Looks like I'm going

To Houston that is. I finally made the reservation. OMG I can't believe I did it! Not only am I scared to fly, but... I will be flying ALONE!! Yikes!!
I will be staying in Texas for about a week. I am hoping we have lots of fun, whatever we do :)

I will be visting a few friends... Jen and Jeannie and we are hoping that Edna and Marcia and maybe another friend can join us! I have met Jen in person already, but I haven't met the others so that makes me kinda of nervous also. I will just be nervous for awhile though, then the real me will come out, LOL. I hope they can handle me and not through me out before its time for me to comeback, hehehehe. I know Jen will help me out :) Just don't give me cerveza and I will be ok. lol

I have to make a list of what I need to take.... meds, bipap, enough chones, just in case I lmao and I end up with a lil accident :) LOL, jk!

Sooooo this is my post for the today. I know not very long, but hey you are all lucky I posted. I've been thinking to much about other things, and blogging just wasnt in my thinking, and anyway I get headaches when I think :)

Well I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Cathy

Opps.... I did it again

A few weeks ago I was complaining about pain in my chest area where my hickman is in.

I posted on board. After reading and getting some pretty good advice. I emailed my PH Dr. and I explained to him what I had been doing days, prior to getting this pain. H emailed me back and said that it sounded like I had pulled a muscle. To give it a few days and if it didnt go away or got worse to let him know. Well the pain went away.
It came back yesterday, and I think I know why. Everytime when I over do it with my right arm ( thats the side where my hickman is) I get the same pain, especially after doing something really straingous(sp?). So I was thinking back what I did the last couple of days. I clobbered the bunny piñata :( I mean I was really going at it with that bat! Swinging and swinging at the piñata, until I destroyed it :(
So now I know that I can not over do it with my right arm. Sooooo..... what else is new? Why does PH have to be so complicated?

Sorry for the whine.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Cathy

Easter at Martha's House

Carlos and I spent our Easter Sunday at my sister Martha's house. My niece and her family, my nephew and his family and one of my brothers was there also. We had baked ham with all the works. It was a nice day, sunny not hot, so that made it even nicier to be outside. My great nieces and nephews were all having a great time! After we ate, the eggs were hidden in the yard. Here is a pic of one of my nephews finding a egg in one of the plants. I was right there by it so I was able to take a pic.. I did crop him out. I don't want to post pics of them on here since they are not my kids or grandkinds

My sister Martha brought out a piñata that she made! Yes, she made it. She is very talented! It is sooo cute! It was made from carboard boxes and tissue paper, very sturdy! Take a look at it, and please do, notice the BIG bunny ears. Poor bunny it's gonna get totaled in a few minutes And guess who got to do that? It was sooooo fun. Can you tell? Hummm I wonder who I was thinking about? Oh... BTW the all the kids got there turn also before me, of course:). Then after I destroyed bunny I got a GREAT idea!! I wanted a pic of me and guess with what?? The bunny ears!!
Everyone got a pic taken with the bunny ears, I only posted a few picsMy son Carlos

My sister Martha and my brother Francisco

Here's a pic of my brother Francisco, my sister Martha and Me :)
Last pic is of the delicious cupcakes that my sister made, Yummmmmmyyyyy
All in all we had a GREAT time.. I didn't get to see any of my grandkids, and I was dissapointed but I did enjoy myself and my sister's house... we all did! And I hope you all did also :)

Thanks for reading


Cathy

Breakfast anyone?

I've been kinda lazy when it comes to my blog now. Sometimes I don't know what to write about. So I just wait and wait and wait, LOL Hoping something will pop into my BIG head!

This morning I got up at around 6:30 am, haven't been able to sleep these past few days. Anyway I took a shower and got myself ready and headed for the mraket. I needed a few things and figured, I might as well go. I made a list of the things that I needed. Small list as I can only carry so much with me, being in my wheelie. On my way over there, all of a sudden I started thinking about chilaquiles " Chee-lah-KEE-less". So I decided that's what I would have for breakfast. All I needed for the chilaquiles were the tortillas. I bought those and the few other things that I had already planned to buy. I came home and made my delicious chilaquiles.. YUMyyyyy. Chilaquiles are basically, corn stale tortilla pieces that are fried, cooked in salsa (hot or mild), and sprinkled with cotija cheese. It is basically a breakfast dish, they can be garnished with chopped cilantro and onion. And sometimes served with eggs and refried beans. I like to eat mine with a piece of bread. The salsa for the chilaquiles is usually homemade, but I cheated today and I used a can of el pato sauce and a can of tomato sauce. :) They still come out good!

Anyway this is what chilaquiles look like Enjoy!!

BTW....I sure do hope that everyone has a very nice Happy Easter:)

Cathy

Pool Is done!

This post is especially for Jeannie Tx :) After just a few months, the pool is finally completed. I have never sweated soooo much with a project like I did with this one! You know getting the right pieces together making it possible. All the hard worked involved. But.... I just couldn't let my phriend down :) Soooo, it was worth it.

Below are pics from the begining to the end!





Waaaaaaalaaaaaa The POOL!!
Oh Jeannie.... I hope you enjoy the pics!!


Cathy~

BTW...... JeannieTx.... please make sure you do look at the day that this was posted on.....LOL

Remebering childhood Easters

I was remebering one of my childhood Easter Sunday, last night. I remember my mom would make our Easter dresses.... Martha's, Peregrina's and mine. And they were the same color and the same design all the time. I don't remember how long it would take her to make them, but we always had our dresses in time. As a matter of fact she made our dresses all the time.

On Easter Sunday we would go to Mass then come home and either prepare to go to a park or have Easter at home. Our home had a big front yard, so we had plenty of room for our Easter egg hunt. I was thinking back and remembering how much fun we had. Even though we were dirt poor, my mom with older sisters help always made the best of it.
I have somewhere (I don't know where right now. but somewhere) LOL. A pic of when I was like maybe 3 yrs old. And it was taken in our front yard at Easter time. I will look for it :)

Anyway in the meantime here is a picture of my mom and dad. My dad didn't like taking pictures that's why he is not looking straight at the camera. My older sisters tell me that it was very hard to convience dad to actually sit in front of the camera and agree to take the pic. He was a very strict and serious person, so no smile from him. I think my mom was so beautiful. I still miss her, I miss them both.




This is a picture of all my brothers and sisters, all my sisters except one is here in pic. My younger sister is the one right next to my mom and I am in front of my dad. My sister Peregrina and I are wearing our Easter dresses, that mom made for us one year. I have other pics of when we were younger, but they are put away somehwere. These two that I posted are ones that I keep in frames on top of our fireplace. These two pictures were taken sometime after Easter. I think I was about 6 or 7 yrs old.



I hope you all have a good day and thanks for reading.

Cathy

My water faucets

I am in my wheelie all day. When it's nice outside I like to get out and try to garden a little. Even though its very hard to be in a wheelchair, I do try.
When my husband started fixing up the front yard for me, I asked him if he could put the water faucet a bit higher from me. It was kinda hard to get to it, where it was at. So he did...... not only did he do one for me but he did four in the front yard to make it easier for me. I told a phriend Jeannie that I would be posting some pics of the faucets. One is partly decorated and 3 still need to be decorated.

This is how the un-decorated one looks like. What he did is make the water tubing high to where I could reach the faucet. Then he put a PVC pipe to go down all the way to the ground, which left the water faucet in the middle of the PVC. Then he put cement to hold it up and make it nice and sturdy.
Here is another un-decorated one.
Now this is the partial decorated one. I bought these glass pieces at Micheals and my older son Jose, put them on for me. We still need to put the grout on and I have to figure out how I will do the top part.

This is the same one as above, as you can see the top part is not decorated yet. And I would also like to cover up the part of the pipe that is showing on top.

The glass that I bought at Micheals is very expensive. I am still trying to see how I can do the others. I do have some of those round glass stones that look like marbles, they are in different colors. They are usually used for plants or for stepping stones. I might use some of them for the other faucets. Not sure yet!

Well Jeannie, I know these are not pics of the pool... but I thought maybe I could distract your mind with something else :), LOL

Thanks for reading hope you are all having a wonderful day

Cathy