she loves me! I remember how my mom was worried about me being too far from her, always calling me:" Jenita don't go to far". Of course I never listened.

Back to the present I opened my eyes and one tear was falling from them. I started screaming: " I miss it, I miss it, I can't believe I waited six years!" It was hard to find the right time to go. My friends like to fly and before I didn't have a correct ID to do it. It was very frustrating to see my friends going with out me.

I enjoyed so much my vacation, I ran on the beach, body surfed, surfboarded, some diving and fishing with the family.

In the beginning I was kind of afraid to go in, but every time I went deeper and deeper and I start to remember how fun and how brave I was when I was a kid. So I jumped in , my eyes right away started burning, God! I don't remember that!
Well, I didn't care about few seconds. I started swimming like a fish in the water.
I'm not a good swimmer, but I love the blue. I wore a wet suit because I knew I would go to the water a lot and I didn't want to lose any of my swim suit, like it happened before, that I remember! Embarrassed moment eight years ago.

Diving and swimming I knew about the jelly fish, oops! Some how I didn't care I just wanted to have fun.

That was my best vacation in a long time thanks to my family. No matter what happens, it will always be in my heart.

The big blue.

My Weekend

I'm going to free write, and what I'm going to write about is how well my weekend went. Let's start off by saying it sucked. I didn't do anything at all. All my friends were doing jack squat and my girlfriend was out of town. I thought this weekend would be bangin' because my step mom was going to be gone, but nope it was so boring. The only good thing that happened this weekend happened on Friday when i got a new phone. The bad part of it was I didn't get it switched over untill Monday, so thats my boring ass weekend....

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