Mishaps and Life

Sometimes it seems that life is a never-ending saga of stress and love. It´s been so tough down here. I can´t even begin to describe it, but I wouldn´t change the challenges I´ve had for the world. It has definitely made me a much stronger person!!! The first part of June the house I live in got broken into and my computer and camera were taken. They were the only things. Gotta love that. So unfortunately, my communication with the outside world has been cut dramatically. I make it to the internet maybe once a week. It´s really annoying. What sucks the most about all of it, however, is the fact that all my photos from 3 years were on that computer as well as all my new photos of here and my son. I also don´t have a camera now to record everything again. It breaks my heart everytime I think about it. But stressing about it won´t bring it back, so I´ve done my best to move on.

My English classes are going well. I love it!! I have picked up one private lesson and she is a very fascinating woman. Her name is Bellen and I teach her twice a week at her Spa. Yes, you read it correctly. She opened and runs her very own spa. It´s awesome. She has done so much in her life and it fascinating to hear her talk about everything.

Things with my husband are okay. Ya know, it´s so stressful here and every little thing tends to inflame our stressful situation. He had a bought with the ocean a couple of weeks ago. He got carried out in the tide and almost drowned. Thank heaven that a surfer noticed his distress and got him back into shore. It was very scary and I couldn´t do anything from the shore. I had a sleeping baby in my arms. I freaked out!! Wouldn´t you? To top that off, that weekend, he lost his job. It was SO AWESOME!! Honestly, it doesn´t get much better than getting robbed, almost losing your husband and then having our meager income made even more meager. I love it!!

However, there are a few things that have been great!! Every morning we see our neighborhood iguanas hanging out in the sun. It´s so cool to see those things just right there on the street. Last weekend it finally rained and as we were driving up the dirt road to get to the house, crabs were walking alongside the car. They were good sized. I´ve never seen anything like that before in my life! It was cool.

I finally went skinny dipping in my pool. It´s about time. I´ve been here almost 2 months and hadn´t been. There´s nothing like the freedom of nakedness. Ha! Ha!

My son is so cute. I know I may be prejudice, but he really is!! He is getting bigger everyday and it´s amazing to watch the development. He´s very determined to get his way and will stop at nothing to get it. It´s interesting how stubborn he is. We have a walker for him and our house has amazing marble floors and TONS of space for him to walk/run around on. He is everywhere and we had to put up gates around everything, ie the indoor pòol and the pooltable. If you say no, it automatically means YES. Imagine that!!

The mosquitos are a KILLER here. There is also a red ant that is in everyting and they bite. What a pain. And last night, a bat got into the house. Just a little one, but one nevertheless. We got him out this morning.

That´s a quick update on things here. I hope you´re all well. I would have posted pictures, but no camera. Hopefully one will appear soon. Who knows?!