Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Obsessions

I have noticed in the past few years, that Luca gets into new things and fully devotes his energies to learn and enjoy about this certain topic. This reminds me of somebody very close to me...my dad...and I am a bit like that too. He shows some interest in something, then it gets fueled by all those who love him and want to see him happy and then he becomes obsessive about it. It is great to be obsessive or passionate about something, as I think this is what makes one person particularly good at something. It makes you learn about it and enjoy it to the fullest. It is ok, as long and it doesn't disrupt your life, at least not for long, and eventually the normal life you were used to having comes back. For you and for those who surround you.

Me he dado cuenta de que en los ultimos anhos, Luca se obceca y dedica todo su energia en aprender cosas y disfrutar de varios temas. Me recuerda a alguien cercano a mi...a mi padre...y a mi un poco. Parece que se interesa en algo nuevo, luego se le aviva el interes con ayuda de todos aquellos que le quieren y quieren hacerle feliz y luego se vuelve obsesivo con ello. Esta bien ser obsesivo o apasionado sobre algo, creo que es lo que ayuda a cualquiera a ser bueno en algo. Te obliga a aprender de algo profundamente y a disfrutarlo al maximo. Esta bien, siempre y cuando no te afecte la vida, por lo menos no durante mucho tiempo, y al poco tu vida vuelva a la normalidad. Por tu bien y el bien de los que te rodean.

Three obsessions: batman, policemen, and fishing...what will be next?

Tres obsesiones: batman, policias, y pesca...cual sera la proxima?

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Friday, June 08, 2012

My Japanese boy

I lived in Japan for three years. I met my other half in Japan. We loved Japan. We loved Japanese culture, food, landscapes, people, the simplicity of things, nature, tradition and modernity. I still do. I still keep many friends old and new from Japan, I feel a connection with them and I think I will always do.
My son has never been to Japan, he knows about it as I talk frequently about things from Japan. I obviously have a lot of influence in diverse ways and he is exposed to a certain extent to it. I don't push it though. But it amazes me how much he LOVES LOVES LOVES everything Japanese. It just blows my mind. It seems like those years affected my genes and my husbands genes because for sure he inherited some Japanese genes.
He played Japanese drums last year, and up to date he sings the rhythms (my deaf child). He discovered edamame, miso soup and Japanese sticky rice early on and fell in love with all of them and the list has been growing through the years, seaweed (wakame and nori), furikake (mixture of seeds, sometimes fish and dried seaweed to condiment the rice), tofu, soy sauce, ramen and now he absolutely LOVES sushi. He could eat sushi everyday if that were an option. Our friends invited us to make sushi at their house and we learned the Japanese way. Luca is in love! and now we make it at home, even with our own additions.
He loves karate, he loves when we go to the Japanese festival, and his latest discovery (again, I don't even introduce all these things, he finds them, he asks about them, we do them, he loves them)...origami. He is creative like me, he is always making stuff around the house, and origami fits right with his personality. He discovered it the other day at the art store as I was shopping for water colors for a friend. I am so thrilled that bit of our life in Japan got impregnated inside his soul.

Vivi en Japon tres anhos. Encontre a mi media naranja en Japon. Nos encantaba Japon, Nos encanto la cultura, los paisajes, la gente, la simpleza de las cosas, la naturaleza, la tradicion y la modernidad. Aun me encanta, Sigo en contacto con muchos amigos viejos y nuevos de Japon, siento una conexion con ellos y creo que siempre lo hare. 
Mi hijo nunca estuvo en Japon, sabe mucho de este pais pues hablo a menudo de cosas de Japon. Obviamente yo tengo mucha influencia en varias cosas que hago y el esta expuesto en cierto modo a esta cultura. No soy exagerada. Pero alucino al ver como le ENCANTA ENCANTA ENCANTA todo lo relacionado con Japon. Me flipa. Parece que esos anhos afectaron mis genes y los de mi marido porque desde luego que el los heredo. 
Tocaba los tambores Japoneses el anho pasado, y hasta el dia de hoy sigue tarareando los ritmos (mi hijo sordo). Descubrio edamame, sopa de miso y el arroz pegajoso Japones hace mucho y enseguida se enamoro de ellos y la lista ha ido creciendo a traves de los anhos, algas (wakame y nori), furikake (mezcla de semillas, a veces pescado o verduras y alga seca), tofu, salsa de soja, fideos ramen y ahora le ENCANTA el sushi. Podria comer sushi todos los dias si esa fuera una opcion. Nuestros amigos nos invitaron a hacer sushi en su casa el otro dia y lo aprendimos al mas estilo Japones. A Luca le encanta! y ahora lo hacemos en casa, incluso con nuestras adiciones. A Luca le encanta el karate, le encanta cuando vamos al festival Japones, y su ultimo descubrimiento (y yo no se lo ensenho, el lo encuentra solito, me pregunta por ello, lo hacemos y se enamora)...el origami. Es un ninho creativo como su mama, siempre esta haciendo cosas por casa, y el origami le pega con su personalidad. Lo descubrio el otro dia en la tienda de arte cuando estabamos comprando acuarelas para un amigo. Estoy tan contenta de que un poquito de nuestra vida en Japon se quedo impregnada dentro de su alma.

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Friday, June 01, 2012

Friendships

I was lucky enough to find a wonderful group of crafty friends in this city. Actually I have been very fortunate to find all kinds of wonderful friends in this city, I can't complain. Not only quantity but quality as well. I feel very fortunate and I have been sharing tons of moments playing, eating, socializing, creating, parenting, exercising and just getting to know my friends. As a consequence, Luca is turning into a social butterfly. Good for him, so he won't have trouble in the future to fit in with different kinds of people. I hope. I try to get together with all kinds of different people and he ends up having friends who speak Spanish, English, hearing and hard of hearing, younger same age older, boys, girls, from different countries, from different cultural backgrounds, with different hobbies...I want him to be a tolerant and respectful person and I hope being surrounded by all this variety of people will help him. Here are some of the shots I took these days, of him with his friends, my friends, the crafts we made and more happy moments of the beginning of summer 2012.

He sido muy afortunada de encontrar un grupo de amigas muy artisticas en esta ciudad. De hecho, he tenido mucha suerte de encontrar todo tipo de amigos, no me puedo quejar. No solo muchos sino que ademas de calidad. Me siento muy afortunada de poder compartir tantos momentos jugando, comiendo, socializando, siendo mama, haciendo ejercicio y conociendo a mis amigos. Como consecuencia, Luca se esta volviendo muy sociable. Mejor para el, asi no tendra problemas en un futuro relacionandose con diferentes tipos de personas. Espero. Intento juntarme con todo tipo de personas y acaba teniendo amigos que hablan Espanhol, ingles, que oyen que son hipoacusos, mas pequenhos, de la edad y mayores, ninhos ninhas, de paises variados, de diferentes culturas, con diferentes hobbis....quiero que sea una persona tolerante y respetuosa y espero que el estar rodeado de todo este tipo de personas le ayude a eso. Aqui os muestro algunas fotos de estos dias, de el con sus amigos, mis amigos, las cosas que hemos creado y los momentos felices que estamos pasando en este inicio del verano del 2012.

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pirate flags

flor

costureras tejedoras

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pirates and princesses

with my friend

releasing butterflies

at the beach