A mama's life

It’s often said when life gives you lemons 🍋 make lemonade, well let me tell ya I’ve got some of the best sweetest lemonade you’ve ever had. This lemonade stand is always open for business! Life is full of surprises and you never know what tomorrow might bring. James is one of my favorite books in the Bible and it reminds us that we will go through trials in our lives and that not every day will bring sunshine or rainbows, we must count it all joy. At 17 years old and only married for a year I started having a lot of painful women issues, which was also the cause of my infertility being young and on my own I just went along with what Doctors suggested. Birth control for regulating my monthly cycles and iron supplements for anemia caused  by irregularities. On my part I trusted God and left it in His hands and did a lot of prayer.  I always say Florida was my dessert and my greatest blessing. I dislike the heat with everything in me and it was the last place I wanted to move to, it was

It seams like these last days have been a blur and at the same time full of chaos.So much information coming in and things changing so rapidly. It’s easy to forget that this too shall pass. Let us not forget that no matter how crazy or scary things get GOD is in control.And that His peace makes the fear disappear. Let us surround ourselves with what brings us peace, calmness and the reassurance that better days are at hands reach. Speak the word of God in your home,declare his promises over you household. Speaking positively will give hope to those around you, your children will feel safe and not stressed or anxious.Play worship music that speaks of the greatest of God, His faithfulness,His wonders, His miracles,and how He’s the all powerful and Invincible.He is your healer,your Protector & your Provider. Remember that we are one body,we are better together! We might no be physically together but we are in spirit. We live in a time when everything is accessible to us at the tou

25 days ago I started jogging/walking to check the mail,in the evenings. Which is 1/4 of a mile from the house. I jog/walk all the way down and another 1/4 mile to a turn around circle at the end of our street,and walk back home on an incline driveway. It’s my“me time”at the of the day, it challenges me to finish what I started. Every evening I get to run along side a momma deer and her baby. I’ve set 6 weight goals,reach my 1st and one lbs away from my 2nd goal. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,because I love to be in the comfort of my home,love my food and my AC. 7 years ago I had a VSG (vertical sleeve gastronomy ) done a TOOL to help with weight loss,not the solution but a tool.After a year I reached my goal weight ,and got comfortable and started back on old non healthy habits,this caused half of the weight to come back on.The struggle is real weight loss surgery is not the easy way out ,specially when you have complications after surgery.It’s just a jump start to ge

Some of the few memories I have of happy days are of my uncles coming over and watching them play cards or dominoes with my parents.They would give us kids riddles to solve & keep us busy, when we couldn't figure them out it was our homework for the next day. We would go to bed and lay there trying to figure out the answer till we would fall asleep, the next day we were anxious to get up to figure out the answer....Maybe thats why I love brain busters and things that challenge me. Growing up we never had enough money to take family vacations. My mother always would color with us make drawings for us or play LOTERIA (Mexican Bingo) with us and use beans to mark the pictures. LOL Milton and I want those kind of memories for our kids, we want them to one day do the same with their family. We look forward to the day they come home with their spouses and kids and we remember the good old times and make new memories for the generation to come. Every time we go to Goodwill or The

4 years ago Huela Marta lost her battle to cancer only 6 months after being diagnosed.I can still remember the day we took her into the Urgent care for a bad toothache she had and being told she had a walking pneumonia,I remember the day she was at the hospital because she wasn't getting better and the oncologist coming in and so very sweetly and caring delivered the big C news.Us having to translate to her what it meant and her nodding her head saying "OK,OK" we could tell in her face she thought she was going to do treatment and be ok.But,we knew that stage 4 at her age of 82 was not looking good. I remember her making the best of those months before she got really sick.I spent the last week with her and help take car of her,she fought to the very end we ate together talked laugh, cried and reminisced on all the good times we had together.  She loved her family seeing us happy made her happy.Time hasn't made her absence any easier when I see my little ones running a

Nothing better than to be awaken from the best deep sleep with the sound off ALL the smoke detectors going in the house. This morning was the same as every morning the older twins (almost 10) woke up about 6:30am and made their breakfast.When all of the sudden I get awaken by the sound of the smoke detector then the next and all of the sudden the house was extremely loud.I constantly tell people somewhere along the journey of being a mother of 6 I have lost my panic button,I slightly turned over to Milton and said "They burnt the toast" He goes downstairs to find the kitchen filled with smoke and a very scared panic and frozen Abraham in front of the NEW TOASTER oven with the toast still in a flame. So of course he access the situation and takes the toaster outside.He goes back upstair lays back down and who can go back sleep after a great ordeal like the one we just had ? Too much adrenaline pumping too early.We start talking about our agendas for the day and then woke u