Happy Spring!

Tomorrow is the first day of Spring! The flowers are starting to bloom, there's a little more green out there each day...don't ya just love it?!

Natalia is already starting to talk about Christmas--but more because she likes the pretty lights and decorations. Really, her heart is aching for Easter...anything to do with chocolate, and she's there! Of course, Nico has gotten a taste of the chocolate--I won't lie--he likes it too.

So does Smokey--I'm sure he didn't learn the first time when he got into the box of Valentine's Day chocolates that Jorge had gotten me. By the time I got home from work, the guy was bouncing off the walls. We had to rush him to the hospital where he got his stomach pumped, poked all over with needles, and stayed his first night away from home. I don't think I slept at all that night. No -- I'm sure he didn't learn. Some of us never do...

Life at the Mesones home has been hectic, stressful, and then some. But we're making some head-way, and we've seen the light at the end of the tunnel. We have our health, we have our family and friends, and we've got our jobs. To ask for more would be selfish (though we demand more every day!!).

I do want to add a special note to all the people in my life who have managed to put up with my stubborn self. Without you, I truly would go insane! I may be pig-headed, but I still manage to make it through each day, and I owe it all to you. Thanks for being there for me through the thick and thin. Know that you are loved and always have a shoulder to cry on, or a wall to scream at :)

I don't have any real news to share, just thought I'd check in before I got in the habit of NOT checking in. No pictures this time. We're still without a good camera, so pictures are few and far between. We can use the video camera, but I'm so disappointed with the results that I just don't take many pictures with it. (The photo I've included is of a rose that was taken when Natalia and I went to a rose garden/park back in 2005 (when she was not quite 2 yrs. old.)


Wishing you all a happy beginning to the Spring season,

Love,
Mandy