I don't know what fits your description of comfort food. For us, it's pretty much Kraft macaroni & cheese. Now, I'm NOT saying this is our favorite food (unless you ask Katie), and the longer we live in Europe the less we even like it at all (what IS that orange powder anyway??). But whenever we are super tired or sad or just home from a trip or just don't know what else to cook, we always turn to Kraft mac & cheese.
Today my family left after 11 wonderful days here with us in Spain. This spring has been a series of visits from our family so that now each member of our family has been here to visit us within the last 4 months. (though we missed you, Uncle Bryan!) It still really blows my mind that they were all willing to come and that we were able to show each of them our world. What great memories we have!
But now they're all gone, with no more visits to look forward to. So we are eating mac & cheese today. And wishing Spain were just a wee bit closer to Texas.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Bye Bye Baby
It has been awhile since I've posted - remember how I am when I don't have any deadlines?? (which for my life here in Spain means visitors or a trip :-) ) Well, my family arrives on Saturday, so here I am with an update :-)
If you saw my Easter post, you might have guessed that Katie's tooth has indeed fallen out by now :-) A mere 2 weeks after she 1st noticed it was loose, it was ready to come out! Monday morning 4 May, it was REALLY wiggly and sideways and I was afraid that it would fall out at school! How sad would that be?? They weren't there when it came in, so why should they get to be the ones who get to see it fall out? :-) So I rushed a bit to go pick Katie up, immediately checking for sure that her tooth was still hanging on in her mouth. Fortunately it was! So I decided that we needed to get this tooth out while she was safely at home :-) Sadly Jason was in Las Vegas, so it fell to Mom to do the honors - that tooth was not waiting for him to get back home!
Now, the trouble is, whenever I would look at her tooth sideways and feel it cracking free from its roots, my stomach would turn a little bit. I am NOT a fan of blood or extracting things like this! But what could I do? There was no one but me :-) So I just wiggled it back and forth until it snapped right out - it just needed 1 good push!
Katie was SO excited and happy to put her tooth under her pillow to wait for the tooth fairy. They don't have the tooth fairy in Spain, instead they have something called "Ratoncito Perez" who leaves money or a small gift for a lost tooth. But I am sure that at OUR house in Spain, we were visited by a fairy and NOT a little rat!!! :-) The tooth fairy did leave Euros, with a little bonus for the 1st tooth. Oh happy day!
The really sad postscript to this story is that now, 1 short month later, Katie has THREE more teeth that are loose. The other tooth in the middle on the bottom and the 2 middle ones on the top. So my baby is truly growing up and will soon have more holes than teeth visible (and then HUGE teeth instead of the little cute ones!)
If you saw my Easter post, you might have guessed that Katie's tooth has indeed fallen out by now :-) A mere 2 weeks after she 1st noticed it was loose, it was ready to come out! Monday morning 4 May, it was REALLY wiggly and sideways and I was afraid that it would fall out at school! How sad would that be?? They weren't there when it came in, so why should they get to be the ones who get to see it fall out? :-) So I rushed a bit to go pick Katie up, immediately checking for sure that her tooth was still hanging on in her mouth. Fortunately it was! So I decided that we needed to get this tooth out while she was safely at home :-) Sadly Jason was in Las Vegas, so it fell to Mom to do the honors - that tooth was not waiting for him to get back home!
Now, the trouble is, whenever I would look at her tooth sideways and feel it cracking free from its roots, my stomach would turn a little bit. I am NOT a fan of blood or extracting things like this! But what could I do? There was no one but me :-) So I just wiggled it back and forth until it snapped right out - it just needed 1 good push!
Katie was SO excited and happy to put her tooth under her pillow to wait for the tooth fairy. They don't have the tooth fairy in Spain, instead they have something called "Ratoncito Perez" who leaves money or a small gift for a lost tooth. But I am sure that at OUR house in Spain, we were visited by a fairy and NOT a little rat!!! :-) The tooth fairy did leave Euros, with a little bonus for the 1st tooth. Oh happy day!
The really sad postscript to this story is that now, 1 short month later, Katie has THREE more teeth that are loose. The other tooth in the middle on the bottom and the 2 middle ones on the top. So my baby is truly growing up and will soon have more holes than teeth visible (and then HUGE teeth instead of the little cute ones!)
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