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I have no aptitude for religion. This isn't a case of faith or belief, or whether I'm for it or not. This is simply a case of it's not one of the things that my brain could process easily, along with biology, philosophy, political science, law, and subject matters that deal with pure numbers. All of a sudden I had horrible flashbacks of STS, Nat Sci I, Soc Sci I, Philo I, where the teacher lectured, I stared back and tried and tried to grasp, but just couldn't. Let me backtrack. When Eduardo and his family arrived here a couple of months ago, they decided that this was the time that they were all going to be actively involved in church again. I don't really know much about their religion so when they said that missionaries were going to come visit us at home I thought that this was just some hospitable thing that they did because we all just moved here. The first couple of visits were just a hi hello kind of thing. During this whole time it just baffled me why they ...

Happy 30th birthday to Eduardo and happy third year anniversary to me since I became a Canadian landed immigrant. HA! Three years ago Eduardo probably thought my landing was the best birthday present ever, but that opinion probably differs now after he has lived with me for this long! It was a little challenging trying to find a way to celebrate since we just moved to Victoria and don't really know anyone here. It's hard to just travel anywhere because we have two babies, plus we live on an island and getting off the island with a car and two babies is just a financial and logistical nightmare so going to Vancouver was definitely out of the question. We decided that we'll just do a roadtrip to Nanaimo which is only a couple of hours away from Victoria and apparently the home of the biggest mall in Vancouver Island. It was a good day trip, just something new to look at for a change. If only it wasn't raining like crazy then we could've explored downtown Nanaimo, but ...

Bell is exactly two months today! I celebrated by making my favorite carbonara pasta and carrot cake. I can't believe two months have passed and I only have happy Isabella moments to remember them by. Good job, I'm really getting better at this mom thing. Can you believe it, not once during these months did I even think that it would be more productive and better for my mental health if I just went back to work? Amazing! So anyway, here are some updates on Bell. 1. Her doctor's check up isn't until tomorrow so I can't give you the whole news on how much she weighs, how long she's gotten, etc, but she's starting to fit her 0-3 months clothes so that must means she's getting bigger. 2. She has started to smile. A LOT. She chuckles even. 3. She responds when you talk to her. In fact it's starting to feel more and more like a conversation. 4. She learned to focus a lot earlier than I remember with Raine. She now loves the mobile above her crib. 5. She ha...

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2008/11/fun-what-do-you.html I've been a big fan of the Happiness Project and have found the articles, interviews, and blog entries really enlightening, amusing, and even helpful sometimes. One of the more recent entries is finding what's fun for you. I have embarked on trying to find that out myself a few months ago, but I was too troubled that I came up with answers that are generic to myself. Meaning things that would seem most likely fun for me to do knowing me. Now I realize that when I don't allow myself to be distracted by the things the cause me misery, I am able to focus more on what I think are fun things to do. I also realized that some don't require that much thought and reflection after all and are actually right in front of my nose, I just don't notice it. Here are a few that I was able to come up with in a snap: Fun activity number one -- watching Friends! Eduardo and I have all ten seasons on dvd and...

I'm just airing out my frustration. I tried doing my holiday shopping on the Disney Store website. I didn't even buy anything expensive and the shipping charges cost half of everything I bought! And that doesn't even include the exchange rate yet plus whatever charges I'll get at customs. Sucks, sucks sucks! I can't really go out because I'm on house arrest for the next eighteen years taking care of my kids. Even if I could go out, we're a one-car family now, meaning I won't be able to use my car again - ever! Not without Eduardo anyway and then running errands will have to be ten times as complicated because we have to bring the kids with us. And even if none of those things were complicated, just where would I shop exactly? Coming from the land of no stores, congratulations, I have successfully backed myself into an island of even lesser stores! So much for my pre-holiday spirits. Hey I tried. To top everything off Eduardo's 30th birthday is coming...

I went to church today. Believe it. There's no good day to start than the day that we gained back an hour. But kidding aside, another reason was that it was All Souls Day. I realized that I'm starting to grow a really long list of friends and loved ones who have passed away and believe it or not, I had this really strong urge to pray for them. There's a bigger reason why I wanted to go, and well, read on. This is the first time I'm going to admit it out loud and in writing but I've actually been attending mass ever since I moved to Victoria. The whole practice kind of got halted in the flurry of things when everybody else arrived here and the whole giving birth thing, but technically I've been trying to see if I could fix my whole spiritual issues. I haven't gone in so long. I used to go, not as consistently as I would've wanted to, but I tried to go as often as I could. But then work got in the way and my weekends were usually shot, and the times that t...

Halloween... the one holiday during the year that I haven't learned to dislike yet so it's pretty safe to say that it's my favorite holiday. Hopefully nothing would ever happen that could potentially screw up this day for me because... I really like candy. This year I have two kids and actually got to go trick or treating with Eduardo. I was really excited about that because he missed out on last year because he had to work. I thought that since we're all together that it would be fun. For some reason something was off, like something was missing. Okay so maybe it was partly because we didn't get that much candy. Although I love, love, love Halloween because it's a happy event where children and adults get to wear costumes and it's a great family day and everything but I'm going to level with you, more than anything else I'm in it for the candy. No it wasn't just the candy, it was something else and I'm not sure what. It was like we came home...