<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062</id><updated>2012-01-27T14:11:11.200-06:00</updated><category term='bag'/><category term='bags tutorial'/><category term='All Labels:'/><title type='text'>Polvoron de Limon</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome to my blog. I am enjoying experimenting with different forms of art and crafts and talking about my son and his journey through the hearing world. Please feel free to leave comments :) And thank you for visiting my blog!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>526</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-537490306343162633</id><published>2012-01-23T10:51:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T10:51:16.189-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter?</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp; Hi! In the mid of winter we are, but it feels more like fall around here! What happened this year? I don't know but I am happy I don't have to warm up my car 10 min before leaving my house in order to even see something in the road! The weather is being crazy, and I can't help but think...are we causing this to our environment? I just hope this world is not too bad of a place for when Luca is a grown up, for when Luca's kids are grown ups, and so on...I try to do my part. I recycle everything I can, I put all the batteries in a plastic bottle to be disposed together in the least toxic way possible, I am conscious about the amounts of plastic, paper and waste that we use, I try to teach Luca that way too although sometimes, we all like the comfortable lifestyle common around here and we end up using disposable napkins and things like that. I am glad that pipeline to Canada has been stopped, I am glad this president put a foot down and decided that the environment is very important too and even though in this economy jobs are needed, there has to be other less harmful ways to create jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; I like when kids appreciate things, even those things that are not costly, it doesn't matter, everything in this world has a value, if we don't give value to little things, then they will start not giving value to all kinds of things, and then they will become more wasteful as well. These are things that are always in my mind but I don't get to write them here, especially since I haven't been writing much lately.&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to be more productive in this life, I have big plans for the future, but int he meantime, I am doing those things I won't have time to do in the future if things turn out the way I want. One of the&amp;nbsp;things&amp;nbsp;I have been doing is pottery. I started a new potter class using the wheel. It is so much fun, and I had done it just once before. I learned the basics one day and then I was self taught from there on. I didn't make great things, but I got some practice. This was about 6 or 7 years ago. Now, I thought I had to start from zero, but just like riding a bike, I hadn't forgotten! I have made 3 bowls or containers, the first stage anyways. One should be fired soon, the other 2 need trimming and then firing and then I will start with glazing. I love it, but it is not easy!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Hi!"&gt;¡Hola! Estamos a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="In the mid of winter we are, but it feels more like fall around here!"&gt;&amp;nbsp;mediados del invierno, pero parece más otonho por aquí!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="What happened this year?"&gt;¿Qué pasó este año?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I don't know but I am happy I don't have to warm up my car 10 min before leaving my house in order to even see something in the road!"&gt;No sé, pero estoy feliz que no tengo que calentar el coche 10 minutos antes de salir de mi casa para poder ver algo del camino mientras conduzco!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="The weather is being crazy, and I can't help but think...are we causing this to our environment?"&gt;El clima está loco, y no puedo dejar de pensar ... estamos haciendole esto a nuestro medio ambiente?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I just hope this world is not too bad of a place for when Luca is a grown up, for when Luca's kids are grown ups, and so on...I try to do my part."&gt;Sólo espero que este mundo no sea un lugar muy malo cuando Luca sea mayor, cuando los niños de Luca sean mayores, y así sucesivamente ... Yo trato de hacer mi parte.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I recycle everything I can, I put all the batteries in a plastic bottle to be disposed together in the least toxic way possible, I am conscious about the amounts of plastic, paper and waste that we use, I try to teach Luca that way too"&gt;Reciclo todo lo que puedo, pongo todas las pilas en una botella de plástico para desecharlas de la forma menos tóxica, soy consciente de la cantidad de plástico, papel y residuos que utilizamos, y trato de enseñarle esto a Luca&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="although sometimes, we all like the comfortable lifestyle common around here and we end up using disposable napkins and things like that."&gt;aunque a veces, a todos nos gusta la vida cómoda común por aquí y terminamos con servilletas desechables y cosas por el estilo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I am glad that pipeline to Canada has been stopped, I am glad this president put a foot down and decided that the environment is very important too and even though in this economy jobs are needed, there has to be other less harmful ways to create jobs"&gt;Me alegro de que la construccion del gaseoducto hacia Canadá se haya detenido, me alegro de que este presidente haya puesto un pie en el suelo y decidió que el medio ambiente también es muy importante y, aunque en esta economía se necesitan mas puestos de tranajo, tiene que haber otras formas menos dañinas para crear puestos de trabajo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="."&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" title="I like when kids appreciate things, even those things that are not costly, it doesn't matter, everything in this world has a value, if we don't give value to little things, then they will start not giving value to all kinds"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I like when kids appreciate things, even those things that are not costly, it doesn't matter, everything in this world has a value, if we don't give value to little things, then they will start not giving value to all kinds"&gt;Me gusta cuando los niños aprecian las cosas, incluso aquellas cosas que no son caras, no importa, todo en este mundo tiene un valor, si no le damos valor a las cosas pequeñas, entonces van a empezar a no dar valor a todo tipo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="of things, and then they will become more wasteful as well."&gt;de cosas, y entonces serán más gastones también.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="These are things that are always in my mind but I don't get to write them here, especially since I haven't been writing much lately."&gt;Estas son cosas en que siempre pienso, pero no suelo escribir aquí, sobre todo porque no he estado escribiendo mucho últimamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I have decided to be more productive in this life, I have big plans for the future, but int he meantime, I am doing those things I won't have time to do in the future if things turn out the way I want."&gt;&amp;nbsp; He decidido ser más productivo en esta vida, tengo grandes planes para el futuro, pero mientras tanto, estoy haciendo esas cosas que no tendre tiempo de hacer en el futuro si las cosas salen como yo quiero.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="One of the things I have been doing is pottery."&gt;Una de las cosas que he estado haciendo es cerámica.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I started a new potter class using the wheel."&gt;Empecé una nueva clase usando el tornin o rueda de alfarero.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="It is so much fun, and I had done it just once before."&gt;Es muy divertido, ya lo había hecho una vez antes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I learned the basics one day and then I was self taught from there on."&gt;En aquel entonces, aprendi lo básico en un día y luego fui autodidacta a partir de ahí.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I didn't make great things, but I got some practice."&gt;No hice grandes cosas, pero adquiri un poco de práctica.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="This was about 6 or 7 years ago."&gt;Esto fue hace 6 o 7 años.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Now, I thought I had to start from zero, but just like riding a bike, I hadn't forgotten!"&gt;Ahora &amp;nbsp;pensaba que tendría que empezar de cero, pero al igual que montar en bicicleta, no se me ha olvidado!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I have made 3 bowls or containers, the first stage anyways."&gt;He hecho 3 bols o recipientes, que estan aun en la primera etapa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="One should be fired soon, the other 2 need trimming and then firing and then I will start with glazing."&gt;Uno debería ya estar horneado, los otros 2 necesito recortarles el pie y luego dihornearlos y luego voy a empezar a pintarlos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="I love it, but it is not easy!"&gt;Me encanta, pero no es fácil!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; Aparte de eso, aquí pongo algunas fotos de las cosas que me mantienen ocupada en estos días.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;First of all,&amp;nbsp;Christmas&amp;nbsp;bags I made for Luca's teachers with a lotion inside:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Primero, unas bolsitas de Navidad que les hice a las profes de Luca:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6749668427/" title="Christmas bags by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Christmas bags" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6749668427_f5da1b819c.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The inner part of a quilt that I just finished yesterday:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; La parte del centro de una colcha que acabe ayer:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6749666523/" title="Pinwheel quilt by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pinwheel quilt" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6749666523_4a69605b70.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Luca's room decoration, based in his new passion, magic. Luca's magician profile:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;La decoracion del cuarto de Luca basada en su nueva pasion, magia. El perfil del mago Luca:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6749665755/" title="My magician by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="My magician" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6749665755_da691df85d.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;My favorite karate kid. He is in love with everything Japanese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mi karateca favorito, enamorado de todo lo Japones:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke;" title="Other than that, here are some pictures of the things that keep me busy these days."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6749667317/" title="Karate kid by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Karate kid" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6749667317_d607211cb6.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-537490306343162633?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/537490306343162633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=537490306343162633' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/537490306343162633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/537490306343162633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter.html' title='Winter?'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7769909286137021582</id><published>2011-12-31T23:48:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T23:48:35.211-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year!</title><content type='html'>May the New Year be filled with wonderful things, happy moments, good health and lots of growth! Of course lots of love and may your dreams come true!&lt;br /&gt;We have had a wonderful holiday, with family, relaxing and enjoying doing what we all like, eating, sleeping,, magic, eating, sleeping, cooking, reading, eating some more, sleeping some more, visiting, reading, sleeping, more magic...and always laughing or smiling. And to start with 2012, I want to share some pictures from our last days of 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Que el Año Nuevo este lleno de cosas maravillosas, momentos de felicidadm buena salud y mucho crecimiento! Y por supuesto mucho amor y que tus sueños se hagan realidad!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hemos pasado unas vacaciones maravillosas, con familia, relajados y disfrutando haciendo lo que nos gusta, comiendo, durmiendo, magia, comiendo, durmiendo, cocinando, leyendo, comiendo algo mas, durmierdo algo mas, visitando, leyendo, durmiendo, mas magia...y siempre a carcajadas o sonriendo. Y para comenzar con 2012, quiero compartir algunas fotos de nuestros dias del 2011.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610713243/" title="DSC_0157 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_0157" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6610713243_9129189b22.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610716507/" title="DSC_0183 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_0183" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6610716507_7609f2244a.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610720123/" title="DSC_0195 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_0195" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6610720123_7a381056cd.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610751575/" title="ducks by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="ducks" height="315" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6610751575_c0d5163c67.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610728539/" title="DSC_1691 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1691" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6610728539_265eeccc1c.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610733051/" title="DSC_1731 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1731" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6610733051_1f3f9653f0.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610747403/" title="big sweater by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="big sweater" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6610747403_1918f44fa0.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610742513/" title="DSC_1369 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1369" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6610742513_79caabd4f9.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610751819/" title="cutting Christmas tree by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="cutting Christmas tree" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6610751819_627f9f3643.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610737197/" title="DSC_1665 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1665" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6610737197_f6013a4133.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610756091/" title="DSC_1876 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1876" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6610756091_f91e540b12.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610760575/" title="DSC_0034 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_0034" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6610760575_073ca4f2b3.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610765451/" title="DSC_1821 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1821" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6610765451_142139fda4.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6610770567/" title="DSC_1518 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="DSC_1518" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6610770567_5b325c5ba1.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7769909286137021582?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7769909286137021582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7769909286137021582' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7769909286137021582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7769909286137021582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3226471871371479283</id><published>2011-12-08T23:30:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T23:45:24.941-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas is around the corner!</title><content type='html'>In this country sometimes even before Thanksgiving you start seeing signs of Christmas approaching! I thought that was a bit too much...but once we are in December, I can say I officially feel the Christmas spirit getting closer. We decided to put up the tree, so that Luca can talk about it at school, mainly, but also because it is so colorful and so pretty, that it brings some sense of warmth to our home. Not that we don't have color around here...but this is color and lights :) I am also working in a mini sewing project and I took the Christmas mini photography&amp;nbsp;class&amp;nbsp;taught by &lt;a href="http://www.jackierueda.com/"&gt;Jackie Rueda&lt;/a&gt;. That inspire me to put up the tree too, so I could take some shots. I am not that happy with my shots, but if I don't take pictures, I won't learn! And of course, I dropped my camera and broke one of my lenses, that I hope is under warranty still...so let's hope I get it back all repaired and nice soon...in the meantime, we will do with my other very much loved 35mm lense. Enjoy the pics!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;En este pais a veces incluso antes de Accion de Gracias empiezas a ver senhales de que la Navidad se acerca! Pienso que se pasan...pero una vez que entramos en Diciembre, la verdad es que yo tambien siento el espiritu de la Navidad aproximandose. Decidimos poner el arbolito, para que Luca pueda hablar de ello en el cole, sobretodo, pero tambien porque es tan colorido y tan bonito, que da calidez a nuestro hogar. No esque necesitemos mas color en casa...pero es que trae color y luces :) Tambien estoy haciendo un mini proyecto de costura e hice una mini clase de fotografia ensenhada por&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.jackierueda.com/"&gt;Jackie Rueda&lt;/a&gt;. Eso me inspiro a poner el arbol tambien, para poder hacer algunas fotos. No estoy muy conteta con las fotos, pero si no hago fotos no aprendo! y claro, se me cayo la camara y rompi una de mis lentes, que espero este bajo garantia aun...asi que esperemos que me la devuelvan arreglada pronto...mientras tanto, me conformo con mi otra lente que tanto quiero de 35 mm. Que disfruteis de las fotos!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480415467/" title="pigly by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="pigly" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6480415467_ecc747a73f.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480414307/" title="man by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="man" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6480414307_001525ef44.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480413131/" title="Me by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Me" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6480413131_5a563694ca.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480411911/" title="Angel by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Angel" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6480411911_d365017a97.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480410703/" title="Reno by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Reno" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6480410703_1a39163cf7.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480408409/" title="Vespa by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vespa" height="334" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6480408409_2dbdf91153.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6480407767/" title="Lights by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Lights" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6480407767_7e703d4ce7.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The funny thing about these shots is that in half of them you can see my reflection in some ornament, look for the hot pink sweater!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lo divertido sobre algunas de estas fotos es que en la mitad se me ve reflejada en alguna decoracion, buscar el jersey fucsia!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3226471871371479283?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3226471871371479283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3226471871371479283' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3226471871371479283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3226471871371479283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-is-around-corner.html' title='Christmas is around the corner!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8155076423484375575</id><published>2011-11-28T16:53:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T16:58:06.051-06:00</updated><title type='text'>My Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am taking another photography class, this time about Christmas. Reading the lessons, I feel that I captured the spirit of our last trip, hanging out with friends during the Thanksgiving holidays. It was a warm and happy time for all of us, and I think the pictures reflect that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Estoy haciendo otra clase de fotografia, esta vez sobre la Navidad. Leyendo las lecciones, siento que he capturado el espiritu durante nuestro ultimo viaje en la vacaciones del dia de accion de gracias. Fueron unos momentos calidos y felices para todos, y creo que las fotos lo reflejan.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421233849/" title="PG and his shade by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="PG and his shade" height="332" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6034/6421233849_b6fb0d9048.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421236077/" title="walking by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="walking" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6421236077_a1d0ddc3a8.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421238399/" title="horses by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="horses" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6421238399_a31274bc78.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421243463/" title="&amp;quot;paella&amp;quot; by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="&amp;quot;paella&amp;quot;" height="332" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6421243463_826a27c59c.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421245455/" title="super by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="super" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6421245455_3f03a5bb42.jpg" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421247813/" title="berries by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="berries" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6421247813_825407f6f6.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421249605/" title="Gharam Masala garbanzos by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Gharam Masala garbanzos" height="334" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6421249605_c4e78ff156.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421250989/" title="Turkey by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Turkey" height="334" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6098/6421250989_3013e02a1d.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421253689/" title="Luca Joao Victor by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Luca Joao Victor" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6421253689_bec27877c5.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421256155/" title="Fall by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fall" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6421256155_1ff196874a.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421258459/" title="Kicking by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Kicking" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6421258459_ed2f2acbdc.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6421260713/" title="Knoxville ball by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Knoxville ball" height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6421260713_6e2e506f3a.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8155076423484375575?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/8155076423484375575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=8155076423484375575' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8155076423484375575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8155076423484375575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-thanksgiving.html' title='My Thanksgiving'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6386840051226490686</id><published>2011-11-21T21:53:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T22:31:33.557-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The world through the eyes of a 6 year old</title><content type='html'>The years go by so quickly, and I am guessing this is a good thing. Luca is 6 now and I think, wow he is not a little boy anymore, this thing that I tell him all the time and we tell everybody, it means something. I can hardly hold him, and we can have pretty reasonable conversations, not baby-like conversations, he can reason with me, or try to, and it is a bit easier for the two of us. Still once in a while I can get a bit desperate with things that he does and I recall all the hard days when he was younger. How hard it is at times to educate a child and to not get mad. Those moments don't happen very frequently anymore, and in a way I feel nostalgic that I don't have a little baby with me anymore. But on the sunny side, he is a delight to talk to, he is funny and comes up with ideas that are still within a child's free state of mind. I love it. He keeps on asking me how old was he when he was a baby, and telling people that he was very funny (because I show him videos of himself), he keeps on talking about the Thanksgiving "feast", he says lets pretend we have lots of people here so we can make a feast. So cute, I guess it is the way he is discovering the world. He tells people how when he was little he got new implants and he had to wear a big bandage around his head. He explains kids that his implants help him hear, that when he doesn't have them on he can't hear and that when he goes to sleep he doesn't wear them either. In those moments, he makes me very proud, great self advocacy skills, and then I see the mom of the kid he has been talking too and she is horrified mouthing "I'm sorry" to me, when on the other hand I think it is wonderful that her child would ask and that Luca can explain. The world without taboos or social complexes, so nice, I wish we had more of that in our lives as adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Los anhos pasan tan rapidamente y bueno supongo que eso es bueno. Luca ya tiene 6 anhos y pienso, jo ya no es un bebe, esto que le digo a todas horas y que el le dice a todo el mundo tiene algo de realidad. A penas lo puedo levantar, y ya podemos tener conversaciones bastante razonables, no como con un bebe, puede razonar, o intentarlo, y es mas facil para los dos. De vez en cuando aun me desespero con cosas que hace y me acuerdo de lo dificil que era cuando era pequenho. Lo dificil que es educar a los ninhos sin enfadarse. Esos momentos ya no pasan a menudo, y en cierto modo, los echo de menos. Pero po suerte, hoy por hoy es un gustazo hablar con el, el divertido, y se le ocurre cada cosa que solo es posible en la mente libre de un ninho. Me encanta. Me pregunta a todas horas que cuantos anhos tenia cuando era bebe, y le cuenta a todo el mundo sobre el "festin" de accion de gracias, dice vamos a imaginarnos que tenemos mucha gente en casa y hagamos un festin. Que mono, debe ser su manera de descubri el mundo. Le dice a mucha gente que cuando era pequenho le pusieron sus implantes nuevos y que tenia que ponerse una benda muy grande en la cabeza. Explica a otros ninhos que sus implantes le ayudan a escuchar, que cuando no los tiene no oye nada y que cuando se va a dormir se los quita. En esos momentos, me siento muy orgullosa de el, que manera de hablar de si mismo, y luego veo a la mama del ninho con el que ha estado hablando diciendome "lo siento" , cuando para mi me parece maravilloso que el ninho pregunte y que Luca pueda explicarle todo. El mundo sin tabues o complejos sociales, que bien estaria, me gustaria que tuvieramos mas de eso en nuestra vida como adultos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6381089555/" title="Max at the play by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Max at the play" height="500" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6120/6381089555_934b8b236e.jpg" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6381093679/" title="Ben ten by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ben ten" height="500" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6032/6381093679_b9eaffe441.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here is the pictures of Luca during his birthday and also of the power rangers cake that I made him. I used fondant made from scratch, it was fun and most importantly, it was a hit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y aqui van las fotos de Luca durante su cumple y tambien de la tarta de power rangers que le hice. Use fondant hecho por mi, lo pase bien y lo mas importante fue todo un exito!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6381097027/" title="Power ranger in his birthday by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Power ranger in his birthday" height="364" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6048/6381097027_05f54e069c.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6381111613/" title="Power rangers cake by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Power rangers cake" height="332" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6115/6381111613_499815f49a.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6386840051226490686?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6386840051226490686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6386840051226490686' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6386840051226490686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6386840051226490686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/11/world-through-eyes-of-6-year-old.html' title='The world through the eyes of a 6 year old'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8608077544875761772</id><published>2011-11-09T23:34:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T23:40:11.430-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Almost 6!</title><content type='html'>Hi there!&lt;br /&gt;I have this poor blog totally in a corner of my life! I think about it often, but lately I don't even think about posting anything...I really need to consider what I will do about it, either get to an end with it or just go into writing in the spur of the moment as usual. We shall see.&lt;br /&gt;Today I have a nice thing to share. I was at a restaurant having lunch with some friends in a private room, when a woman interrupted us and said, is there someone here with a black and white purse??? Remember that black and white purse I made for myself last time? Well, that was me! I though oh no! I lost it, someone took it!! but no! it was hanging from my chair! And she then proceeded to say...."I loved it! where did you buy it??" so I said "I made it (with a big smile)" and she said "do you sell them?" to which if she had asked a year ago I would have said "yes!!" and figure out a way to get more of that pretty bold fabric...but right now...I had to say no. My friends were looking like me like I was nuts letting that opportunity go by! But I really have my head in so many other places right now, that I rather make things for the people I know and love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hola!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tengo abandonado a este pobre blog! Pienso en el a menudo, pero ultimamente no tengo ganas de escribir nada...necesito considerar lo que quiero hacer con esto, o acabarlo o seguir escribiendo esporadicamente cuando me apetezca. Veremos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoy me ha pasado algo que me gustaria compartir. Estaba en un restaurante comiendo con unas amigas en una habitacion privada cuando de repente una mujer nos interrumpe y dice, hay alguien aqui con un bolso blanco y negro??? Os acordais de ese bolso que me hice el otro dia? Bueno, esa soy yo! pense oh no! lo perdi, alguien se lo llevo!!! pero no! estaba colgado de mi silla! Y entonces siguio diciendo..."Me encanta! donde lo has comprado??" a lo que le dije "lo hice yo (con una gran sonrisa en mi cara)" y me dijo "los vendes?" a lo que hace un anho le hubiera respondido si!!" y hubiera visto la manera de encontrar mas tela como esa...pero ahora...tuve que decirle que no. Mis amigas me miraban como si estuviera loca desperdiciando una oportunidad asi! Pero la verdad es que tengo mi cabeza en tantos otros lugares en este momento, que prefiero hacer cosas para aquellos que conozco y que quiero.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we just came back from our annual research trip to Wisconsin. Luca participates in a research study of bilateral implants. I was so impressed with his performance. Of course he has to do better as he is one year older, but last year he was sick too so his performance, although it was good, wasn't great. Now I am looking forward to seeing the results, I love seeing the way he thinks and reasons things, he is going to be a logical boy just like his parents :) We also spent time with good friends, it is great having the opportunity to see them every year. Here is Luca with the beautiful fall foliage in the background. He will be 6 in just a couple of days...my big big boy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y acabamos de regresar de nuestro viaje anual a Wisconsin. Luca participa en un estudio de investigacion sobre implantes bilaterales. Me impresiono como lo hizo de bien. Por supuesto que tiene que hacerlo mejor que el anho pasado pues es un anho mayor, pero ademas el anho pasado estaba muy malito y &amp;nbsp;aunque habia avanzado un anho o mas no le fue tan bien como debia. Ahora estoy deseando ver los resultados, me encanta ver como piensa y razona las cosas, va a ser un ninho logico como sus papas :) Tambien pasamos un buen rato con nuestros amigos, que bien tener esta oportunidad de juntarnos cada anho. Aqui esta Luca con las hojas de los arboles en otonho. Cumplira 6 en solo un par de dias...mi ninho grandote...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6331212162/" title="luca fall by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="luca fall" height="332" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6331212162_fafdaae5e0.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8608077544875761772?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/8608077544875761772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=8608077544875761772' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8608077544875761772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8608077544875761772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/11/almost-6.html' title='Almost 6!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6331212162_fafdaae5e0_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-576283290741339551</id><published>2011-10-29T21:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T22:01:35.116-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New era PS CS5</title><content type='html'>I have had the photoshop PS5 on my desk for some time now and waiting to have enough time to install it and figure out the kinks of it. That day has arrived! I installed it yesterday and I just tried my new photo edition. I realize it is easy following tutorials on the internet, but I need to get familiarized with how it works, a bit different from the one I used years ago.&lt;br /&gt;I picked a picture that I took of Luca, in our little outing the other day to take fall pictures. He started crying as soon as we stepped outside, he was not in the mood! and then I just let him do his thing, that is, digging for worms, so I could take a few (more than 300) shots of him, and try to get one or two of him looking at the camera. He has beautiful green eyes and I never get to capture them!!!&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, here is the edited version of the pic. It's kind of vintage. I am warming up to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;He tenido el photoshop CS5 encima de mi escritorio ya un tiempo y estaba esperando a tener el tiempo suficiente como para poder instalarlo y averiguar como usarlo. Ha llegado el dia! Lo instale ayer y acabo de probarlo con una edicion de una foto. Me doy cuenta de que es facil siguiendo los tutoriales de internet, pero necesito familiarizarme con como funciona, un poco differente de aquel que usaba yo hace mil anhos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elegi una foto que hice de Luca, en una salida del otro dia en la que le quise hacer fotos otonhales. Emepzo a llorar en cuanto puso el pie fuera de casa, no queria!! y asi que le deje que hiciera loq eu quisiera, osea, buscar gusanos, para poder fotografiarle un poquito (mas de 300 fotos), e intentar conseguir una o dos fotos en la que este mirando a la camara. Tiene unos ojos verdes preciosos pero nunca los puedo fotografiar!!!&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, aqui esta la version editada de la foto. Es como antigua. Me estoy acostumbrando a ella.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6293525130/" title="vintage luca by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="vintage luca" height="415" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6293525130_9082193816.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I am finally making stuff again. I made several cakes and breads, but I am also sewing. Other than finishing the Halloween costume for Luca, I also made myself a bag. I found this nice wool fabric on sale, and couldn't help myself. Like Luca would say "of course".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6293646032/" title="power ranger - Halloween by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="power ranger - Halloween" height="281" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6293646032_e1118cf6d5.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y por fin estoy haciendo cosas. He hecho varios bizcochos y panes, pero tambien estoy cosiendo. A parte de acabar el disfraz de Halloween de Luca, me he hecho una bolsa. Encontre esta tela tan chula de lana de superoferta, y no lo pude evitar. Como diria Luca "por supuesto".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6293595196/" title="bag by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="bag" height="281" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6232/6293595196_04027f90ce.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-576283290741339551?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/576283290741339551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=576283290741339551' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/576283290741339551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/576283290741339551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-era-ps-cs5.html' title='New era PS CS5'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6293525130_9082193816_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4637151822512775501</id><published>2011-10-17T00:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T00:50:44.878-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Hi again!I am back here without much progress in my creative side. But with lots of good energy and good thoughts, that I hope one day I am going to convert them in reality. About my previous post, I agree, I feel I have to justify my life sometimes, because I have lots of training and I am not using it to earn my bread, but it turns out, I have used some of it during Luca's journey. There were so many times that I thought, fortunately I am a researcher, I know how to look for information, I know how to get resources, and I know how to process and understand useful information that if you don't have that science background it sometimes is hard. I can make better decisions because of the background I have and for that, I feel it was all worth it already. I guess my only reason to move on with a job would be looking into the future, but for now, in the present I am just fine.I was watching a movie last night. It was about John Lennon's early life. It was a good movie, and it made me want to learn how to play the guitar even more. I feel there is this artistic side of me that is wanting to come out in all different ways, and this is one, music. It seems like when he started he knew nothing about playing instruments, but with a lot of willingness to succeed he learned, and of course he was a very talented person, composer and musician. Not that I would want that, I just want to enjoy playing. I found a guitar store not far from home. I was so happy in that groovy environment, but classes are very expensive. I know I can do it by myself, I just need motivation to continue learning in a regular basis. I also put new strings in Luca's little guitar and it sounds way better. He is starting to realize how to put his fingers to play chords, I love it. Maybe we will jamm together some day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Hola de nuevo!Estoy de vuelta sin mucho progreso en el lado creativo. Pero con mucha buena energica y buenas ideas, que espero que algun dia se conviertan en realidad. Sobre mi entrada anterior, estoy de acuerdo, a veces siento que me tengo que justificar en mi vida, porque tengo tanta educacion que no estoy usando para ganarme el pan, pero resulta que ne realidad, si que he usado bastante de lo que aprendi durante la aventura de Luca. Hay tantas veces en las que he pensado que por suerte soy investigadora, que se como buscar informacion, que se como encontrar recursos, y que se como procesar y enternder la informacion que si no tuviera esa base de ciencias seria mucho mas dificil. Puedo tomar mejores decisiones por ese historial que tengo y por eso, creo que todo merecio la pena. Creo que la unica razon para seguir adelante buscando un trabajo seria mirando al futuro, pero por ahora, en el presente estoy bien.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ayer estaba viendo una peli. Era sobre la vida de John Lennon de joven. Estuvo bien, y me hizo querer seguir tocando la guitarra aun mas. Siento que tengo este lado artistico dentro de mi que quiere salir de muchas maneras diferentes, y esta es una, la musica. Parece que cuando empezo no sabia nada de tocar instrumentos, pero con mucho interes y ganas de ser famoso aprendio, y claro que era una persona con mucho talento, compositor y musico. No esque quiera llegar a eso, solo necesito motivarme para continuar aprendiendo de manera regular. Tambien le cambie las cuerdas a la guitarra de Luca y suena mucho mejor. Esta empezando a darse cuenta de como poner los dedos para tocar acordes, me encanta. Quizas toquemos juntos algun dia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Well one thing I always do is cook. I bought this fish stock to make paella...and I am not sure where I messed up, but the paella looked great but didn't taste much like anything! It drives me insane! but the next day, when I recook it with some garlic and some more salt it does taste delicious and the fish flavor somehow comes out. It is a mystery to me, the thing is the more I make some dish the better I get at it, like potato omelets and black beans and rice, those  I am really good at, but paella, it's a whole different story. Here is my beautiful paella.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Pues una cosa que siempre hago es cocinar. Compre caldo de pescado para hacer paella...y no se donde meti la pata, pero la paella tenia muy buena pinta pero no sabia a nada! me vuelvo loca! pero al dia siguiente, cuando la salteo con ajos y algo mas de sal esta muy rica y si que sale el saborcito a pescado. Es un misterio, la cosa es que cuanto mas repito una receta mejor me sale, como con las tortillas de patatas y los frijoles negros con arroz (feijoada), esos me salen muy bien, pero la paella, es otra historia. Aqui esta mi paella preciosa.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6252488679/" title="paellita by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="paellita" height="332" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6252488679_b2c8161713.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4637151822512775501?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4637151822512775501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4637151822512775501' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4637151822512775501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4637151822512775501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/10/hi-againi-am-back-here-without-much.html' title=''/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6252488679_b2c8161713_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6680208264525129107</id><published>2011-10-12T00:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T00:00:06.072-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The unpaid job</title><content type='html'>Today, 6 years ago, I had a huge belly, a kid kicking inside (named Tarzan at the time) some funky contractions, and I was ready to defend my degree that I had been working on for 4.5 years. I did great, I am not sure if the belly imposed, but I got over that, I ascended to a new status in life, I was treated with a different degree of respect by some, and I was ready to start my life as a mom. And I did that, a month later, and the following years. And now, that I am trying to put to use all the knowledge and experience gained during those years, nothing happens. I have too many degrees, or too long of a gap, or maybe lack of experience in some areas, or I am just shooting for the wrong positions. I think is a combination of all those, and although it may sound like I should feel disappointed, for some reason, I don't. There are so many other things that I want to do, that it makes me question if I choose the right career path from the beginning, or if I should have followed my instincts, and pursued a more creative career. I guess I can create, as a hobbyist, but at the same time, to live a more comfortable life, and to give my son all the things that he will be needing in the future, I need to make money. But for now, I will continue with my unpaid job of being a mom, and with my multiple hobbies and enjoying life as I continue having it, while I support my family the way I've been doing until now. And the day that job comes into my life, then, I will support my family in a different way, and fulfill the gap that is pushing me now into looking for a paying job. My hobbies: photography, playing guitar, sewing, reading, educating, playing, socializing, I really can't complain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Hoy hace 6 años, tenia una barrigota, un niño dentro pegandome patadas (llamado Tarzan en su día) algunas contracciones, y estaba a punto de defender mi trabajo en el que habia estado ocupando los ultimos 4.5 años. Lo hice muy bien, no sé si la barrigota impuso, pero superé aquello, ascendí a otro estatus en mi vida, algunos me trataban con otro nivel de respeto, y estaba lista para comenzar mi vida como mama. Y asi lo hice, un mes despues, y los años que siguieron. Y ahora, que estoy intentando poner en uso el conocimiento y la experiencia ganada durante esos años, no pasa nada. Tengo demasiados títulos, o demasiado tiempo sin hacer nada, o quizás la falta de experiencia en algunas áreas, o estoy pidiendo las posiciones equivocadas. Creo que es una combinación de todas, y aunque parezca que deba sentirme defraudada, por alguna razón, no me siento. Hay tantas otras cosas que quiero hacer, a veces me pregunto si elegí la carrera adecuada, o si debería haber seguido mis instintos y haber hecho algo más creativo. Supongo que aún así puedo crear, como hobby, pero al mismo tiempo, para vivir una vida más cómoda, y para poder darle a mi hijo todo lo que necesite en un futuro, necesito tener un sueldo. Pero por ahora, continuaré con mi trabajo sin sueldo de ser mama y con mis muchos hobbis y disfrutando de la vida mientras la tengo, mientras mantengo a mi familia como lo he vendio hacienda hasta ahora. Y el día que un trabajo llegue a mi vida, entonces, mantendré a mi familia de otra manera, y rellenare esa necesidad que ahora me empuja a buscar un trabajo con sueldo. Mis hobbys: la fotografía, tocar a la guitarra, coser, leer, educar, jugar, socializar, la verdad, no me puedo quejar.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6234418025/" title="Reflejo by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Reflejo" height="334" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6237/6234418025_459d6b04d0.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6680208264525129107?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6680208264525129107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6680208264525129107' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6680208264525129107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6680208264525129107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/10/unpaid-job.html' title='The unpaid job'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6237/6234418025_459d6b04d0_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7155674765495461304</id><published>2011-10-04T00:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T00:05:56.576-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reflexiones</title><content type='html'>Sorry if my last post was a bit too deep! I sometimes get like that, I am not any different today, but I will try to cheer up a bit writing this blog post. Our fish Jack is still alive, he has gotten used to us and we have gotten used to him. We know how to keep his tank clean and do a pretty good job at looking after him. Let's see what happens when we go for our trips that we have programmed for the next couple of months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was reading about a new implant device that was approved last year for people with the same kind of hearing loss like Luca's. This new implant is not approved for children yet, but it has the advantage that it is fully implanted, meaning that it doesn't have any external part. It uses the middle ear as the natural microphone and the stimulation that eh implant passes goes from the bones of the middle ear to the cochlea, that is the one that is not functioning properly and this&amp;nbsp;stimulates&amp;nbsp;the auditory nerve. I thought it was such a neat idea, the good thing about it is that they are able to hear in the shower and while they sleep, which right now, Luca can't do. That is to their advantage, for safety reasons and it is very encouraging to see how fast technology is improving. I know that Luca will be able to wear all different kinds of devices, I mean, it has been just 3 years and he has had 2 kinds already! I don't want to get too excited about this one that was realized because who knows if he would even be a candidate for it in the future. So I like to think in the present, and deal with what we have now, which is already quite amazing. Looking at a video of a 29 year old woman who got hers turned on the other day made me think about the video of Luca's first time he heard with an implant. I found it and watched it. It was long and it took a while until I got to the part where he was "turned on". Poor baby, he was so little and he had to do so much for us. It was not a pleasant feeling for him, or at least, it made him cry, he got scared. He had never heard such a thing. He was cool once he got a chocolate in his mouth and the therapist, audiologist and myself did&amp;nbsp;everything&amp;nbsp;we could to map that implant, to make him wear it and to make the best out of the situation. It was&amp;nbsp;tough&amp;nbsp;for me, I was alone and I was determined. Now that I see it with some time, with some perspective, now that I know how far he has gotten, I am able to relax and wonder how strong did I have to be to do all of this, to keep him happy and take him to the right places. It feels like when you get to the end of the race and you look at the footage and see how hard we all worked to get here. That's how I feel. I feel accomplished and happy that I did it this way, I feel proud of my boy and I know that actually the race is not over, but together we will get wherever we need to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Siento si mi último mensaje fue un poco demasiado profundo! A veces me pongo asi, sigo igual hoy, pero voy a tratar de animar un poco lo que escribo en este blog. Nuestro pez Jack aún está vivo, se ha acostumbrado a nosotros y nos hemos acostumbrado a él. Sabemos cómo mantener su tanque limpio y cuidarlo bien. Vamos a ver qué pasa cuando nos vayamos a nuestros viajes que hemos programado para el próximo par de meses.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaba leyendo acerca de un nuevo implante que fue aprobado el año pasado para las personas con el mismo tipo de pérdida auditiva que Luca. Este nuevo implante no está aprobado para niños aún, pero tiene la ventaja de que está totalmente implantado, lo que significa que no tiene parte externa. Utiliza el oído medio como micrófono natural y la estimulación que pasa el implante va de los huesos del oído medio hasta la cóclea, que es lo que no está funcionando adecuadamente y esto estimula el nervio auditivo. Me parecio una buena idea, lo bueno es que son capaces de escuchar en la ducha y mientras duermen, lo que en este momento, Luca no se puede hacer. Que es una ventaja, por razones de seguridad y es muy alentador ver cómo la tecnología está mejorando rápidamente. Yo sé que Luca tendra varios dispositivos en su vida, es mas, en tan sólo 3 años ha tenido dos tipos distintos! Yo no quiero entusiasmarme con este en concreto, pues quién sabe si incluso Luca sería candidato para ese modelo en el futuro. Prefiero pensar en el presente, y hacer frente a lo que tenemos ahora, que ya es bastante sorprendente. Vi un video de una mujer de 29 años que escuchaba con un implante por primera vez en su vida,  y eso me hizo pensar en el video de la primera vez que Luca oyó con un implante. Lo encontré y lo vi. Tuve que pasarlo mucho rato hasta que llegué a la parte donde le "conectaban". Pobrecito, era tan pequenho y pedíamos tanto de el. No fue una sensación agradable para él, o por lo menos, le hizo llorar, se asustó. Nunca había oído una cosa así. Estaba feliz una vez que le metiamos un chocolate en la boca y la logopeda, la audióloga y yo hicimos todo lo posible para que le mapearan del implante, para hacer que se lo ponga y para sacar el mejor partido de la situación. Fue duro para mí, yo estaba sola pero decidida. Ahora que lo veo con algo de tiempo, con un poco de perspectiva, ahora que sé lo lejos que ha llegado Luca, y que puedo relajarme, me pregunto como fui de fuerte para hacer todo esto, para mantenerlo feliz y llevarlo a los lugares adecuados. Es como sentir que llegas a la final de la carrera y miras las imágenes filmadas y ves lo duro que todos hemos trabajado para llegar aquí. Así es como me siento. Me siento realizada y feliz por haberlo hecho de esta manera, me siento orgullosa de mi hijo y sé que en realidad la carrera no ha terminado, pero juntos vamos a llegar a donde necesitemos ir.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GTeMY_8xwTw" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7155674765495461304?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7155674765495461304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7155674765495461304' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7155674765495461304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7155674765495461304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/10/reflexiones.html' title='Reflexiones'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/GTeMY_8xwTw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8762486701066076319</id><published>2011-09-26T21:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T23:51:31.173-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The funny thing about Taiko</title><content type='html'>My son Luca and I have started taiko classes. More specifically osuwa daiko. This is a mixture of Japanese drumming with some martial arts movements. It is quite a challenge for Luca being Deaf, but I think it is important for him to learn about music as it will help him develop his ability to listen and appreciate sounds better. The fun thing about this class is that is for both of us. The parents do it then the children do it. I can tell you something, I did it 2 days ago and I can feel my arms. It is some serious exercise if you do it right, and when all the drummers are synchronized it is so awesome! For Luca on the other hand, it is hard and it is difficult both to hold the bachi (sticks) and to follow the rhythm. But we don't give up, I never did, why should I do it now?  Challenges are challenges and once you conquer them, you feel so great. Luca will conquer this one, and we will both celebrate. On his second day, initially he didn't want to go, but then he decided that when he grows up he wants to be a drum player and give performances. How cool is that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Mi hijo Luca y yo hemos empezado clases de taiko. Mas en concreto de osuwa daiko. Es una mezcla de tambores japoneses con algunos movimientos de artes marciales. Es un desafio para el al ser sordo, pero creo que es importante que aprenda sobre la musica ya que le va a ayudar a desarrollar su abilidad de escuchar y apreciar mejor los sonidos. Lo mas divertido es que la clase es para los dos. Los padres lo hacen entonces les toca a los ninhos. La verdad, lo hice hace dos dias y lo noto en los brazos! Es un ejercicio muy fuerte si lo haces bienm y cuando los que tocan estan sincronizados es chulisimo! Para Luca en cambio, es dificil tanto sugetar los bachi (palos) como seguir el ritmo. Pero no nos rendimos, nunca lo hice, porque hacerlo ahora? Los desafios son desafios y una vez los conquistas, te sientes muy bien. Luca conquistara este, y lo celebraremos los dos. En su segunda clase, al principio no queria ir, pero luego decidio que de mayor queria tocar los tambores y hacer espectaculos. Que chulo no?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Changing subjects, these past weeks have been full of grief. A lot of lost lives around people that are close to me. It is easy to relate, unfortunately, and so awful to remember how painful it is to lose someone you love so much. Another reminder that life is just a short dream, and that we better make the best of it. This, we tend to forget easily and we continue to believe that we are immortal and everlasting. I tried to teach Luca about life and death, with his new friend Jack, the goldfish, but only tears came out of his eyes. Well, it is better to learn about this concept that is so natural all around us at an early age, so that he has it present and he is conscious about life, good choices, and the joy of living. I'm not trying to traumatize the kiddo but I am just not scared to talk about it. Death is part of life, I think it is OK to cry and grieve the lost of someone we miss, that is natural too, but we cannot pretend that death doesn't get to us....because it will one day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Cambiando de tema, estas ultimas semanas han sido bastante dolorosas. Muchas vidas perdidas de seres queridos de gente cercana a mi. Es facil sentirme identificada, por desgracia, y terrible recordar lo doloroso que es perder a laguien a quien quieres mucho. Otro recordatorio de que la vida no es mas que un corto suenho, y que mas vale disfrutarlo al maximo. Esto, lo solemos olvidar y seguimos creyendo que somos inmortales y eternos. Le intente explicar a Luca sobre la vida y la muerte, con su nuevo amigo Jack, el pececito, pero nada mas que le salian lagrimones. Bueno, es mejor saber sobre este concepto que es tan natural en todo nuestro entorno desde bien temprano, para que este presente y sea consciente sobre la vida, las buenas decisiones y la alegria de vivir. No quiero traumatizar al enano pero no me da miedo hablar de la muerte. La muerte es parte de la vida, esta bien llorar y sentir dolor porque echamos de menos a los seres que nos faltan, es natural, pero no podemos desestimar que la muerte no nos llega a nosotros...porque un dia lo hara.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;And these are some of my latest pics...I have been lazy lately, the crummy weather doesn't help, let's see if the sun will decide to come out to take more pics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Y aqui van algunas de mis ultimas fotos...he estado un poco perezosa, este tiempo medio chungo no ayuda, a ver si el sol se anima a salir para hacer mass fotos&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6153244058/" title="#38. Proyecto Verano. Avion by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="#38. Proyecto Verano. Avion" height="334" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6153244058_1186cf894b.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6152700611/" title="#37 Proyecto Verano. Tilt by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="#37 Proyecto Verano. Tilt" height="333" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6152700611_a3844642c1.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6126359116/" title="#36. Proyecto Verano. Tio Vivo by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="#36. Proyecto Verano. Tio Vivo" height="332" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6062/6126359116_9fbf6c3444.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8762486701066076319?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/8762486701066076319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=8762486701066076319' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8762486701066076319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8762486701066076319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/funny-thing-about-taiko.html' title='The funny thing about Taiko'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6153244058_1186cf894b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1219244603368784402</id><published>2011-09-21T23:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T23:19:00.036-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thai pants</title><content type='html'>I have always liked pants for me to wear, I have always like wide pants of different kinds, and when I saw somewhere in the internet about these pants that reminded me to my hometowns festival, I though I should go and make some. The problem here is that fabric is expensive and they require lots of it. I then saw that a store was closing and went and of course the color I had to buy was mustard yellow...for these kind of pants. Anyways, I made them, I like them, I have worn them just once, but I feel very comfortable with them and I still have fabric leftover :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Siempre me han gustado pantalones anchos, de diferentes tipos, y cuando vi en internet unos que me recordaban un poco a las fiestas de mi pueblo, pense que deberia hacerme unos. El problema es que aqui la tela es muy cara y estos requieren bastante. Cuando vi que cerraban una tienda de telas, fui y claro esta me tuve que comprar la tela de color mostaza...para estos pantalones. Bueno, los hice, y me gustan, me los he puesto una vez, pero me siento muy comoda en ellos y aun me sobra tela :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6165234894/" title="Pantalones tailandeses by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pantalones tailandeses" height="310" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6171/6165234894_b7ac436c9e.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1219244603368784402?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1219244603368784402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1219244603368784402' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1219244603368784402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1219244603368784402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/thai-pants.html' title='Thai pants'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6171/6165234894_b7ac436c9e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7849965019712119710</id><published>2011-09-19T23:03:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T23:03:46.205-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fishished!</title><content type='html'>Ha! I made a mistake writing the title but then I laughed and left it as is because we did get a fish this weekend and so I am a bit&amp;nbsp;obsessed&amp;nbsp;about it ad it even comes out when I am trying to say something else. Jack is the reason why I have been out of most other things these past couple of days. He is a goldfish that came from a fair, poor thing traveled in a plastic bag, and went to the pet store, where we could buy him some food. There I was told that he wouldn't live much, unless I had a huge tank and I changed the water frequently because they are dirty fish, get the water dirty&amp;nbsp;quickly&amp;nbsp;and usually die because of fungal disease derived from the dirty water, this is specially true for small aquariums. So I decided to buy him the best affordable aquarium I could get, small one, because I have no room for more, and all the&amp;nbsp;accessories&amp;nbsp;and when he moves on to a better life, then we can get an easier fish. Luca treated him like one more member of the family, he talked to him and showed him his car and asked him if he could buckle him in the car. Very funny, and very strong feelings! When I told him that sometimes fish die because they might not be happy in their new house, he cried and cried and tried to figure out how to make him happy. He wondered of it was his fault for shaking the bag all the way home, he cried about 10 min about it even though I assured him that in the sea it was shaky as well because of the waves. Well, he had a sad couple of day but he seems to be doing fine! He is still with us and I am&amp;nbsp;learning&amp;nbsp;a bit more every day about how to take care of him. Let's see how he does! For now, we have this whole new learning experience!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ja! Me he equivocado en el titulo y me rio porque la verdad es que puse "fishished" queriendo poner "finished" pero esque como tenemos un pececito en casa se ve que estoy un poco obsesionada con eso y es lo que me sale. Jack es la razon por la que he estado en otra en estos ultimos dias. Es un pececito de color que vino de una feria, el pobrecito viajo en una bolsa de plastico, y fue a la tienda de animales domesticos, donde le fuimos a compar comida. Ahi ya me avisaron de que no duraria mucho vivo, a no ser de que tuviera un tanque mas grande y le cambiase el agua a menudo porque son peces sucios, manchan el agua muy rapido y suelen morir de alguna enfermedad u hongo derivada del agua sucia, sobretodo en peceritas pequenhas. Asi que le compre la mejor pecera dentro de mi presupuesto con todos sus accesorios y cuando pase a otra vida, compraremos otro que sea mas facil de criar. Luca le trato como uno mas de la familia, le hablaba y le ensenhaba nuestro coche y luego le queria atar al asiento. Una risa, y com mucho sentimiento! Cuando le comente que a veces los peces se mueren porqeu puede que no esten contentos en su nuevo hogar, lloro y lloro y empezo a pensar como hacerle feliz. Se preguntaba si era culpa suya por menear la bolsita al traelo a casa, lloro como 10 minutos por esto aunque yo le convenci de que igual el mar se menea con las olas. Bueno, tuvo un par de dias tristes pero parece que ya esta mas contento! Aun esta con nosotros y estoy aprendiendo cada dia algo mas de como cuidar de el. A ver como le va! Por ahora, es una experiencia nueva!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6165234502/" title="Jack the goldfish by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Jack the goldfish" height="332" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6165234502_32e4b059bd.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;But what that title was really referring to was the quilt that I made for Luca. He designed the part with the logo and the colorful part was my idea. But I did use his own drawing of Batman. He is happily using it in his bed now. I am glad to finish a big project yipiii!!!&lt;em&gt;Pero a lo que el titulo se referia realmente era a que acabe la colcha que empece para Luca. La disenho el, la parte del logotipo y la parte colorida es mi idea. Pero use su dibujo de Batman. Esta feliz durmiendo con ella en su camita. Estoy contenta de haber tenminado un proyecto tan grande Yupiiii!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6165236952/" title="Quilt BATMAN by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Quilt BATMAN" height="305" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6175/6165236952_eceef2cd49.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7849965019712119710?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7849965019712119710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7849965019712119710' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7849965019712119710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7849965019712119710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/fishished.html' title='Fishished!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6165234502_32e4b059bd_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7806363164314088380</id><published>2011-09-08T20:21:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T20:21:33.501-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Volver</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp; And here we are again, second try. Will this last??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Y aqui estamos de nuevo, la segunda vez. Durara??&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6126099648/" title="#35 Proyecto Verano. Guitarrita by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="#35 Proyecto Verano. Guitarrita" height="332" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6126099648_edd9949d89.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7806363164314088380?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7806363164314088380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7806363164314088380' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7806363164314088380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7806363164314088380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/volver.html' title='Volver'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6071/6126099648_edd9949d89_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7951937718779874986</id><published>2011-09-07T23:51:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T23:51:10.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Castle</title><content type='html'>Luca loves going to the library. We go so often that it has become something really special for both of us. We used to get 3 or 4 books and maybe a movie but now we get out of there with at least 10 books for him. It is so much fun to read random books that you really don't even know what they are about. Sometimes they are too hard or too long or too abstract, but sometimes we love them, they are funny, easy to follow and interesting. At school, they also have a library, and now once a week, they go get a book to take home. Luca told me took a book about "making". It was a book about constructing things out of recycled materials you would find at home. He had his eyes on this humongous castle, and his aunt to help him. They worked hard all weekend, didn't get out of the house for 2 days, but this is what they made. Amazing isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;A Luca le encanta ir a la biblioteca. Solemos ir tan a menudo que se ha convertido en algo muy especial para los dos. Soliamos traernos 3 o 4 libros y alguna peli pero ahora nos volvemos a casa con al menos 10 libros para el. Es tan divertido leer libros que no sabes ni de que van. A veces son demasiado dificiles o muy largos o muy abstractos, pero a veces nos encantan, son divertidos, faciles de seguir e interesantes. En el cole, tambien tienen una biblioteca, y una vez por semana, van y cogen un libro para llevar a casa.Luca me dijo que habia traido un libro de "hacer cosas". Es un libro de manualidades usando cosas recicladas de casa. Ya le habia puesto el ojo a este tremendo castillo, y tenia a su tia para que le ayudase. Trabajaron duro todo el fin de semana, no salimos de casa en 2 dias, pero esto es lo que hicieron. Increible no?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6125796229/" title="Super handmade castle by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Super handmade castle" height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6125796229_f5e01e0305.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7951937718779874986?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7951937718779874986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7951937718779874986' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7951937718779874986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7951937718779874986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/castle.html' title='Castle'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6125796229_f5e01e0305_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-313689014723871256</id><published>2011-09-03T12:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-03T12:23:22.672-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Espejito espejito</title><content type='html'>I love to try new things, create new things, and of course I am most of the time to anxious to start a new project before I finish the ones I have started....I have been trying to finish up, and with some deadline, I have finished some things that I had around here. Of course, I keep on starting new things, so it is the never ending story. But this week, I finished something I started a week ago. It took me a while to figure out the details, but once I had it all measured and the back cut, then it was a matter of using the hot glue gun and putting it together. And the funnest part, spray painting it. Now I want to spray paint more things....here is my project, which I got from an idea in pinterest....really cool and easy to make. My new mirror!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Me encanta probar cosas nuevas, creas cosas nuevas, y por supuesto siempre estoy con ganas de empezar otra cosa cuando aun no he acabado con los proyectos en los que estoy trabajando...he estado tratando de acabar algunos y con algo de presion, he acabado algunas cositas que tenia por aqui. Claro que, como sigo empezando cosas nuevas, esto es la historia de nunca acabar. Pero esta semana acabe algo que empece la semana pasada. Me llevo algun tiempo decidi como iba a hacerlo, pero una vez que tenia las partes medidas , y cortadas, solo era cuestions de usar la pistola de pegamento caliente solo era cuestion de montarlo todo. Y lo mas divertido, pintarlo con pintura de spray. Ahora quiero pintar toda la casa asi...aqui esta el resultado, que saque la idea de pinterest...muy chulo y facil de hacer. Mi nuevo espejo!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6109707572/" title="#33 Proyecto verano. Espejito magico by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="#33 Proyecto verano. Espejito magico" height="413" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6199/6109707572_bc1725f8db.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6109159383/" title="casa by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="casa" height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6187/6109159383_1b54994fe5.jpg" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-313689014723871256?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/313689014723871256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=313689014723871256' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/313689014723871256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/313689014723871256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/09/espejito-espejito.html' title='Espejito espejito'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6199/6109707572_bc1725f8db_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4259711535329726430</id><published>2011-08-31T22:40:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-31T23:00:39.342-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The advantages of being deaf and wearing CIs</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp; Luca told me yesterday that he wished he could hear like me. He said this in part because I think he is learning to use the expression "I wish" and of course his mind has been going to places these days and has come to that conclusion. But to that I said "naaaaa!!!! don't you like your implants?" and he said "oh yes, yes, yes...I like them!". We talked about about how cool and useful his implants were and that was about the end of our conversation. I have been thinking about elaborating more about this with him, I don't want to just accept that he has to love his implants, which he naturally does, but I want him to understand all the advantages he has over people like me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Luca me dijo ayer que le gustaría poder escuchar como yo. Lo dijo en parte porque creo que está aprendiendo a usar la expresión "desearia" y, por supuesto, su mente ha estado divagando ultimamente y ha llegado a esa conclusión. Sin embargo, yo le dije "noooooo!! No te gustan tus implantes?" y él dijo "oh, sí, sí, sí ... me gustan!". Hemos hablado de lo chulos y útiles que son y eso fue el final de nuestra conversación. He pensado en elaborar más sobre este tema con él, no quiero que acepte sólo que le tienen que encantar sus implantes, que naturalmente le encantan, pero quiero que entienda todas las ventajas que tiene sobre la gente como yo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Today, while we were having dinner, I explained to him about our senses. About how we were able to perceive things. I told him to close his eyes and to tell me what things were. I made him touch a book, and flapped the pages, and he quickly guessed what it was. I explained that when we are lacking one sense, we make better use of the others. He definitely does, he is very intuitive, and has an amazing capacity to imagine how things are built, or how they would look in 3D and can guess what people want to express even without hearing a single word. He knows what I tell him in the bath when he can't hear me, he can read my expressions really well. Well, I said, you have all those abilities and on top of that, you can HEAR pretty well with your implants! So he is not missing much on what people are saying or what is happening hearing just environmental sounds. And of course, I didn't want to continue because he was getting bored, but I know that this is just the icing on the cake. Really he is fortunate for many other reasons as a consequence of his hearing loss. He has met wonderful people, hard working kids, hard working professionals, amazing role models. He has been exposed to the discipline of hard work at a very young age, and I see that as a&amp;nbsp;privilege, because later on, hopefully, working hard will be easier for him that he is used to it and feels it is just easy. He has had wonderful experiences, traveled all over the place, and he is able to sleep at night without any sound in the world to bother him. Overall, his hearing loss makes him a better person, more compassionate and smart. And of course I get some of those advantages along with him as we travel together in this amazing journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Hoy, mientras estábamos cenando, le expliqué acerca de nuestros sentidos. Acerca de cómo somos capaces de percibir las cosas. Le dije que cerrara los ojos y que me dijera lo que eran las cosas. Le hice que tocara un libro, y movi las páginas, y rápidamente adivinó lo que era. Le explique que cuando se carece de un sentido, se hace un mejor uso de los otros. Definitivamente el los tiene, es muy intuitivo, y tiene una asombrosa capacidad para imaginar cómo se construyen, o cómo se verían en 3D las cosas y puede adivinar lo que la gente quiere expresar, incluso sin oír una sola palabra. Él sabe lo que le digo en el baño cuando no me oye, puede leer mis expresiones muy bien. Bueno, le dije, tienes todas esas habilidades y encima de todo eso, puedes ESCUCHAR muy bien con tus implantes! No se pierde mucho de lo que la gente dice o de lo que está sucediendo  sólo con sonidos ambientales. Y, por supuesto, no quise seguir porque se estaba aburriendo, pero sé que esto es sólo la guinda del pastel. Realmente es afortunado por muchas otras razones, como consecuencia de su pérdida auditiva. Ha conocido a gente maravillosa, niños que trabajan duro, profesionales que trabajan duro, que modelos a seguir increibles. Ha estado expuesto a la disciplina del trabajo a una edad muy temprana, y lo veo como un privilegio, porque luego, con suerte, el trabajo duro será fácil para él que está acostumbrado a eso y sentira que es fácil. Ha tenido experiencias maravillosas, viajó por todas partes, y es capaz de dormir por la noche sin ningún tipo de ruido en el mundo que le molesta. En general, la pérdida auditiva le hace una mejor persona, más compasiva e inteligente. Y por supuesto, algunas de estas ventajas tambien las tengo yo, junto con él a medida que viajamos juntos en esta aventura increíble.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; And what is a life without challenges, I believe challenges just make it more interesting and enriching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Y que es la vida sin desafios. Yo creo que los desafios hacen la vida mas interesante y mas enriquecedora.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;And speaking about challenges.... I always make some if I don't naturally have them, and these past two weeks, I spent hours visiting stores looking for the right ingredients to make a healthy whole wheat bread. I read lots of things on the internet, and after a lot of planning and thinking (and money spent) I baked two loafs of healthy bread!!! I was so happy because even though the first one didn't come out of the pan without breaking apart, I have to say, they are quite fluffy and tasty! I have more ideas for the next time I try. But for now, I get my cereal bread in the morning with a big smile on my face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; Y hablando de desafios....siempre me pongo alguno si es que no lo tengo ya naturalmente, y en estas dos ultimas semanas, pase horas visitando tiendas buscando los ingredientes necesarios para hacer un pan saludable. Lei muchas cosas en internet, y despues de mucho planificar y pensar (y gastar dinero) hice dos panes muy ricos!!! Estaba tan contenta porque aunque el primero no salio enterito de su molde, he de decir, que salieron esponjositos y sabrosos!! Tengo mas ideas para la proxima vez que lo pruebe. Pero por ahora, desayuno mi pan de cerales por la manhana con una gran sonrisa en mi cara.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6101617303/" title="Cereal bread by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Cereal bread" height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6073/6101617303_2948aefdaa.jpg" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4259711535329726430?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4259711535329726430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4259711535329726430' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4259711535329726430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4259711535329726430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/08/advantages-of-being-deaf-and-wearing.html' title='The advantages of being deaf and wearing CIs'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6073/6101617303_2948aefdaa_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3025525318332620671</id><published>2011-08-28T23:59:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T00:23:26.678-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anniversary</title><content type='html'>All this week I have been reminding my friends and family about sharing the road, so that cyclist can ride in the road with cars without any harm. Today it has been 5 years since my husband was killed by someone driving motor-vehicle who crashed with him while he was safely riding his bike in the bike lane.  It is surreal to think that 5 years have passed, that he is no longer living, that we still miss him so much, that it's still so hard to think about what happened and about not having him in our lives. It is surreal to think about how fragile our lives are, and about how much we suffer when our time or our loved one's is up. In a way it feels good to feel sad, it's strange to say that, but reminds us how much the one missing was loved, how powerful that person was towards others and how meaningful the relationship was. It's an acknowledged sadness, a calm one. Melancholy maybe.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Toda la semana he estado recordando a mis amigos y familia que es importante compartir la carretera, para que los ciclistas puedan ir por la misma via que los coches sin danhos. Hoy hace 5 anhos desde que mi marido muriera porque fue atropellado por un coche que se choco con el mientras el iba seguro dando una vuelva en bici en el carril bici. Es increible pensar que han pasado 5 anhos, que no vive ya, que le echamos tanto de menos, que es aun tan dificil pensar en lo que paso y no tenerle en nuestras vidas. Es increible pensar en lo delicadas que son nuestras vidas, y pensar en cuanto sufrimos cuando se nos acaban los dias o a algun ser querido. En cierto modo ensta bien sentirse triste, es estranho decirlo, pero nos hace recordar cuando quisimos al que no esta, lo importante que fue esa persona hacia los demas y lo significativa que fue nuestra relacion. Es una tristeza reconocida, tranquila. Quizas sea melancolia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6091483769/" title="McNair 2003 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6091483769_e0fd45a28e.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="McNair 2003" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3025525318332620671?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3025525318332620671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3025525318332620671' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3025525318332620671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3025525318332620671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/08/anniversary.html' title='Anniversary'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6091483769_e0fd45a28e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2213533986635642770</id><published>2011-08-22T20:56:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T21:06:42.007-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And the day arrived...</title><content type='html'>And the day arrived...the day Luca asked me who was going to take his implants off so he can hear like me. I thought he had to be a bit older to come to this common conclusion in deaf children, but we talk so much about so many topics that he figured this one out pretty quick. I had to break the bad news, in a  good way, or at least I tried. I told him that he would ALWAYS have those COOL (his favorite word) implants, just like I need to wear glasses sometimes, and maybe if new ones come out he might have them too, who knows. He is always a happy camper and when he doesn't know what to say or is not the kind of answer he was hoping for, he changes the subject talks about something else. But he did mentioned that maybe his abuela might get a hearing aid and then they will be the same, he was excited to be like her, to belong to the abuela group. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y el dia llego...el dia que Luca me pregunto que quien le iba a quitar sus implantes para que pudiese oir como yo. Pense que tendria que ser algo mayor para llegar a esta conclusion comun entre ninhos sordos, pero hablamos tanto de todo que creo que ha averiguado esto pronto. Tuve que darle la mala noticia, de la mejor manera posible, o por lo menos lo intente. Le dije que el SIEMPRE tendria esos implantes tan CHULISIMOS (su palabra favorita), igual que yo a veces tengo que usar gafas, y quizas si unos nuevos salen al mercado pues puede que tambien los tenga, quien sabe. Siempre se conforma cuando no sabe que decir o le doy una respuesta que no es la deseada, cambia de tema y habla de otra cosa. Pero dijo que quizas su abuela se ponga un audifono y entonces seran iguales, estaba contento de ser igual que ella, de pertenecer al grupo de la abuela.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And this is the way he will conquer the world with his implants, just like superman, diving into life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y asi es como conquistara el mundo con sus implantes, como superman, sumergiendose de cabeza en la vida.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6030037458/" title="#31 Proyecto Verano. Tocando el agua by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/6030037458_0bab642389.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="#31 Proyecto Verano. Tocando el agua" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2213533986635642770?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2213533986635642770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2213533986635642770' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2213533986635642770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2213533986635642770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/08/and-day-arrived.html' title='And the day arrived...'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/6030037458_0bab642389_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-9138270900319188529</id><published>2011-08-19T20:54:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T21:10:04.781-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogging slacker</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;So it seems like I have really lazy around here. I feel proud that I have been able to do other important things in my life but a little bit of updating around here for all my friends , cyberfriends, and nice people who follow my blog would be nice. &lt;/div&gt;Luca is back to school. He is in primary school, which means the real thing, kindergarden. He is still at an oral school for the Deaf, because even though a lot of people think that he is doing so awesome that he would be ready for a mainstreamed school, the truth is, he is not. Only when you pay attention you realize that he would struggle with a lot of things still. But he is making great progress and he is getting great education, so what else can I hope for! He comes out of school and tells me everything about everything, which is great because I can have continuity and show much more interest on his things knowing what these are. More opportunities to learn at home. He was so tired after 2 days in school that he was hoping number 3 was a holiday, but that wasn't the case. Toady he had school too and by the time dinner time came around, he begged me to let him go to bed without dinner because he was soooo tired. Poor thing, his brain is going full speed!&lt;br /&gt;And I leave you here with a picture of him on his second day of school (because I forgot to immortalize day 1) and another picture of one of my creating over the summer. Since I don't have enough hobbies and plenty of space to keep my materials, I decided to start a new one. Necklaces! Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Por lo que parece estoy realmente perezoso por estos lares. Me siento orgullosa de haber sido capaz de hacer otras cosas importantes en mi vida, pero un poco de actualización por aquí para todos mis amigos, ciberamigos, y buena gente que sigue mi blog no estaria mal.&lt;br /&gt;Luca ha vuelto al cole. Esta en la escuela primaria, lo que significa ya parvulitos de 5 anhos. Todavía está en un colegio oral para ninhos sordos, ya que a pesar de que mucha gente piensa que está mejorando tan impresionantemente que estaría listo para integrarse a una escuela regular, pero la verdad es que no lo esta. Sólo cuando uno presta atención te das cuenta de que le costaría mucho todavía. Pero está progresando mucho y está recibiendo una gran educación, así que ¿qué más puedo esperar! Cuando sale del cole me lo cuenta todo acerca de todo, lo que esta muy bien porque así puede tener continuidad y yo puedo mostrar mucho más interés en sus cosas sabiendo cuáles son. Más oportunidades para aprender en casa. Estaba tan cansado después de dos días en el cole que estaba esperando que el día 3 fuera un día de fiesta, pero no fue el caso. Hoy hubo cole también y sobre la hora de la cena, me rogó que lo dejara ir a la cama sin cenar porque él estaba taaaan cansado. Pobrecito, su cerebro va a toda velocidad!&lt;br /&gt;Y os dejo aquí con una foto de él en su segundo día de cole (porque se me olvidó inmortalizar el día 1) y otra foto de una de mis creaciones durante el verano. Puesto que no tengo hobbis suficiente y un montón de espacio para guardar mis materiales, me decidí a empezar uno nuevo.... Collares! Disfrutad!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/6060773950/" title="Luca segundo dia de cole. by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6060773950_debfd209d8.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="Luca segundo dia de cole." /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5963230530/" title="#22 Proyecto Verano. Autoretrato by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5963230530_b27b27b71e.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="#22 Proyecto Verano. Autoretrato" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-9138270900319188529?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/9138270900319188529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=9138270900319188529' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/9138270900319188529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/9138270900319188529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogging-slacker.html' title='Blogging slacker'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6060773950_debfd209d8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2842081369926091175</id><published>2011-08-08T10:10:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T15:11:47.237-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Summer</title><content type='html'>Can you tell I've been busy? No time for anything. Still now I can't believe I found a moment of peace! We have been having fun with our family, getting spoiled, and for that, one needs to do nothing, that's what part of my summer has been. The other part is making up for all the rest and good relaxing times I got before ha! It is fun to be with my nieces and sister but it is exhausting! Well, I have to say, I think we get better and better at this as years go by and we appreciate more and more what my mom and aunt did raising so many kids.&lt;br /&gt;I have enjoyed some time at a farm and that was a different experience for both Luca and I. I have also seen lots of friends and it has been good. Luca is reaching the point of wanting just his regular normal life, but then, one he gets it, he will be missing all of this. We better enjoy it while it lasts because it's going to be over very soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Se nota que he estado ocupada? No me da tiempo a nada. Aun no me creo que tenga un ratito de paz! Hemos estado pasandolo bien con nuestra familia, que nos han mimado, y por eso, no he hecho nada, y asi ha sido parte de mi verano. La otra parte esta compensando por todos esos dias de descanso y relax que tuve ja! Nos encanta estar con mis sobris y hermana pero estamos agotados! Bueno, la verdad, es que creo que mejoramos con los anhos y somo mas eficientes y aprediamos mas a mi madre y tia que criaron a tantos ninhos juntos.&lt;br /&gt;Hemos pasado un tiempo en una granja y esa ha sido una experiencia diferente para los dos. Tambien hemos visto a muchos amigos y ha estado bien. Luca ya se esta cansando y quiere su rutina, pero cuando la tenga, echara todo esto de menos. Mas vale que lo disfrutemos mientras dure porque sera por poco tiempo!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Casita de la pradera by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5998205106/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Casita de la pradera" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/5998205106_7d3eff07a7.jpg" width="500" height="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a title="Casita de la pradera by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5998205106/"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="#29 Proyecto Verano. Zinnia by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5998205090/"&gt;&lt;img alt="#29 Proyecto Verano. Zinnia" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6145/5998205090_d947649e42.jpg" width="500" height="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a title="#29 Proyecto Verano. Zinnia by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5998205090/"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="#27 Proyecto de Verano. Noche by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5996236384/"&gt;&lt;img alt="#27 Proyecto de Verano. Noche" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6005/5996236384_bf564b6d21.jpg" width="332" height="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a title="#27 Proyecto de Verano. Noche by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5996236384/"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="#26. Proyecto Verano. Vistas by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5983232412/"&gt;&lt;img alt="#26. Proyecto Verano. Vistas" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5983232412_62a194943f.jpg" width="500" height="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a title="#26. Proyecto Verano. Vistas by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5983232412/"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2842081369926091175?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2842081369926091175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2842081369926091175' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2842081369926091175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2842081369926091175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/08/summer.html' title='Summer'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/5998205106_7d3eff07a7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2350271898962870119</id><published>2011-07-12T23:27:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T23:29:55.993-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Headbands</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I like making headbands. They are easy and quick to make. The tricky part is deciding the design and the fabric...but once you have it....it is a piece of cake! These are the new ones, Luca gave them as a present to his friend from school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me gusta hacer diademas. Son faciles y rapidas de hacer. Lo unico complicado es decidi el disenho y la tela....pero una vez lo sabes...esta chupao! Estas son las nuevas, Luca se las regalo a una amiguita del cole.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5932781814/" title="#14 Proyecto Verano. Diadema by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5932781814_42b28a199c.jpg" width="500" height="365" alt="#14 Proyecto Verano. Diadema" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5932226447/" title="diadema by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6136/5932226447_76641bb780.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="diadema" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2350271898962870119?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2350271898962870119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2350271898962870119' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2350271898962870119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2350271898962870119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/07/headbands.html' title='Headbands'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/5932781814_42b28a199c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3689030540914736718</id><published>2011-07-10T22:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T22:19:05.487-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Swimmer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Now that it is already so hot and we have several pools available, we've been enjoying going to them. Luca still doesn't swim by himself when he cannot touch the bottom of the pool, he gets nervous and starts swallowing water. But he can actually swim when he feels comfortable that he can touch the floor. I hope he can soon learn, so I can worry a bit less when we are at the pool. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I like this picture of him, all wet and shiny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ahora que hace tanto calor y que tenemos varias piscinas a nuestra disposicion, hemos estado disfrutando de ellas. Luca aun no nada independientemente cuando no toca el suelo de la piscina, se pone nervioso y empieza a tragar agua. Pero la verdad es que si que sabe nadar un poco cuando esta comodo y sabe que puede pisar. Espero que aprenda pronto, para que me tenga que preocupar un poco menos cuando estamos en la piscina. Me gusta esta foto suya, todo mojado y brillante. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5924952826/" title="my favorite swimmer by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5924952826_a19c485e34.jpg" width="500" height="384" alt="my favorite swimmer" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3689030540914736718?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3689030540914736718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3689030540914736718' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3689030540914736718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3689030540914736718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/07/swimmer.html' title='Swimmer'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5924952826_a19c485e34_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2994944936934438898</id><published>2011-07-07T23:01:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-07T23:04:19.290-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Elegant babies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The other day I went for a walk around shops that were selling handmade products and I just wanted to start sewing! I got inspired! as a result, I made these 3 things, and I'm not stopping!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;El otro dia me fui de paseo por unsa tiendas donde habia articulos hechos a mano y me entro el gusanillo de ponerme a coser! me inspire! como resultado, hice estas tres cosas, y no paro!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5914553828/" title="escamas by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5914553828_ea12b57694.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="escamas" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5914554310/" title="flor by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5160/5914554310_e71ae8c097.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="flor" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5914553038/" title="pajarita by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/5914553038_3ed3046bdd.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="pajarita" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2994944936934438898?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2994944936934438898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2994944936934438898' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2994944936934438898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2994944936934438898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/07/elegant-babies.html' title='Elegant babies'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5914553828_ea12b57694_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2876669106338394524</id><published>2011-07-04T11:58:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T12:06:14.025-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sewing</title><content type='html'>I have been sewing lately; I have so many projects around my desk, unfinished or ideas hanging around...that I decide it is time to organize and sew. I started organizing my fabrics, they were all in the wrong places plus I had forgotten how many I have. It is good to take them out and look at them once in a while. I have also started creating a new bag. A friend lend me her bag so I could make one like it, and it proved quite easy. Although as I was putting it together I really didn't know how was I going to make it so that you could hardly see the last seam. Well, I just did it, and it turned out quite cute. I have cut two others that I plant to sew one of these days...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;He estado cosiendo ultimamente; tengo tantos proyectos por mi escritorio, sin acabar, o ideas que me pasan por la cabeza...que he decidido que es hora de organizar y coser. Empeze por organizar mis telas, estaban todas puestas en lugares qeu no correspondian y ademas se me habia olvidado que tenia tantas. Esta bien sacarlas y verlas de vez en cuando,. Tambien he empezado a crear un boldo nuevo. Una amiga me presto el suyo para que hiciera uno asi, y la verdad es que salio facil. Aunque mientras lo montaba no sabia muy bien como lo iba a acabar y donde iba a cerrarlo. Bueno, al final lo hice, y salio mono. Tengo otros dos cortados y los pienso coser uno de estos dias...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5884533537/" title="#3 Proyecto Verano. Rincon de costura. by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5308/5884533537_fbe8376638.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="#3 Proyecto Verano. Rincon de costura." /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5901665160/" title="#7 Proyecto verano. Bolsa by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5232/5901665160_1483f3d76d.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="#7 Proyecto verano. Bolsa" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I have also been quilting Luca's new quilt...it's looking good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tambien he estado haciendo el acolchado de la colcha nueva de Luca..me esta quedano chuli...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2876669106338394524?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2876669106338394524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2876669106338394524' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2876669106338394524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2876669106338394524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/07/sewing.html' title='Sewing'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5308/5884533537_fbe8376638_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7558065192447931859</id><published>2011-07-03T11:04:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-03T11:11:19.689-05:00</updated><title type='text'>501</title><content type='html'>501, that's how many posts I have posted so far! wow, so many years of doing this...and how much longer to go? who knows? I guess as long as I have time and things to talk about. I have lots of things going on these days. Photography, that has kept me busy and keeps on being something I like to do...I have been learning tricks, or rather, playing with photo editing and photos I took. I have been trying to convert regular pictures into model looking images. This is my first attempt. I didn't even do it the way I was supposed to because I didn't have the tools for it, but I made an attempt with what I had. I hope you also think it kindda looks like a model image...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;501, esas son las veces que he escrito en esta ventana de momento! guau, cuantos anhos haciendolo...y hasta cuando? quien sabe? Supongo que hasta que deje de tener tiempo y cosas de que hablar. Pasan muchas cosas por mi vida. La fotografia, eso me mantiene ocupada y es algo que me encanta hacer...he estado aprendiendo a hacer trucos, o mas bien, jugando con edicion de fotos que hice. He estado intentando convertir fotos normales en fotos que parezcan maquetas. Este es mi primer intento. No lo hice como debia porque no tenia las herramientas adecuadas, pero lo intente con lo que tenia. Espero que tambien penseis que se parece un poco a una maqueta...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5889445309/" title="miniature baseball field by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5231/5889445309_dcb0bd3be3.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="miniature baseball field" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7558065192447931859?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7558065192447931859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7558065192447931859' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7558065192447931859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7558065192447931859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/07/501.html' title='501'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5231/5889445309_dcb0bd3be3_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7052563421245003731</id><published>2011-07-01T10:43:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-01T21:49:09.770-05:00</updated><title type='text'>4th of July</title><content type='html'>Now that I am an American, and the 4th of July is around the corner, what an opportunity to celebrate my newly adopted citizenship with the red, white and blue colors!! Luca did his part at school, they were so cute...yelling "red white and blue!".  Now it's my turn, lake party, fireworks, concert...a packed weekend ahead! Happy 4th of July!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ahora que soy Americana, y el 4 de Julio esta a la vuelta de la esquina, que oportunidad para celebrar mi nueva nacionalidad reciend adoptada con los colores rojo, blanco y azul!!! Luca hizo su parte en el cole, tan graciosos...gritando " rojo, blanco y azul!". Ahora me toca a mi, fiesta en el lago, fuegos artificiales, concierto...un fin de semana lleno de actividades! Feliz dia de la Independencia Americana!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5892301071/" title="Red white blue! by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5232/5892301071_a0d0973fbc.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="Red white blue!" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5892301515/" title="marching by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5072/5892301515_0505b1321e.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="marching" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5889186539/" title="#5 Proyecto Verano. Cuatro de Julio by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5889186539_f87c05a8e6.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="#5 Proyecto Verano. Cuatro de Julio" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7052563421245003731?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7052563421245003731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7052563421245003731' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7052563421245003731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7052563421245003731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/07/4th-of-july.html' title='4th of July'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5232/5892301071_a0d0973fbc_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6661041930939261319</id><published>2011-06-26T10:54:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-26T11:06:08.105-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Crepes</title><content type='html'>The other day there was an open house in a cooking school around here. I drive by their building everyday when I take Luca to school. I see the chefs and students walking out of the building so often and I always wondered what it looked like inside. Not only did we get to see the whole facility but we also got a chance to learn to cook a couple of things. I had made crepes in the past, but couldn't remember the recipe anymore, so I was glad to know that we were going to try and also that we were getting their recipe. I made them today at home...mmm...they were good. Too bad Luca only eats one, cause I had 5 and there are 3 more left...and I only prepared half the recipe! I will have more crepes for breakfast another day I guess!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;El otro dia habia un dia de puertas abiertas en una escuela de cocina de por aqui. Paso por delante de ese edificio todos los dias cuando llevo a Luca al cole. Veo a los cocineros saliendo y caminando por fuera del edificio y siempre me pregunto como sera por dentro. No solo pudimos hacer un tour de todo el edificio sino que ademas nos ensenharon a cocinar algunas cosas. Yo ya habia hecho crepes hace anhos, pero no me acordaba de la receta, asi que me alegre de que nos ensenhara y de que nos pasaran la receta. Los hice hoy en casa...mmm...que ricos. Que pena que Luca solo se coma uno porque yo me zampe 5 y hay 3 mas que sobraron...y eso que solo prepare media receta! Creo que tendre mas crepes para desayunar otro dia!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5872831503/" title="crepes by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/5872831503_52ca155b47.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="crepes" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recipe:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 oz cake flour (used all purpose)&lt;br /&gt;8 fluid ounces of milk&lt;br /&gt;2 whole eggs&lt;br /&gt;1 fluid oz clarified butter (used regular)&lt;br /&gt;1 Tb sugar&lt;br /&gt;1/2 ts salt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mix well, strain and then pour a small ladle in a non stick pan. Cook until it loosens and then turn and turn once more until lightly brown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Receta (1 onza = 30 mL o 30 mg)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 onzas harina&lt;br /&gt;8 onzas de leche&lt;br /&gt;2 huevos&lt;br /&gt;1 onza de mantequilla clarificada (use la regular)&lt;br /&gt;1 cuharada sopera azucar&lt;br /&gt;1 cucharadita sal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mezclar bien, colar y poner una cucharada de servir pequenha en una sateen de teflon. Cocinar hasta que se mueva y dar vuelta y volver a cocinar del primer lado hasta que se dore.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6661041930939261319?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6661041930939261319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6661041930939261319' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6661041930939261319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6661041930939261319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/06/crepes.html' title='Crepes'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/5872831503_52ca155b47_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1624040893855914031</id><published>2011-06-24T21:44:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-24T22:21:44.748-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ciudadana</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5867923487/" title="americana by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/5867923487_28770406af.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="americana" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1624040893855914031?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1624040893855914031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1624040893855914031' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1624040893855914031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1624040893855914031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/06/ciudadana.html' title='Ciudadana'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/5867923487_28770406af_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4989501599317678027</id><published>2011-06-21T23:05:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T00:07:45.308-05:00</updated><title type='text'>rumbo</title><content type='html'>I feel I have been lazy about writing, about doing a lot of other things. I really have just been relaxed. I got to visit a lot of good old friends, and the time spent there with them, made me feel that I was back at home, that I still have a lot of good friends in one place, and that there are lots of wonderful people around the world that I miss. That trip made me go back to a more laid back moment of my life, and relaxing with people that feel that everything is great and that make you feel like at home, made me lose my perspective of my regular life for a little bit. It is a strange feeling, but it happens. You realize things about your present life that you knew but didn't really pay much attention to before. I am happy with my life, but sometimes is good to have a check point and make slight adjustments to it to continue going the way you really deep inside of you want to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Siento que estoy un poco perezosa ultimamente escribiendo, y haciendo muchas otras cosas. La verdad es que he estado relajada. He ido a visitar muchos viejos amigos, y el tiempo que he pasado con ellos, me ha hecho sentir que estaba de vuelta en casa, que aun tengo muchos buenos amigos en un lugar en concreto, y que hay muchisma gente maravillosa repartida por el mundo a los que echo de menos. Ese viaje me ha hecho volver a un estado mas sencillo de mi vida, y relajandome con la gente a los que todo les parece bien y que me han hecho sentirme en casa, ha hecho que pierda un poco la perspectiva de mi vida cotidiana. Es una cosa rara, pero pasa. Te das cuenta de cosas de tuvida actual que ya sabias pero a las que no habias prestado mucha atencion. Estoy contenta con mi vida, pero a veces es bueno tener un punto de referencia para hacer unos pequenhos ajustes a la vida y para poder seguir yendo por el camino que realmente quieres tomar desde dentro de ti.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also spent a few days with Luca's best friend, his aunt. We went to our now proclaimed annual camping trip, and enjoyed spending the night in a tent at a campsite (not so much), and going down the river with a raft, making fires, cooking, getting rained on, and catching bugs and fish. I felt great when I took a shower at home, like Luca likes to put it, he and his aunt like cool stuff, and I like pretty stuff. To which I disagree, but who am I to disagree with what's in his creative mind. I did have a great time with my two camping partners and hope to repeat again next year. Thanks J for bringing coolness to our lives!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tambien pasamos unos dias con la mejor amiga de Luca, su tia. Fuimos en la ya proclamada acampada del anho, y disfrutamos pasando la noche en una tienda de campanha (no tanto), y bajando el rio en una lanchita hinchable, haciendo fuegos, cocinando, mojandonos bajo la lluvia, y cazando insectos y peces. Me senti muy bien cuando llegue a csa y me pegue una duchita, como Luca dice, a el y a su tia le gustan las cosas chulas y a mi lo bonito. Con lo que no estoy de acuerdo, pero quien soy yo para llevarle la contraria con toda esa mente creativa que tiene. La verdad es que me lo pase super bien y espero repetir el anho que viene de nuevo. Gracias J por traernos lo chulo a nuestras vidas!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5858647113/" title="the miner by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/5858647113_d20d287662.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="the miner" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5859200876/" title="chilling by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/5859200876_ed685e31ae.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="chilling" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5859203024/" title="in the tent by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5026/5859203024_a6d6ca0c48.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="in the tent" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5859203596/" title="where are they?? by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/5859203596_e5ee5e9f2d.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="where are they??" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5859205222/" title="whatup?? by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5236/5859205222_9947f0674c.jpg" width="500" height="358" alt="whatup??" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5859206188/" title="catching lightning bugs by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5859206188_01e24cb822.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="catching lightning bugs" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5858653563/" title="walking by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/5858653563_4b90edd985.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="walking" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5858654715/" title="jumping by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/5858654715_ba81b62a31.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="jumping" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4989501599317678027?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4989501599317678027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4989501599317678027' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4989501599317678027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4989501599317678027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/06/rumbo.html' title='rumbo'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/5858647113_d20d287662_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5904062365691659169</id><published>2011-06-13T19:22:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-13T21:31:29.176-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Photography</title><content type='html'>I have enjoyed and learned a lot about photography in the past few weeks. I took two online courses that really made me try to control my camera and shoot many many pictures and learn in the process. Not that I am a great photographer now, but I do pay attention to things that before I didn't, and I also have a better appreciation for composition of pictures. I even look at things with a frame in my mind, I imagine a tree or a landscape through the visor of my camera...and of course what mami does, Luca does..so here he is taking pictures of me while I type this...with his tripod, his digital camera and setting the timer...it is funny to see him doing this things, and it gives me hope that he will be a better photographer than his mother at a much younger age. Here are some of the shots he took today...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;He disfrutado y aprendido mucho sobre fotografia en las ultimas semanas. Hice dos cursos de fotografia online que me hicieron intentar controlar mi camara y tomar muchas fotos y aprender de paso. No es que ahora sea un gran fotografo, pero por lo menos presto atencion a las cosas que antes no lo hacia, y tambien aprecio mas la composicion de las fotos. Incluso miro a las cosas con un marco en mi imaginacion, me imagino los arboles o un paisaje por el visor de mi camara..y claro lo que hace mami, tambien lo hace Luca...asi que esta tomando fotos mias mientras escribo esto...con su tripode, su camara digital y poniendo su temporizador..da risa verle haciendo estas cosas, y me da esperanza de que algun dia sera mejor fotografo que su madre y cuando sea aun mucho mas joven que yo. Aqui van algunas fotos que hizo hoy...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5830749281/" title="Luca mi fotografo by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/5830749281_f91c975ea1_z.jpg" width="640" height="360" alt="Luca mi fotografo" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5904062365691659169?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5904062365691659169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5904062365691659169' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5904062365691659169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5904062365691659169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/06/photography.html' title='Photography'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/5830749281_f91c975ea1_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2383438046053568138</id><published>2011-05-19T11:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-19T11:21:00.208-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Can I be your friend?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.onetruemedia.com/share_view_player?p=dfdd5ba81dd3d28fe183e1" quality="high" scale="noscale" width="408" height="382" wmode="transparent" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT" flashvars="&amp;amp;p=dfdd5ba81dd3d28fe183e1&amp;amp;skin_id=701&amp;amp;host=http://www.onetruemedia.com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin:0px;font:12px/13px verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px;padding-bottom:15px;width:408px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onetruemedia.com/landing?&amp;amp;utm_source=emplay&amp;amp;utm_medium=txt4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;"&gt;Make an on-line slideshow at &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;www.OneTrueMedia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2383438046053568138?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2383438046053568138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2383438046053568138' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2383438046053568138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2383438046053568138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/can-i-be-your-friend.html' title='Can I be your friend?'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8062160143876081175</id><published>2011-05-17T23:20:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T23:42:38.060-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Three ballons</title><content type='html'>Today we had a celebration. It would have been number 39. Orange, ginkgo tree, balloons and cupcakes.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoy tuvimos una celebracion. Hubiera sido numero 39. Naranja, ginko, globos y pasteles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732692720/" title="one card by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/5732692720_4d1399bbe6.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="one card" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732145771/" title="two cards by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5205/5732145771_a721a36c65.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="two cards" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732690556/" title="Three cards: batman by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5263/5732690556_19527e80e9.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="Three cards: batman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732143569/" title="So you know... by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5189/5732143569_6f14e1ede6.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="So you know..." /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732142777/" title="ready to launch by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5732142777_ba486a44b4.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="ready to launch" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732147497/" title="hold them by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/5732147497_d528ffe8cf.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="hold them" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732694424/" title="balloons traveling by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2189/5732694424_1102d1cc0f.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="balloons traveling" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732697530/" title="bye balloons by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/5732697530_ed0f295af0.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="bye balloons" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5732696666/" title="playing by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5732696666_7612770873.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="playing" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8062160143876081175?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/8062160143876081175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=8062160143876081175' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8062160143876081175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8062160143876081175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/three-ballons.html' title='Three ballons'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/5732692720_4d1399bbe6_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5931756291195679045</id><published>2011-05-16T13:52:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-16T14:05:32.311-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Batman</title><content type='html'>My son is totally obsessed with Batman. He could have batman everything if it were his own choice. I am contributing to his obsession by making him a batman quilt. He has designed the front, but I take care of the back. I have advanced a lot in it but then stopped for a while (maybe the photography is taking over??). I hope I can get back to finishing it before it is too hot to bear it!&lt;div&gt;This is the embroidery I am going to put in the back...his own drawing and my embroidery. I love the drawing, he has made it so many times that I believe he could make it with his eyes closed...I had to immortalize it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mi hijo esta obsesionado con Batman. Podria tener todo con batman si fuera su propia decision. Yo estoy contribuyendo a su obsesion haciendole una colcha de Batman. El disenho la parte de alante, pero yo me ocupo de la de atras. He avanzado mucho pero de pronto me pare (sera la fotografia que me tiene ocupada??). Espero volver a ponerme y acabarla antes de que haga demasiado calor para usarla!.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Este es el bordaod que le voy a poner por detras...su propio dibujo y mi bordado. Me encanta este dibujo, lo ha hecho tantas veces que creo que lo podria dibujar con los ojos cerrados...tenia que inmortalizarlo!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5727041085/" title="polvoron de limon by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5061/5727041085_ba2fa4ba43.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="polvoron de limon" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5931756291195679045?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5931756291195679045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5931756291195679045' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5931756291195679045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5931756291195679045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/batman.html' title='Batman'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5061/5727041085_ba2fa4ba43_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3215280695514643245</id><published>2011-05-15T10:40:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T10:40:00.652-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Night pictures</title><content type='html'>Now experimenting in a dark black pitch night. Unbelievable!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ahora experimentando en una noche oscurisima. Increible!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5721093926/" title="car lights at night by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/5721093926_7e0ce27cdb.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="car lights at night" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5721092518/" title="rain and car lights at night by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2339/5721092518_da40a4fd0e.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="rain and car lights at night" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3215280695514643245?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3215280695514643245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3215280695514643245' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3215280695514643245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3215280695514643245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/night-pictures.html' title='Night pictures'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/5721093926_7e0ce27cdb_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2306106314508672449</id><published>2011-05-14T11:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-14T11:49:59.887-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Crazy weeks</title><content type='html'>This week is ending very fast and crazy. Today we spent the day at the zoo with Luca's school. It was a wonderful day and the kid loved the animals. It is fun to see how much more involved and interested they are at this age. I remember the time I took Luca to the zoo when he wasn't yet 3 and the most interesting thing for him to do was to jump from some rocks down to the floor, he couldn't care less about the animals. Now he was describing all about sting rays and elephants and zebras and giraffes. Lots of fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Esta semana esta acabando muy rapidamente y es una locura. Hoy me pase el dia en el zoologico con el cole de Luca. Fue un dia precioso y los ninhos disfrutaron de los animales. Que bueno ver como se involucran mucho mas y estan mas interesados en esta edad. Me acuerdo cuando lleve a Luca al zoologico cuando aun no tenia ni 3 anhos y lo mas interesante para el era saltar de una piedra al suelo, no le interesaban lo mas minimo los animales. Ahora estuvo describiendo todo sobre las rayas y los elefantes y las zebras y las girafas. Que divertido.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am taking two photography classes this week. And on top of that, I have a million things more to do and I hope to get through this week in one piece! for now I would just like to share the photos I have been taking, the things I have been learning with &lt;a href="http://casienserio.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jackie&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.atelierjackierueda.com/"&gt;L'atelier&lt;/a&gt;...amazing what one can learn in such a short period of time! It is true, there is a before and after &lt;a href="http://www.atelierjackierueda.com/"&gt;L'atelier&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Estoy haciendo dos cursos de fotografia esta semana. Y encima, tengo un millon de cosas mas que hacer y espero pasar la semana de una pieza! por ahora os ensenho las fotos que he tomado en estos dias, las cosas que he aprendido con &lt;a href="http://casienserio.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jackie&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://www.atelierjackierueda.com/"&gt;L'atelier&lt;/a&gt;...increible lo que uno puede aprender en tan poco tiempo! Es verdad, hay un antes y un despues tras &lt;a href="http://www.atelierjackierueda.com/"&gt;L'atelier&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5719045334/" title="basket by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/5719045334_6db6c4bcfa_z.jpg" width="640" height="449" alt="basket" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5719044458/" title="laugh by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3609/5719044458_0e468de9c5_z.jpg" width="640" height="425" alt="laugh" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5719043222/" title="kite by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/5719043222_6d0ce94c61_z.jpg" width="640" height="425" alt="kite" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5705954970/" title="Un fantasma oliendo una flor by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3587/5705954970_876e7bf9e8_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="Un fantasma oliendo una flor" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5705748572/" title="lamp by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/5705748572_6b5401130f_z.jpg" width="425" height="640" alt="lamp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5719322944/" title="manguera by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2691/5719322944_f928545eea_z.jpg" width="640" height="425" alt="manguera" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5705747122/" title="fachada by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2339/5705747122_46d681a3e0_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="fachada" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5704142884/" title="Cruce de patitos by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/5704142884_31953b3237_z.jpg" width="640" height="425" alt="Cruce de patitos" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5701900201/" title="Periodicos by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/5701900201_27327bcca6_z.jpg" width="640" height="399" alt="Periodicos" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5718490191/" title="hearts by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/5718490191_b9a474225e_z.jpg" width="640" height="425" alt="hearts" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5719048134/" title="night by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/5719048134_c0fd6ce735_z.jpg" width="640" height="425" alt="night" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2306106314508672449?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/5719045334_6db6c4bcfa_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7986067045447074386</id><published>2011-05-06T23:22:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-08T22:55:48.812-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Swimming</title><content type='html'>Luca is swimming. He loves going to swimming lesson. He likes it better than when he was younger. The same happened with basketball and soccer. I think as he gets older he is enjoying sports a bit more. Of course, I took my camera to the pool and while I watched him, I also took pictures of him and played around with my camera and its manual and, not that I quite know what I am doing, but hopefully, I am learning some.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luca esta nadando. Le encantan las clases de natacion. Le gusta mas que cuando era mas pequenho. Lo mismo le paso con baloncesto y futbol. Creo que segun crece disfruta mas de los deportes. Por supuesto, me lleve mi camara a la piscina y mientras le veia, tambien tomaba fotos de el y jugaba con mi camara y con el manual, y no es que sepa lo que estoy haciendo, pero esperemos que aprenda algo poco a poco.&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5691786271/" title="En la piscina by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5301/5691786271_fe24b19ab5_z.jpg" width="425" height="640" alt="En la piscina"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I captured a tiny jump accidentally in this picture. I like how it came out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le hice una foto pegando un saltito de casualidad. Me gusta como quedo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5692356198/" title="salto by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5026/5692356198_f66a32959e_z.jpg" width="425" height="640" alt="salto"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also got the conference about Luca's achievements this week. He is doing great, progressing nicely, he is at the level where he should be academically, and pretty much all of his goals have been reached. In terms of language he made a very nice progress and more is expected shortly, but the only thing that I was told that I didn't expect was that he has a little bit more trouble than most kids learning articulation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tambien tuve la reunion sobre los avances de Luca con las profesoras esta semana. Va muy bien, avanzando muy bien, esta al nivel que deberia estar academicamente, y casi todos sus metas han sido conseguidas. En cuanto al lenguaje ha progresado muy bien y esperamos que sea mayor aun en poco tiempo, pero lo unico que me dijeron que no me esperaba era que tiene mas problema de lo normal para aprender a articular.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently he has something, that makes him have some trouble getting long words or long sentences pronounced properly. He has trouble getting his brain to make the motor part of the mouth to work how it should. He used to mumble and not move his lips at all. And as the therapists were telling me all of this, it hit me, I had the same thing. When I was little I was like that, I had trouble pronouncing things, I thought I was being lazy...I even had low muscle tone all over my body and needed therapy and lots of exercise to grow out of it. And I did. It seems like Luca only has this problem in his mouth, related to speech (although that might also be the reason why he can't shoot the ball in basketball and why he hasn't been that crazy about sports). It will take him longer than others, it will take more work on his part and on mine, but we will overcome this one too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aparentemente tiene algo, que hace le cueste pronunciar las palabras largas adecuadamente. Tiene problemas con que su cerebro sea capaz de hacer que la parte motora de la boca funcione adecuadamente. Solia hablar sin mover los labios. Y mientras las logopedas me contaban todo esto, me di cuenta, que yo tenia lo mismo. Cuando yo era pequenha, tenia problema pronunciando las cosas, pensaba que era perezosa...incluso tenia flacidez muscular en todo mi cuerpo y necesitaba terapia y mucho ejercicio para superarlo. Y lo hice. Parece que a Luca solo le afecta al habla, a la articulacion (aunque quizas por eso tampoco puede tirar la pelota a la canasta en baloncesto y no le han emocionado mucho los deportes). Le va a costar mas que a otros, va a necesitar ms trabajo que otros ninhos y por mi parte tambien, pero esto tambien lo superaremos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7986067045447074386?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7986067045447074386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7986067045447074386' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7986067045447074386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7986067045447074386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/swimming.html' title='Swimming'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5301/5691786271_fe24b19ab5_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5838873521653139718</id><published>2011-05-06T09:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T09:59:00.520-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blanco y negro</title><content type='html'>And this is just an experiment editing a picture of Luca, ready for bed, in black and white. I still don't know how to edit very well, but hopefully I will learn more as I play with my pictures some more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y este es un experimento editando una foto de Luca, listo para irse a dormir, en blanco y negro. Aun no se como editar muy bien, pero esperemos que aprenda mas mientras juego con mis fotos un poco mas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5685574703/" title="BW luca2 by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/5685574703_1bd17d40af_z.jpg" width="427" height="640" alt="BW luca2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5838873521653139718?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5838873521653139718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5838873521653139718' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5838873521653139718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5838873521653139718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/blanco-y-negro.html' title='Blanco y negro'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/5685574703_1bd17d40af_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3526320935701105859</id><published>2011-05-03T13:33:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-04T17:17:50.021-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Who will be my model?</title><content type='html'>I have warned everybody that I am in the photo taking mode so beware of me and my camera!&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday the day was sunny and beautiful and we went to the park and took a few shots of Luca and his friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;He avisado a todo el mundo de que estoy con ganas de hacer fotos, asi que esten al tanto de mi camara!&lt;br /&gt;Ayer hacia un dia soleado y espectacular asi que fuimos al parque y le hice unas fotos a Luca y a sus amigos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5685576011/" title="Luca wall by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5246/5685576011_bc32496e45.jpg" width="500" height="356" alt="Luca wall" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5686173342/" title="El gran salto by dozodozo (Carmen), on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5686173342_6ca655408d.jpg" width="500" height="310" alt="El gran salto" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3526320935701105859?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3526320935701105859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3526320935701105859' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3526320935701105859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3526320935701105859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-will-be-my-model.html' title='Who will be my model?'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5246/5685576011_bc32496e45_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-547143116544523844</id><published>2011-05-02T13:23:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T20:06:57.421-05:00</updated><title type='text'>First experiments</title><content type='html'>These have been some of the pictures I have been taking of Luca to try to figure out my camera for the first week of my photography class. It was not easy to do this, specially with Luca as my model, but I think some of the hundreds I took look good although, I would still change things in all of them. At least I have to say that I was able to use my camera in semi manual mode, controlling the aperture by myself instead of all auto like I used to....&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Estas son algunas de las fotos que he tomado de Luca mientras intento averiguar ocmo usar mi camara en la primera semana de mi clase. No fue facil, sobretodo con Luca como modelo, pero de los cientos de fotos que tome, alguna no esta mal, aunque yo cambiaria cosas en ellas. Por lo menos puedo decir que he sido capaz de usar la camara en modo semi manual, controlando el diafragma en lugar de ponerlo todo en automatico...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5680963792/" title="In the yard by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5680963792_0c904a5cf7.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="In the yard" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5680404195/" title="Luca's eyes by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5182/5680404195_2961e6f074.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="Luca's eyes" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5680968270/" title="Indoors by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5680968270_15b51621b9.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="Indoors" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And about Luca's world, I just meet a girl who is also deaf and just uses a hearing aid in one ear and has no hearing in the other and she spoke beautifully, having learned sign language first, then English at 7 and Spanish at 13. It blew my mind and made me realize once and again that the sky is the limit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y en el mundo de Luca, justo conoci una chica que es sorda y usa un audifono en una oreja y nada en la otra que no tiene nada de audicion y hablaba perfecto, y aprendio a hablar con senhas primero y luego aprendio ingles a los 7 anhos y espanhol a los 13. Alucine y me hizo darme cuenta de que el ser humano puede llegar hasta donde quiera.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-547143116544523844?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/547143116544523844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=547143116544523844' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/547143116544523844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/547143116544523844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/05/first-experiments.html' title='First experiments'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5680963792_0c904a5cf7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-996778417555341412</id><published>2011-04-30T15:09:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T23:50:10.700-06:00</updated><title type='text'>And the photography class has started!!</title><content type='html'>Will I be able to make photographs with some sense of direction?? That is what I am hoping for. As for now, I am already reading through the manual, which I always dread to do, but it is really important if I want to get the most out of my camera...&lt;br /&gt;The photography course online has started and I am going crazy reading stuff, taking pictures and thinking about what I see...it is so exciting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sere capaz de hacer fotos con algun sentido de rumbo? Eso es lo qu eespero. Por ahora, estoy leyendome el manual de la camara, que siempre lo evito, pero que es muy importante si quiero sacar el maximo de mi camara...&lt;br /&gt;El curso de fotografia online ha comenzado y estoy volviendome loca leyendo cosas, tomando fotos y pensando en lo que veo...que emocion!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But today I am posting about a dish I made today. I used stuff I had opened already a few days back and it turned out delicious! I was so proud of myself for cleaning up my fridge with such a yummy dish! It was a leek and onion tart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pero hoy estoy escribiendo sobre un plato que hice hoy. Use cosas que ya habia abiertohace unos dias y me salio riquisimo! Estaba tan orgullosa de haber limpiado mi nevera y haber hecho algo tan delicioso! Hice una tartaleta de puerros y cebolla.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cooked in some margarine 2 leeks and 1 onion until soft.&lt;br /&gt;Then I beat 4 eggs and mixed them with half a cup of evaporated milk, about 1/4 of a cup of sour cream, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, and about 10 oz of grated swiss cheese. I then added the leeks and onion. I used a frozen and rolled pie crust that I had to thaw out for 20 min. I put the crust in a round pie container and filled it with the mixture. I sprinkled some Parmesan cheese on top. I baked it for 45 min at 350F. MMM MMM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saltee dos puerros y una cebolla en un poco de margarina.&lt;br /&gt;Luego bati 4 huevos y los mezcle con media taza de leche evaporada, 1/4 de taza de crema acida, media cucharadita de sal, y 250 g de queso suizo rayado. Luego le anhadi los puerros y la cebolla. Use una masa congelada para pasteles que viene enrollada. La deje descongelar durante 20 min y la puse en un molde redondo para tartaletas. Lo rellene con la mezcla. Le puse un poco de queso parmesano por encima. Lo meti al horno a 180C durante 45 min. Mmm mmmm.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5674619402/" title="leek pie by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="leek pie" height="332" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5674619402_776764bc12.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-996778417555341412?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/996778417555341412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=996778417555341412' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/996778417555341412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/996778417555341412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/and-photography-class-has-started.html' title='And the photography class has started!!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5674619402_776764bc12_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5499850764571979488</id><published>2011-04-22T10:25:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T10:41:40.009-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Easter!!</title><content type='html'>hi everyone!&lt;br /&gt;We are welcoming the Easter holiday with lots of rain and thunderstorms and cold!! It makes me sad that the beautiful tulips that surround every corner of this city are being destroyed by the winds and rain. I guess you just have to enjoy the beauty of spring while it lasts because it doesn't last long!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hola a todos!&lt;br /&gt;Estamos dando la bienvenida a las vacaciones de semana santa con mucha lluvia y tomentas y frio!! Me da rabia que los tulipanes tan bonitos que abundan en cada rincon de esta ciudad sean destruidos por el viento y la lluvia. Supongo que lo que hay que hacer es disfrutar de la primavera mientras dure porque dura poquisimo!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a few days ago I was enjoying my new grill with my friends in a nice pleasant Sunday afternoon. Thinking about my photography course that I am about to start, I kept on taking interesting pictures that would give a glimpse of what was going on around me. This is what I got.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hace unos pocos dias estamos disfrutando con mis amigos de una tarde de domingo muy agusto estrenando mi nueva barbacoa. Como me acordaba que pronto voy a empezar mi curso de fotografia, empece a tomar fotos interesantes de lo que me rodeaba, para dar una pequenha idea de lo que pasa a mi alreadedor. Esto es lo que saque.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5643696368/" title="coronita by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5643696368_dbac1252cb.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="coronita" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5643697422/" title="peanuts by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5643697422_090c64df74.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="peanuts" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5643705950/" title="speaker by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5308/5643705950_285229026e.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="speaker" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5643139549/" title="luca having fun out by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/5643139549_028b08f56a.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="luca having fun out" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And wishing everyone a Happy Easter! we have company around here so I am sure we will be having fun! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y deseandoos a todos unas felices Pascuas! Aqui tenemos companhia asi que seguro que nos lo pasaremos bien!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5499850764571979488?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5499850764571979488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5499850764571979488' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5499850764571979488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5499850764571979488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/happy-easter.html' title='Happy Easter!!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5643696368_dbac1252cb_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1491448169759418374</id><published>2011-04-15T23:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-15T23:24:17.253-05:00</updated><title type='text'>lemon cake</title><content type='html'>I am in a baking mood all over again. I am so much into different things. When sew I sew like crazy, when I bake or cook, I do that all the time and then is the guitar and then the photograph and then whatever else...in a way I wish I would stick to one thing...in another way, I love trying different things, although I may not get too good at any of them. Specially the guitar lol!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I baked a lemon cake yesterday with three different lemon parts, the cake, the syrup that is moistened with and then the glaze! Well, all I have to say, it was delicious!! and it disappeared pretty quickly! I got the recipe from &lt;a href="http://glorioustreats.blogspot.com/2011/04/lemony-lemon-bread.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ahora me ha dado por hacer dulces al horno. Vario tanto. Cuando coso coso sin parar, cuando cocino lo mismo, igual que cuando me da por tocar la guitarra o con la fotografia o con lo que sea...en parte me gustaria centrarme en algo...pero por otro lado, me encanta probar varias cosas, aunque puede que no sea muy buena en ninguna. Sobretodo en lo de tocar la guitarra jajaja!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hice un bizcocho de limon ayer con tres partes diferentes de limon, el bizcocho en si, el sirope con lo que lo emborrache y el glaseado! Bueno, lo unico que me queda por contaros, es que estaba riquisimo!! y desaparecio muy rapido! Saque la receta de &lt;a href="http://glorioustreats.blogspot.com/2011/04/lemony-lemon-bread.html"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5622989920/" title="lemon cake by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5029/5622989920_6ed694f54e.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="lemon cake" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5622989074/" title="pretty cake by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5182/5622989074_521737a310.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="pretty cake" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1491448169759418374?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1491448169759418374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1491448169759418374' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1491448169759418374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1491448169759418374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/lemon-cake.html' title='lemon cake'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5029/5622989920_6ed694f54e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2818258753289433139</id><published>2011-04-11T22:09:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-11T22:27:45.805-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Grateful</title><content type='html'>Today I had a little gathering with many of my friends from around here. It looks like my circle of friends is getting bigger every week. It is great to have so many people to count on, and it is great feeling loved by so many! I feel quite fortunate and it really feel like a lucky person. Today in our little (well not so little) brunch we had all kinds of delicious foods and wonderful people around. I got beautiful flowers, even a balloon and wonderful gifts and even candles that said my name! &lt;div&gt;I baked a big cake and a few quiches. It was a lot of work for me that I am not used to cook for lots of people, but it was so great to do it. Some days it feels like the sun is shining more than ever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoy tuve una pequena reunion con muchas amigas de por aqui. Parece que mi circulo de amigos se va agrandando cada semana. Es increible tener a tanta gente con la que contar, y da mucho gusto sentirme querida asi por tanta gente! Me siento muy afortunada y la verdad es que creo que tengo suerte. Hoy en nuestra pequenha (bueno mas bien gran) desayuno tuvimos delicias de todo tipo y mucha gente increible. Me regalaron flores, incluso un globo y muchos regalos increibles e incluso velitas con mi nombre!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hice una tarta enorme y unos cuantos quiches. Fue mucho trabajo para mi pues no estoy acostumbrada a cocinar para mucha gente, pero con gusto. Algunos dias parece que el sol ilumina mas intensamente.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5611609889/" title="quiche de esparragos by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5611609889_41fa93e19e.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="quiche de esparragos" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5612191332/" title="barritas de espinacas by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5612191332_96b6b9977e.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="barritas de espinacas" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5612190194/" title="tarta de limon y semillas de amapola by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5612190194_dd96c8d810.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="tarta de limon y semillas de amapola" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5611606305/" title="puff de higo by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5611606305_5b6d6cab3c.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="puff de higo" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5611605365/" title="fresas con choco y alfajores by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5611605365_7f71de3ba1.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="fresas con choco y alfajores" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;About Luca, reading about his test results, listening to him, he just blows my mind. He is doing wonderfully, he is already almost caught up to his hearing peers in what he understands, except in some specific areas, and he is not that far behind in the expressive part. He made mistakes that I feel he doesn't have all the time when he speaks. It is just that it is not easy to take tests and to understand the expectations for these little guys. He is a talking machine and he is really doing great. I have to say, he makes me a proud mama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sobre Luca, leyendo mas detenidamente sus resultados, escuchandole, no dejo de alucinar con el. Esta mejorando muchisimo, casi esta al nivel de ninho normoyentes en lo que entinede, menos en algunas areas especificas, y no esta tan lejos en la parte de la expresion. Comete errores que creo que no los comete muchas veces cuando habla. Solo es que no es facil hacer tests y entender las expectativas para ninhos pequenhos como el. No para de hablar y la verdad es que le esta yendo super. He de admitirlo, soy una mama orgullosa. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5612228160/" title="senhorito batman by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5612228160_5bb0ef915c.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="senhorito batman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2818258753289433139?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2818258753289433139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2818258753289433139' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2818258753289433139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2818258753289433139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/grateful.html' title='Grateful'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5611609889_41fa93e19e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-131172588370440413</id><published>2011-04-09T22:54:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T23:05:08.287-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reality check</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Once a year Luca is evaluated with a bunch of tests that give us a good idea of where he is at in terms of language development. These tests are always compared to his hearing peers and of course, as he grows the level that he is compared to is higher and higher. I feel like we are swimming against the flow to close his gap with his hearing peers. I have seen tremendous progress in the past few months, a huge improvement and a realization that he is very independent now and that he can manage quite well with pretty much anybody, since mostly everyone can understand what he says and he can express himself pretty well. Still, the expectations are high and we are observing him with a magnifying lens. After all the effort that he is making, and so are his teachers, therapists and me, after 6.30 h daily of mainly therapy thought the school day, for 10 months, we can only say he has made between 1 year and 1 year and a few months progress...which makes me think. So, a hearing child, without any classes, maybe not even going to school yet, just hearing, doing nothing special, can improve as much as Luca has with all this tremendous amount of efforts and resources. Wow, it blows my mind, it reminds me what an incredible journey we are in, it reminds me of the great effort he has to make in comparison with most kids, it reminds me about the difference between and deaf and a hearing kid. We forget at times while he behaves so much like a hearing kid. But we can't forget all the hard work is behind all of this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Una vez al año a Luca se le evalúa con un montón de pruebas que nos dan una buena idea de donde está en términos del desarrollo del lenguaje. Estas pruebas son siempre en comparación con niños normoyentes de su edad y por supuesto, a medida que crece el nivel con el que se compara es cada vez más alto. Siento que estamos nadando contra corriente para cerrar esa diferencia con los niños normoyentes. He visto un progreso tremendo en los últimos meses, una gran mejora y reconozco que es muy independiente y que ahora se puede manejar bastante bien con cualquiera practicamente, ya que casi todo el mundo puede entender lo que dice y que puede expresarse muy bien. Sin embargo, las expectativas son altas y le estamos observando con una lupa. Después de todo el esfuerzo que está haciendo, tanto sus maestras, terapeutas como yo tambien, después de 6.30 horas diarias de cole, principalmente de terapia, durante 10 meses al año, sólo podemos decir que ha hecho entre 1 año y 1 año y un pocos meses de adelanto... me da que pensar. Un niño oyente, sin ningún tipo de clases, que tal vez ni siquiera va a la escuela, sin embargo, sólo escuchando, sin hacer nada especial, puede aprender tanto como Luca con toda esta enorme cantidad de esfuerzos y recursos. Wow, me sorprende, me recuerda la aventura en la que nos encontramos, me recuerda el gran esfuerzo que tiene que hacer en comparación con la mayoría de los niños, me recuerda la diferencia entre un niño sordo y un niño normoyente. Nos olvidamos a veces, pues él se comporta como un niño normoyente. Pero no podemos olvidar todo el trabajo duro que hay detrás de todo esto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Thank you for your nice birthday wishes. The best part about birthdays these days are the phone calls, the emails, the messages received all day long from people who care about me. It makes me feel special and it is so nice to talk and get nice notes from everybody. I will be making a little party to celebrate on Monday with lots of friends. Wish that long distance friends/family could also join. In the meantime, I got spoiled today with this pastries. I tried one and they were delicious!! Thank you my dear friend for making them for me! you are the best!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gracias por todos vuestros buenos deseos de cumpleaños. Lo mejor de los cumpleaños en esta epoca son las llamadas telefonicas, los emails, los mensajes recividos durante todo el dia de gente que me quiere. Me hace sentir bien y es tan bueno hablar y recibir saludos de todos...Estare celebramdolo con amigas de por aqui el proximo lunes. Me gustaria que mis amigos/familiares que vivne lejos tambien pudieran venir. Mientras tanto, me mimaron hoy con unos alfajorcitos. Los probe y estaban buenisimos!! Gracias querida amiga por hacermelos! Esres TOP!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5605176462/" title="alfajores by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5023/5605176462_95ef8091a9.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="alfajores" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-131172588370440413?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/131172588370440413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=131172588370440413' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/131172588370440413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/131172588370440413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/reality-check.html' title='Reality check'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5023/5605176462_95ef8091a9_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3396127324140020686</id><published>2011-04-03T22:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T22:49:54.112-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cumple</title><content type='html'>In a few hours it'll be my birthday and I can't believe this past year went by so fast...I guess it is a good thing...although I have mixed feelings. I know it is a good thing, because it means I had a good year and flew by, but at the same time I feel a bit sad that I am not able to savor my life and my son's life more slowly. Does that make sense? I don't know, but that's how I feel. I also feel 3 years older than my husband ever was, and a little bit strange about what it means being closer to the 40s. Undefined feelings, but overall quite happy with my life and with the people (physically close or far away) that are close to my heart. My life is still a big question mark, but I am enjoying the path that I am taking to define it a bit better. Luca helps me do that, and I wonder what it will be like when he no longer depends on me so much. But while he does, I better enjoy it, savor it, and live one day at a time.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;En un par de horas sera mi cumpleanhos y no me puedo creer que este anho haya pasado tan rapido...creo que eso es bueno... aunque tengo sentimientos encontrados. Se que es algo positivo sentirme asi, porque significa que tuve un buen anho y por eso volo, pero a la vez me siento un poco triste de no disfrutar mi vida y la vida de mi hijo mas despacio. Tiene sentido? No se, pero me siento asi. Tambien pienso en que soy 3 anhos mayor que lo que mi marido fue, y me siento un poco estranha sobre lo que significa estar mas cercana a los 40. Sentimientos indefinidos, pero en general estoy muy feliz con mi vida y con la gente (fisicamente cercana y lejana) que estan cercanos a mi corazon. Mi vida aun es una gran interrogante, pero estoy disfrutando este camino que estoy tomando para definirla un poco mas. Luca me ayuda en ese sentido, y me pregunto como sera el dia que no dependa de mi tanto. Pero mientras lo haga, sera mejor que lo disfrute, lo savoree, y viva la vida dia a dia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5587869484/" title="DSC_0156 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5015/5587869484_419588d78a.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="DSC_0156" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3396127324140020686?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3396127324140020686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3396127324140020686' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3396127324140020686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3396127324140020686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/cumple.html' title='Cumple'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5015/5587869484_419588d78a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3057787655526422375</id><published>2011-03-28T22:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-28T23:01:53.254-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Chi-town</title><content type='html'>We just came back from a few days visiting Chicago, a city not that far from our home, but far enough that we have never been there before. It was cold, colder than at home with the crazy wind coming from the lake. It was fun, and entertaining, tiring but a great trip. I just wanted to share a few shots from our little trip. Definitely, a place to go!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Acabamos de regresar de unos dias visitando Chicago, una ciudad no muy lejos de aqui, pero lo suficientemente lejos como para no haber ido nunca antes. Hacia frio, mas frio que en casa con el viento terrible que provenia del lago. Lo pasamos bien, fue entretenido, cansado pero un buen viaje. Solo queria compartir algunas fotos de nuestro viajecito. Definitivamente, tenemos que volver!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570406092/" title="chicago at night by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/5570406092_7ea3222d5d.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="chicago at night" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570405192/" title="washing windows by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5299/5570405192_b1436d972e.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="washing windows" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570375680/" title="batman by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5179/5570375680_968b9e2b0a.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="batman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570410552/" title="batman at the gardens by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5570410552_0427e00721.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="batman at the gardens" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570411816/" title="firefighter by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5226/5570411816_e27a7ae882.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="firefighter" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570412722/" title="we made the chair by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5570412722_c707c36f42.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="we made the chair" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570413672/" title="the travelers by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/5570413672_be9dbce8ae.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="the travelers" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5569822063/" title="cool house by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5569822063_46d071b59e.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="cool house" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5569821007/" title="downtown by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5569821007_5b71be4de6.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="downtown" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5569820141/" title="cochlear implant yipiii! by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5569820141_06b3bb59bd.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="cochlear implant yipiii!" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5569819245/" title="astronaut by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5569819245_5cb56e1145.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="astronaut" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5570374902/" title="auditorium by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5570374902_60e93fdfc7.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="auditorium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5569786139/" title="millenium by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/5569786139_4f34bc5fd6.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="millenium" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3057787655526422375?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3057787655526422375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3057787655526422375' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3057787655526422375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3057787655526422375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/chi-town.html' title='Chi-town'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/5570406092_7ea3222d5d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3049413712854858784</id><published>2011-03-23T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-23T16:39:00.622-05:00</updated><title type='text'>new one</title><content type='html'>Luca got me sidetracked with the quilt I was finally working on, and he got me to start a new one for him. He actually went ahead and designed it, told me how it had to look and what colors to use. I followed instructions as he even made a drawing for me, but since the colors were not my cup of tea, I decided to go crazy on the back. I have been using fabrics that I own and just bough one for the border. I still think that I need more fabric, but soon the back will be ready to be sewn...I'm excited!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luca me ha distraido con la colcha que estaba cosiendo por fin, y me ha hecho empezar una nueva para el. Ademas fue y me la disenho, me dijo como tenia que verse y que colores usar. Segui sus instrucciones ya que hasta me lo dibujo, pero ya que los colores no son mis favoritos, decidi volverme loca con la parte de atras. He estado usando telas que tenia y solo compre una mas para el borde. Aun me falta tela, pero pronto podre empezar a coser la parte de atras...que emocionante!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5550811103/" title="luca's new quilt by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5550811103_468de431be.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="luca's new quilt" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3049413712854858784?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3049413712854858784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3049413712854858784' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3049413712854858784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3049413712854858784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-one.html' title='new one'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5550811103_468de431be_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4796666886064315856</id><published>2011-03-19T21:46:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-19T22:07:44.177-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The moon</title><content type='html'>Tonight the moon is supposed to be extremely big. It is raining right now so I can't think about even looking for it...but at least, yesterday when I saw it, I didn't waste a minute and took some shots. It was an amazing evening with clouds and a moonlight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Esta noche se supone que la luna va a ser enorme. Esta lloviendo ahora asi que no pienso ni salir a uscarla...pero por lo menos ayer cuando la vi, no perdi el tiempo y le hice unas cuantas fotos. fue una noche increible de nubes y luz de luna.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5541866714/" title="moon1 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5174/5541866714_2d1a7a5e65.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="moon1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5541288725/" title="moon2 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/5541288725_f5663525fc.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="moon2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5541289645/" title="moon3 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5541289645_05e3b95f14.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="moon3" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the flowers I bought for my neighbor opened to this amazing bunch. I enjoy irises so much, my favorite flower these days. My neighbors came back. She happens to be from Sendai, one of the cities mostly devastated by the earthquake/tsunami. Her family is safe, but I can just imagine how she must feel right now...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y las flores que le compre a mi vecina se abrieron asi de bonitas. Me encantan los iris, son mi flor favorita ultimamente. Mis vecinos volvieron. Resulta que ella es de Sendai, una de las ciudades ams afectadas por el terremoto/maremoto. Su familia esta a salvo, pero no me puedo ni imaginar como se debe sentir en estos momentos...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5541869390/" title="iris open by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5541869390_ee47438584.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="iris open" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I am back to sewing! I got back to working in that quilt I started in Florida...a long time ago. I a happy to get it going and to get my sewing machine back to work!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y estoy volviendo a coser! Volvi a ponerme con esa colcha que empece en Florida...hace mucho tiempo. Estoy contenta de seguir con eso y de poner mi maquina de coser a trabajar de nuevo!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5541904222/" title="stem by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5541904222_b377231e97.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="stem" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4796666886064315856?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4796666886064315856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4796666886064315856' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4796666886064315856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4796666886064315856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/moon.html' title='The moon'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5174/5541866714_2d1a7a5e65_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7928021600078592106</id><published>2011-03-14T20:44:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-14T20:51:26.351-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Iris</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5528149300/" title="iris flowers by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5528149300_1a8abed8ec.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="iris flowers" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought these flowers to give to my neighbor, who is Japanese, but she is not around here. I am not sure if they are out of town...but in the meantime, the irises opened and I am the one enjoying them, while my heart aches from all that is happening in Japan. I'm glad that all of my friends that I keep in touch with are safe...but they all face a big challenge ahead getting on with Japan's recovery. If you would like, you can help &lt;a href="https://american.redcross.org/site/SPageServer?s_subsrc=RCO_NewsArticle&amp;pagename=ntld_main&amp;s_src=RSG000000000"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Compre estas flores para darselas a mi vecina, que es japonesa, pero no esta por ningun lado. No se si se han ido unos dias...mientras, los iris se ha abierto y los estoy disfrutando yo, que me siento tan acongojada con lo que esta ocurriendo en Japon. Me alegro de que todos mis amigos con los que sigo en contacto estan a salvo...pero todos tienen un gran desafio frente a ellos para la recuperacion de Japon. Si quieres puedes ayudar &lt;a href="https://american.redcross.org/site/SPageServer?s_subsrc=RCO_NewsArticle&amp;pagename=ntld_main&amp;s_src=RSG000000000"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7928021600078592106?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7928021600078592106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7928021600078592106' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7928021600078592106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7928021600078592106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/iris.html' title='Iris'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5528149300_1a8abed8ec_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8276166667626611457</id><published>2011-03-13T10:00:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-13T10:08:55.883-05:00</updated><title type='text'>St Patrick's parade</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5522928344/" title="leppercon by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5522928344_4f432dd00b.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="leppercon" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday the town celebrated St Patrick's day with a walk/run and a parade. We went down there with some friends and it was so much fun. It is good to go out when the weather is starting to cooperate and enjoy the fresh air with lots of crazy people. The train ride to downtown reminded me of Japan in the "rashu" hour....we were squished good...but the return trip was so much better. The kids got to see out the window and enjoy the ride. It was a fun day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ayer nuestra ciudad celebro el dia de San Patricio con una caminata y con una cabalgata. Fuimos al centro con algunos amigos y lo pasamos super. Da gusto salir cuando el tiempo esta empezando a cooperar y da gusto respirar aire freco con mucha gente loca por la calle. El viaje en tren al centro me recordo a Japon en su hora "rashu"...nos aplastaron bien...pero el viaje de vuelta fue mucho mejor. Los ninhos pudieron disfrutar del viaje mirando por la ventana. Lo pasamos muy bien.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5522928768/" title="train ride by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5056/5522928768_d9103a3206.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="train ride" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of our fun moments, as the hours go by after the earthquake/tsunami that hit Japan, the images that we see are so hopeless and terrifying that my heart is with Japan and all the people that are affected by this tragedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A pesar de nuestros momentos de diversion, segun van pasando las horas despues del terremoto/maremoto de Japon, las imagenes que nos llegan son tan desoladoras y angustiosas que sigo pensando en el pueblo Japones y en toda la gente que se ha visto afectada por este desastre.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8276166667626611457?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/8276166667626611457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=8276166667626611457' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8276166667626611457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8276166667626611457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/st-patricks-parade.html' title='St Patrick&apos;s parade'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5522928344_4f432dd00b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2896166201899420268</id><published>2011-03-11T10:37:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:44:06.281-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Japan</title><content type='html'>Oh my dear Japan. Today I put this ring on without knowing what was happening on that side of the world. I am sad to know that the big earthquake that was always expected arrived and with a  tsunami, and that there are so many lives lost and so much destruction. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uy querido Japon. Hoy me puse este anillo sin saber lo que estaba pasando por aquel lado del mundo. Me da pensa penar que el gran terremoto que siempre se espero, llego, y con un tsunami, y que hay tantas vidas perdidas y tanta destruccion.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5517204085/" title="tsunami by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5517204085_43578de9a8.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="tsunami" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pienso en mis amigos y sus familias y espero que esten todos a salvo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think about my friends and their families and I hope they are all safe.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2896166201899420268?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2896166201899420268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2896166201899420268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2896166201899420268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2896166201899420268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan.html' title='Japan'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5517204085_43578de9a8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1473012721280149444</id><published>2011-03-10T16:45:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:44:55.953-06:00</updated><title type='text'>kindle cover</title><content type='html'>And this time I did take pictures. This is the 4th kindle that arrives to my home, and I don't even own one myself! but I do enjoy making covers for them. It was very easy to make and I didn't follow any pattern, I just took the kindle as model and made it around it. I like it because the colors are great and I love that you can see the dragon in both sides. I hope the new owner likes it too!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y esta vez si que hice fotos. Este es el cuarto lector electronico que llega a mi casa, y ni siquiera tengo uno yo! pero me gusta hacerles las fundas. Fue muy facil y no segui ningun patron, simplemente cogi el kindle como modelo y lo hice alreadedor de el. Me gusta porque los colores estan muy bien y me encanta que se ve bien al dragon por los dos lados. Espero que a su nuevo propiertario le guste!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5516125784/" title="kindle cover by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5516125784_236044ce94.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="kindle cover" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5515536247/" title="kindle cover by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5515536247_ce059a14fe.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="kindle cover" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I got back to sewing!!! that's is major!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y volvi a coser! Eso es mucho!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1473012721280149444?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1473012721280149444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1473012721280149444' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1473012721280149444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1473012721280149444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/kindle-cover.html' title='kindle cover'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5516125784_236044ce94_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2801676403762455694</id><published>2011-03-08T22:43:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:47:34.948-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Photographs</title><content type='html'>I have signed up for 2 photography courses. I will be doing them in May, so in the meantime, I am just doing what feels best with my camera...really having no idea about what I'm doing. I don't know how many pics I took today of my beautiful blooming orchids, and this is the best I could get. Really, I need to read the camera manual at least...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me he apuntado a dos cursos de fotografia. Los hare en Mayo, asi que mientras tanto, estoy haciendo lo que me parece que esta bien con la camara...sin tener idea de lo que estoy haciendo realmente. No se cuantas fotos hice hoy de mis orquideas con flores que estan tan bonitas, y esto es lo mejor que saque. La verdad, me tengo que poner a leer el manual de mi camara por lo menos...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5511403790/" title="DSC_0109 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5511403790_d074ef2c6d.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="DSC_0109" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today Luca and I went grocery shopping. I asked him do you want steak for dinner? and he answered: United steaks....so I put this face like what??? and he said, you know...where we live! and then I tried to convince him that it was States not steaks, but he repeated United Steaks a million more times, so now is hard to change it ha!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoy fui al supermercado con Luca. Le pregunte si queria filete (steak) para cenar. y me contesto : United Stakes...y le puse una cara de queee??? y me dijo, ya sabes, donde vivimos! y luego le intente corregir pero no hubo manera, repitio United Stakes un millon de veces asi que ya lo debe tener grabado en su memoria ja!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am going to sew now. Maybe I will have something to show next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voy a ponerme a coser ahora. Quizas tenga algo que ensenhar el proximo dia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2801676403762455694?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2801676403762455694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2801676403762455694' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2801676403762455694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2801676403762455694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/photographs_08.html' title='Photographs'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5511403790_d074ef2c6d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6371726537741974224</id><published>2011-03-02T21:39:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:53:45.514-06:00</updated><title type='text'>a little creativity?</title><content type='html'>Well, I guess writing is creative too, it takes me a lot of time to translate what I write and that makes my posts sometimes to take a loooong time to come out of my computer. Tonight, I had a broken blind in my living room, and since I have already opened them in the past, I decided to see if I can order the part that is broken to fix it. I didn't find the same part, but I put this beautiful marimeko fabric in its place and it already inspires me :) maybe when I feel under creative I should just change my environment a bit...well I haven't made anything, only taken the picture, but it inspires me and that is the first step.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bueno, escribir es algo creativo, me lleva mucho tiempo traducir lo que escribo y eso hace que mis posts se retrasen mucho a veces. Esta noche, tenia una persiana rota en mi casa y como ya las he bajado en otras ocasiones, decidi bajarla para buscar la pieza rota en internet y comprarla y arreglarla. No he encontrado la misma pieza, pero he puesto esta tela de marimeko para tapar la ventana y ya me siento inspirada :) quizas cuando me sienta con poca cretividad deberia cambiar algo de mi ambiente...bueno aun no he hecho nada, solo la foto, pero me inspira y ese es el primer paso.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5493011575/" title="window by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5493011575_cb37638f60.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="window" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is the book that Luca brought from school. They make the best books, many times with the kids pictures, but always with all of the kids participation. In this case, it was a mail truck, with alphabet letter in it, and Luca's page, of course, has to have the batman logo on it. He can't help it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y este es el libro que Luca trajo del cole. Hacen unos libros mas chulos, muchas veces con las fotos de los ninhos en el, pero siempre con la participacion de todos ellos. En este caso, era un camion de correos, con las letras del alfabeto, y la pagina de Luca, por supuesto, con el logo de batman. No lo puede evitar.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5493604464/" title="book by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5493604464_7856e92f4f.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="book" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5493013113/" title="tururu by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5493013113_6fd2c792ec.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="tururu" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6371726537741974224?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6371726537741974224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6371726537741974224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6371726537741974224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6371726537741974224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-creativity.html' title='a little creativity?'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5493011575_cb37638f60_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3748036109325476634</id><published>2011-02-26T16:41:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T11:53:33.972-06:00</updated><title type='text'>what makes me happy</title><content type='html'>On February 25, it was the international day of the cochlear implants. My friend told me that the first cochlear implant was implanted 54 years ago...that is half century of development into a wonderful technology that today is still unbelievable how well it works. I was in basketball practice today, feeling sick, so instead of following Luca round the sides of the court I was just sitting on my chair looking and once in a while wishing his FM system was set up already. Anyways, I think it is good sometimes to let him go and not micromanage him so much, after all, that is real life. At one point, he was staying in his position instead of running towards the offensive position (he still doesn't quite get that) so in that loud court, where I can't hardly hear myself I yelled Luca!!!! and he looked at me right away. Wow, that was impressive, not only he heard me but reacted and looked at the right direction of the sound. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;El 25 de febrero es el dia internacional del implante coclear. Mi amiga me conto que el primer implante coclear fue implantado hace 54 anhos...eso es medio siglo de desarrollo hacia una tecnologia alucinante que es increible lo bien que funciona. Hoy estabamos en una practica de baloncesto, yo me sentia mal, asi que en lugar de seguir a Luca por los lados de la pista me quede sentada en mi silla mirandole y de vez en cuando echando de menos no tener un sistema de FM listo. Bueno, creo que a veces esta bien no agobiarle y dejar de ayudarle en cada minuto, despues de todo, asi es la vida real. En un momento, se quedo en una posicion en lugar de correr hacia la posicion de ofensiva (aun no lo pilla) asi que en esa pista tan ruidosa, donde ni yo me oigo le grite Luca!!!!!! y me miro rapidamente al instante. Wow, que increible, no solo me oyo sino que ademas reacciono y miro en la direccion correcta de donde provenia mi voz.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When kids have cochlear implants since they are so young, they are so used to background noise, that they learn to manage the noise much better than late implanted adults. So if I want to block out the background noise with another setting so that he can focus on hearing only the people around him (like at a restaurant) he doesn't like it, it doesn't feel natural and he prefers the noisy environment. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cuando los ninhos han sido implantados con implante coclear muy temprano, estan tan acostumbrados al ruido de fondo que aprenden a manejarse con el ruido mucho mejor que adultos implantados mas tarde. Tanto es asi que si quiero bloquearle el ruido de fonod con un programa para que se pueda centrar en escuchar solo a la gente a su alrededor (como en un restaurante) no le gusta, no se siente natural y prefiere el ambiente ruidoso.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But even though this makes me happy, this is not why I wrote that title, I get sidetracked writing and often lose my focus. I am still thinking about all this business of being happy. Most people live in a state of I want to be somewhere other than where I am right now with my life. I do that too. I am looking forward to the moment when Luca can speak just like his hearing peers, I am looking forward to the day when we can have a place that we can call our own and that makes us happy to live there, I am always looking forward till the day I can go to Spain to visit my relatives and friends. Then those moments come and go, and then what? then we have to look for some new things to look forward. Instead of just enjoying what we have right now. Not that we don't, but instead of longing for a place of my own, enjoy this place for all its positives and for where it takes me at this time in our lives. Instead of thinking about the things that you are missing, think about the things you would be missing if you weren't in the position where you are right now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pero a pesar de que esto me hace feliz, esto no es por eso que escribi este título, me desvio facilmente, y suelo perder mi enfoque. Todavía estoy pensando en todo este asunto de ser feliz. La mayoría de la gente vive en un estado de "quiero estar en un lugar distinto de donde estoy ahora con mi vida". Yo también. Estoy deseando que llegue el momento en que Luca pueda hablar al igual que sus amiguitos oyentes, estoy deseando que llegue el día en que podamos tener un lugar al que llamar nuestro hogar y que nos haga felices vivir en el, siempre estoy deseando que llegue el día en que pueda ir a España para visitar a mi familia y amigos. Pero esos momentos vienen y van, y luego qué? buscamos cosas nuevas que desear. En lugar de simplemente disfrutar de lo que tenemos ahora mismo. No es que no lo hagamos, pero en vez de desear un lugar propio, debemos disfrutar de este lugar donde vivimos por todos sus aspectos positivos y por el lugar donde estamos en este momento de nuestras vidas. En lugar de pensar en las cosas que nos faltan, pienso en las cosas que nos perderíamos si no estuvieramos donde estamos ahora mismo. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buying clothes doesn't bring me happiness. I bought a couple of shirts to Luca out of maybe "guilt" because I never think about buying him clothes, he always has a lot of them, mostly hand me downs of presents from family members, and I sometimes feel bad that I am not like other parents who enjoy buying clothes for their kids. The thing is he doesn't care, he is happy with whatever I give him (of course I always tell him how cool he looks and he indeed believes me). Isn't that what is all about? Thinking that you are happy with what you have? instead of sadly longing for something else you can't afford? Anyway, this is just what's going around in my head these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comprar ropa no hace feliz. He comprado un par de camisetas a Luca con un poco de sentimiento de "culpa" porque yo nunca se me ocurre comparle ropas, siempre tiene un montón de cosas, muchas heredadas, y a veces me siento mal de no ser como los otros padres que disfrutan comprando ropa para sus hijos. Lo que pasa es que a el no le importa, él es feliz con lo que yo le dé, (por supuesto, yo siempre le digo lo guapo que se ve y de hecho me cree). ¿No es eso lo que se trata? Pensar que eres feliz con lo que tienes? en lugar sentir tristeza por anhelo de algo más que no puedes pagar? Bueno, esto es sólo lo que está pasando en mi cabeza en estos días.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My creative juice is dry...I tell myself today I will make something, but then, I find something else to read or watch or do...maybe soon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mi jugo creativo se ha secado...me digo a mi misma que hoy hare algo, pero entonces, encuentro algo interesante que leer, o que ver, o que hacer...quizas pronto...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5489578744/" title="tulips by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5489578744_5003d133da.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="tulips" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3748036109325476634?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3748036109325476634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3748036109325476634' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3748036109325476634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3748036109325476634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-makes-me-happy.html' title='what makes me happy'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5489578744_5003d133da_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2549258791343037154</id><published>2011-02-22T18:45:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T21:29:11.588-06:00</updated><title type='text'>happiness</title><content type='html'>Some time ago, a friend of mine told me something about happiness and about me. Being aware of all the ups and downs that I have been through in the past years she told me that everyone has a baseline of happiness. Like a genetically defined baseline. Then there are other factors and circumstances that may drive you up or down from that line, and the higher you are, the easier it is to recover from those bumps in the road. She also said that she thought I had a very high level of happiness to start with, and knowing the way I am and the way I see things, I had to agree. I tend to see the positive side of things, even of the most painful and dark situations. Sometimes, it feels like a defense mechanism, others is just my automatic pilot, driving me towards my normal happy side of things. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hace un tiempo, una amiga mia me dijo algo sobre la felicidad y sobre mi. Sabiendo de todos los altibajos que he pasado en los ultimos anhos me dijo que todo el mundo tenemos una felicidad base. Como si fuera algo que esta escrito en tu codigo genetico. A parte de eso, hay muchos otros factores y circunstancias que pueden llevarte por arriba o por abajo de esa base, y cuanto mas alta sea esa base, es mas facil recuperarse de las caidas del camino. Tambien me dijo que pensaba que yo tenia una base de felicidad muy alta, y conociendo mi manera de ver las cosas, la verdad es que estoy de acuerdo. Suelo ver las cosas por el lado positivo, incluso las mas dolorosas y dificiles. A veces, es como un mecanismo de defensa, otras es el piloto automatico, que me lleva hacia el lado alegre de las cosas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have been reading &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Project-Morning-Aristotle-Generally/dp/0061583251"&gt;this book&lt;/a&gt; about this girl who starts a happiness project to try to be happier, to make sure she can appreciate her life more. It is interesting because many of the things that so far she mentions, I have done them in the past years to reach that stable happiness. One thing that she said was that people who are in situations that are not familiar, that are not easy and are out of your comfort zone, tend to be better at adapting to adverse situations when these suddenly occur. I can see that. I have been in so many difficult situations in my life, mostly they were my own choice (because I tend not to think too much what I'm getting into as long as I figure that the ultimate experience will be a positive one), and that, I feel, has made me a much more tolerant and patient person to situations that are out of my control. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;He estado leyendo &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Project-Morning-Aristotle-Generally/dp/0061583251"&gt;este libro&lt;/a&gt; sobre una chica que empieza un proyecto sobre la felicidad para intentar ser mas feliz, para poder apreciar su vida aun mas. Es interesante porque muchas de las cosas que menciona, ya las he hecho en estos ultimos anhos para llegar a una felicidad estable. Una de las cosas que cuenta es que la gente que estan en situaciones en las que no se sienten tan familiarizados ni comodos, suelen ser mas capaces de adaptarse a situaciones adversas cuando ocurren de repente. Lo veo clarisimo. He estado en tantas situaciones dificiles en mi vida, la mayoria de veces fue decision mia (porque suelo no pensar mucho en lo que me estoy metiendo siempre que sepa que la experiencia final va a ser positiva), y que creo que me han hecho mucho mas tolerante y paciente ante situaciones que estan fuera de mi control. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Taking care of some of those things in your to-do-list that you constantly procrastinate about because you just don't know how to tackle them, is one was to make you feel better. For me, it had to do with finding new insurance that could accommodate both of us without costing us a fortune (just close to it) and also getting them implants and FM system. I feel a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. And I feel happier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ocuparse de algunas de esas cosas en la lista de cosas que uno siempre deja para despues porque no sabes ni como atacarlas, es una de esas cosas que te hacen sentir mejor. Para mi, una de esas cosas era encontrar un seguro de salud que nos acomodase a los dos sin costarnos una fortuna (aunque casi) y tambien otra era conseguir los implantes nuevos y el equipo de FM. Siento que me he qitado un gran peso de mis espaldas. Y me siento mas feliz.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Making my orchids bloom also gives me a boost of happiness!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hacer que florezcan mis orquideas tambien me da mucha alegria!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5469612473/" title="orchids by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5469612473_d83c313dac.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="orchids" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2549258791343037154?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2549258791343037154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2549258791343037154' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2549258791343037154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2549258791343037154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/02/happiness.html' title='happiness'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5469612473_d83c313dac_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-354402883543202345</id><published>2011-02-19T14:43:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T19:26:48.499-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New implants are IN!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Luca has his new implants!!!! I can't believe it! Not that the problem with the insurance is settled completely, but crossing our fingers that it will be soon. I just thought it looks like it will be and so I wanted him to have his new implants...he was soo excited...he showed everyone, he showed his new covers, he put them in and out a million times and he is just so happy...and so am I. And the best part is that he didn't seem like it sounded too different. It must sound pretty much the same because he has be wearing them without any issues. I am so happy:)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luca ya tiene sus implantes nuevos!!! No me lo creo! No es que el problema con el seguro se haya resuelto del todo, pero crucemos los dedos para que asi sea pronto. Creo que se arreglara pronto asi que queria que ya los tuviera...y esta tan emocionado...se los ha ensenhado a todo el mundo, esta venga a ensenhar las cubiertas azules, que se las pone y saca un millon de veces al dia y esque esta tan feliz...y yo tambien. Y lo mejor es que no le suenan muy diferentes a los anteriores. Deben ser muy similares porque los ha estado usando como si nada y sin problemas. Estoy feliz :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5453844925/" title="these are he blue covers! by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5453844925_d20acb23c4.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="these are he blue covers!" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5453845865/" title="implant N5 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/5453845865_ed1ea67180.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="implant N5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://sketch.odopod.com/flash/OdoSketch.swf?sketchURL=/sketches/290535.xml&amp;amp;userURL=/users/62639&amp;amp;bgURL=/images/bigbg.jpg&amp;amp;mode=embed" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#EDE7DB" menu="false" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="470" height="229"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-354402883543202345?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/354402883543202345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=354402883543202345' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/354402883543202345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/354402883543202345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-implants-are-in.html' title='New implants are IN!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5453844925_d20acb23c4_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3096939364241297872</id><published>2011-02-15T13:32:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T14:43:17.964-06:00</updated><title type='text'>V</title><content type='html'>On Monday it was the V day. Valentines..big deal around this land....not my favorite holiday but, at least fun for the kids. I decided to make some cupcakes to give the teachers in appreciation of all they do with our children, all the happiness they bring into Luca's and my life. I guess this is the last time I am doing it ha ha! It wasn't too bad, but this is really not my thing. I got tired and I over think things and so I spend lots of time and energy and I end up with headaches. Oh well, just the fact that Luca felt so good by giving these boxes away, it made it all worth it. He is a gentleman and loves to behave like one and think about it later. Where did he get that from??? not sure, but it sure is cute.&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;El lunes era el dia de San Valentin...se celebra mucho por estos lares...no es mi fiesta favorita, pero por lo menos los ninhos lo pasan bien. Decidi hacer unos pastelitos para darselos a las senhos como muestra de aprecio por todo lo que hacen con nuestros ninhos, y toda la felicidad que le proporcionan a Luca y a mi. Creo que es la ultima vez que lo voy a hacer ja! No fue tan malo, pero esque esto no es lo mio. Me canse y pienso las cosas demasiado y paso mucho tiempo y energia y acabo con dolores de cabeza. Bueno, solo saber que Luca se sentia tan bien dando las cajitas, hizo que mereciera la pena. Es un caballero y le encanta comportarse como uno y luego pensar en ello. De donde lo saco??? no lo se, pero es muy mono.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5454452662/" title="cuty pie by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5454452662_93491fcc21.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="cuty pie" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5453839535/" title="valentines by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5257/5453839535_d7cb39d6aa.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="valentines" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Other than that, days like this one, I am reminded of all the special people that I have around and not so close but still "around me". It is nice to see that so many people care about us and have interest about what happens with our lives. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;A parte de eso, en dias como este, me acuerdo de toda la gente tan especial que tenemos alrededor y no tan cerca pero "alreadedor". Da gusto ver que hay tanta gente que se preocupa por nosotros y que tiene interes en lo que pase con nuestras vidas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3096939364241297872?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3096939364241297872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3096939364241297872' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3096939364241297872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3096939364241297872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/02/v.html' title='V'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5454452662_93491fcc21_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5642820763155788315</id><published>2011-02-06T10:30:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T13:28:05.527-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Talking machine</title><content type='html'>Hi!&lt;div&gt; It's been a while since I talk about Luca's progress. He has been doing so great that we are sailing though the days. I remember when I had to make such a great effort to understand him, and even to make him talk, but now...I still have to correct him, but it almost comes all from him. He starts saying really complicated sentences and also expressions that make me laugh, like "what in the world!!!" and he is more mature to be willing to follow my games. Being just the two of us, sometimes it is hard to get him motivated to work with me. I need to be very creative to engage him in games he is not familiar with, and make him feel like he wants to continue playing, I pretty much need to make him feel good so that he doesn't quit playing. I bought him a game for his birthday, it was about guessing things by asking questions. He still wasn't mastering the thing about asking questions well, and back in November he pretty much refused to play. I let it be, and now that he is more into playing games, I decided to give it a try. I was very pleasantly surprised that he wasn't cheating, which is hard for him, when it is sooo much easier when you cheat! and that he was asking questions and guessing! of course I was giving him many leads and tips to figure it out, and the fact that he was winning, made him want to continue playing. It was awesome. I know, if you have a hearing child with no challenges this sounds a bit crazy, but it is a major step forward for me. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt; Desde hace ya tiempo que no hablo sobre el progreso de Luca. Esta progresando tanto  que se nos pasan os dias volando. Recuerdo cuando tenia que hacer un gran esfuerzo para entenderle, e incluso hacerle hablar, pero ahora ... todavía tengo que corregirle, pero casi le sale todo a el solito. Ya esta diciendo frases muy complicadas y también expresiones que me hacen reír, como algo que se traduce como "pero que pasa!" y él es más maduro y esta dispuesto a a seguir mis juegos. Al ser sólo nosotros dos, a veces es difícil conseguir motivarle a trabajar conmigo. Tengo que ser muy creativa para que participe en los juegos con los que no está familiarizado, y para que quiera seguir jugando, osea tengo que hacer que se sienta bien para que no deje de jugar. Le compré un juego para su cumpleaños, que se trataba de adivinar unas cosas haciendo preguntas. Todavía no sabe hacer preguntas para averiguar la descripcion de algo, y en noviembre prácticamente se negó a jugar. Lo dejé estar, y ahora que está más en los juegos, decidí darle una oportunidad. Me sorprendio gratamente pues no hizo trampas, lo cual es difícil para él, cuando es taaanto más fácil cuando haces trampas! y tambien me sorprendio que él estuviera haciendo preguntas y adivinase! por supuesto que le daba muchas pistas y explicaciones para saber hacer las preguntas, tanto asi que fue el ganador, y por eso queria seguir jugando. Fue impresionante. Lo sé, si tienes un niño oyente, sin problemas de ningun tipo, se que esto suena un poco exagerado, pero es un gran paso adelante para mí. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have also been following the advice of one of his teachers, the one who does parent ed with me weekly, and since we had 2 snow days with no school this past week, she advised us to make snow vanilla ice cream. We were very entertained during those 2 days and didn't have a chance to do it, but it snowed again 2 days ago, and yesterday, we decided to do it. It was a great language activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tambien hemos estado siguiendo el consejo de una de sus profesoras, la que me da clases a mi semanalmente, y como tuvimos dos dias de nieve, sin cole, esta semana pasada, nos aconsejo que hicieramos helado de vainilla. Estuvimos muy entretenidos durante esos dias  y no nos dio tiempo a hacerlo, pero nevo de nuevo hace dos dias, y ayer, decidimos hacerlo. Fue una experiencia de lenguage muy buena. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5421574897/" title="Snow ice cream by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5421574897_eb7a787707.jpg" width="500" height="335" alt="Snow ice cream" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than that, I made a &lt;a href="http://minervascircle.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-birthday-claudia.html"&gt;coconut roll&lt;/a&gt; from my dear Portuguese friend that I had in Florida. Mmm it was so good! Coconut, sugar, eggs and bit of butter. So good! This is just the leftover, that I am having every day for breakfast :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A parte de eso, hice un &lt;a href="http://minervascircle.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-birthday-claudia.html"&gt;rollo de coco&lt;/a&gt; de mi amiga Portugesa que conoci en Florida. Mmmm que rico estaba! Coco, azucar, huevos y una pizca de mantequilla. Que rico! Es solo lo que quedo, que me lo voy a comer estos dias e desayuno :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5421591577/" title="rollo de coco by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5421591577_6c50d4059b.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="rollo de coco" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5642820763155788315?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5642820763155788315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5642820763155788315' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5642820763155788315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5642820763155788315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/02/talking-machine.html' title='Talking machine'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5421574897_eb7a787707_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5698719041040939166</id><published>2011-01-31T21:39:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T21:44:44.242-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This is what we are dealing with...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Esto es con lo que estamos lidiando por aqui...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5406730104/" title="pathfinder by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5406730104_56b95309fc.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="pathfinder" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5406124941/" title="tree by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5214/5406124941_8c807eb2f2.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="tree" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5406125893/" title="ice storm by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5256/5406125893_3357afb4e2.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="ice storm" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5406733084/" title="pretty blue by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5406733084_a667174a80.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="pretty blue" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5698719041040939166?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5698719041040939166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5698719041040939166' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5698719041040939166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5698719041040939166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/ice.html' title='Ice'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5406730104_56b95309fc_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4744531298577313703</id><published>2011-01-29T17:48:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-30T00:20:30.128-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Second hand</title><content type='html'>One of the good things about living in a bigger city is that you can find occasionally interesting things in the second hand store. I sometimes see things that buried in a lot of other garbage, it looks like nothing special, but if you picture it in your home, it might be something nice. I don't like to spend money in things that I don't need, and I always ask myself if, other than not needing it, it could be something special and worthwhile for the price. This way, I have bought little things here and there. A few weeks ago I found some cookie cans. I really don't know what to put in them, they have some buttons and flowers for head pieces that I once was working on, but really they are mostly empty. Still, they look so cute and colorful...that I couldn't resist, and now that I see them around my colorful home, I think it was worth it.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Una de las cosas que tiene el vivir en una ciudad mas grande es de vez en cuando encuentras cosas interestantes en las tiendas de segunda mano. A veces veo cosas enterradas entre mucha basura, y parece que algo nada especial, pero si te lo imaginas en tu casa, puede que si sea algo bonito. No me gusta gastarme el dinero en cosas que no necesito, y siempre me pregunto si, a parte de no necesitarlo, podria ser algo especial y que merezca la pena por el precio. Asi, he comprado algunas cositas aqui y alla. Hace unas semanas encontre unas latas de galletas. No se que poner en ellas, tienen algunos botones y flores que uso para hacer diademas y adornos del pelo, pero la verdad es que estan medio vacias. Aun asi, son tan bonitas y coloridas....que no me pude resistirm y ahora que las veo en mi hogar colorido, me parece que merecio la pena.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5398954849/" title="Vintage looking cans by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5398954849_b6afd7dd5f.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="Vintage looking cans" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another thing that I do buy in second hand stores are clothes. Usually for Luca. As you may know by now, he has this thing for costumes, and what a better place than a second hand store...he wanted to look like Batman's friend Robin, I got him some green pants and a red sweatshirt....then he wanted to look like a man...I had a tie and today I got him a blazer. It's not easy to find one his size, but if you look everyday, eventually, you find it :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Otra cosa que compro de segunda mano son ropas. Normalmente para Luca. Como ya debeis saber, tiene esta ilusion por disfrazarse, y que mejor lugar que la tienda de segunda mano...queria parecerse a Robin, el amigo de Batman...le compre unos pantalones verdes y una sudadera roja...luego queria parece un hombre...le puse una corbata y hoy le consegui una chaqueta. No es facil encontrar una de su tamanho, pero si miras todos los dias, al final, la encuentras:)))&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5398958427/" title="cool man by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5398958427_58cce52ac9.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="cool man" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4744531298577313703?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4744531298577313703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4744531298577313703' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4744531298577313703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4744531298577313703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/second-hand.html' title='Second hand'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5398954849_b6afd7dd5f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8400382855365643325</id><published>2011-01-24T21:08:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T22:42:36.784-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Drunk with superheroes</title><content type='html'>First of all, I keep on forgetting to talk about the kindle cover. I made it really nice, right mom? But I forgot to take a picture. It was a simple sleeve that fit the kindle not too snug and that had a small flap to close it with a Velcro. I made it up myself, I put a black and white fabric outside and a red one inside. It had some fleece inside to make it soft and protect the device. I would like to make another one following a tutorial that I saw (in Japanese) using the hard covers of a real book. I don't have a kindle in my hands to test it anymore, but I did cut one out of cardboard so I can experiment with it. Maybe one of these days if I am inspired...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lo primero, que se me olvida hablar de la funda del kindle. La hice muy chula, verdad mama? Pero se me olvido hacerle una foto. Era una funda muy sencilla que no estaba muy ajustada y que tenia una solapita para cerrarla con Velcro. Me la invente yo, use una tela en blanco y negro y por dentro una roja, Tenia forro polar por dentro para hacerla mas suave y para proteger el aparato. Me hubiera gustado hacer una siguiendo una explicaion que vi (en japones) usando unas tapas duras de un libro de verdad. Ya no tengo ningun kindle conmigo, pero recorte un pedazo de carton con su forma para experimentar con el. Quizas un dia de estos si me inspiro...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5386089261/" title="DSC_0003 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5386089261_332983c9a8.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="DSC_0003" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Luca's two favorite ways to play: to dress up, particularly like a superhero...but his thing is this, he goes inside a cardboard box that came with a trashcan I bought, with his costume on, and on top he is wearing his nice shirt, that lately he wants to wear at all times (he thinks superman and spiderman are always very dressed up like that). He goes in that mini box (mini for his size anyways) and I don't know how, but he comes out with just the spiderman costume...amazing spiderman....the second one, tying things up, now with a shoelace thing, he is learning how to tie a shoe, but is more fun if batman to ties a skeleton, go figure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Las dos formas favoritas de Luca para divertirse: disfrazarse, en particular como un superheroe...pero asi lo hace, se mete en una caja de carton que venia con un cubo de basura que compre, con su disfraz y encima una camisa arregladita, que ultimamente se la quiere poner a toda hora (piensa que superman y spiderman siempre van muy arreglaos, asi). Se mete en la mini caja (para su tamanho es mini) y no se como lo hace, pero sale solo con el disfraz de hombre aranha...increible este hombre aranha....la segunda cosa que le gusta es atar cosas, ahora con un cordon de zapatos que se usa para aprender a atarlos, pero es mas diver si batman ata a un esqueleto, vete a saber.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5386691180/" title="DSC_0007 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5386691180_befc3ba012.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="DSC_0007" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am getting Luca some new implants. Well the processor, which is just the external part. There is nothing wrong with his current implants, but hopefully he will even hear better, especially in noisy environments with the new ones, plus they seem thinner and lighter. I am still crossing my fingers because although the insurance is mostly paying for them, I had some trouble, just to make it more interesting I guess, and even though we have the implants, I don't dare to open the boxes until I am 100% sure everything has been resolved. Hopefully soon I will be able to share his new N5s. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For now, a few shots, so we can always remember his first implants, spidy Freedoms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;He conseguido para Luca unos implantes nuevos. Bueno, el procesador, que es la parte externa. No le pasa nada malo a los que tiene, pero esperemos que con los nuevos, sea capaz de escuchar mejor, sobretodo en situaciones de ruido ], y ademas parecen mas finitos y mas ligeros. Aun tengo que cruzar los dedos porque parece que el seguro los esta pagando, he tenido algun problemilla, para hacer el asunto mas interesante supongo, y aunque ya tenemos los implantes, no me atrevo a abrirlos hasta que este segura por completo de que todo esta resuelto. Espero que pronto os podamos ensenhar sus nuevos procesadores N5.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Por ahora, unas fotos, para que siempre nos acordemos de sus primeros implantes, los Freedoms de hombre aranha,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5386693568/" title="freedom by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/5386693568_b14d106620.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="freedom" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5386692804/" title="luca with freedom by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5211/5386692804_3be0d1aea1.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="luca with freedom" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8400382855365643325?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/8400382855365643325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=8400382855365643325' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8400382855365643325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/8400382855365643325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/drunk-of-superheroes.html' title='Drunk with superheroes'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5386089261_332983c9a8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6567976088226008896</id><published>2011-01-23T20:48:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T21:07:55.299-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow</title><content type='html'>I love when it has stopped snowing and the sun comes out. Everything has so much light because the snow reflects everywhere and the texture of the snow is so special, not annoying like rain water can be. After playing with the sleigh and with Luca, I decided it was time to go home and get my camera out without destroying it. Here are a couple of shots I like. Now if I really knew how to use this wonderful camera and how to take pictures it would be so much better. I have heard about this place in a blog where they teach online courses of photography but it is so popular that recently it is all booked up. I will keep my eyes peeled to see if I can get it and discover all the possibilities I have with this camera ...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me encanta cuando para de nevar y de repente sale el sol. Todo tiene tanta luz porque se refleja en laa nieve y la textura de la nieve es tan especial, no desagradable como cuando te mojas por completo por el agua de lluvia. Despues de jugar un rato con el trineo y con Luca, decidi entrar a por mi camara y usarla sin cargarmela. Aqui pongo un par de fotos que me gustan. Ahora, si supiera usar esta camara maravillosa y si supiera hacer fotos seria tanto mejor...He oido sobre un curso de fotografia online en un blog pero es tan popular que siempre esta el cupo lleno. Me mantendre atenta a ver si me puedo apuntar y descubrir las maravillosas posibilidades de esta camara que tengo...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5382686035/" title="snow walk by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5288/5382686035_7d355c149d.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="snow walk" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5382687213/" title="walk by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5285/5382687213_f60aaeb713.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="walk" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;And as a side note, I wanted to thank you all who read my blog and those who also leave comments, because it totally re-energizes me to enjoy doing it and to look forward to many more blogging stories...thank you...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y nota a parte, queria daros las gracias a todos los que leeis mi blog y a aquellos que ademas dejan comentarios, porque me anima mucho y me hacer que disfrute de escribir en el blog un monton y estoy deseando continuar con mis historias en este blog...gracias...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6567976088226008896?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6567976088226008896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6567976088226008896' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6567976088226008896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6567976088226008896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/snow.html' title='Snow'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5288/5382686035_7d355c149d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-413062999821897710</id><published>2011-01-18T21:02:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-18T22:38:39.930-06:00</updated><title type='text'>yuhu!</title><content type='html'>It has been so long since I last wrote that I had trouble remembering how to do it!&lt;br /&gt;I have taken a break from everything, how wonderful! I have sewn some, to the request of family members but other than that, I have enjoyed my holidays with my family, done a lot of sightseeing, enjoyed watching lots of movies and not much more. What a great feeling not having anything bugging my head, although, that is not 100% true. There is always something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hace tanto desde la ultima vez que escribi que ya ni me acuerdo de como hacerlo! He tomado un descanso de todo, que maravilla! He cosido algo, porque me lo ha pedido mi familia pero mas alla, he disfrutado de las vacaciones en familia, hecho mucho turismo, disfrutado de ver muchas pelis y mucho mas. Que bien no tener nada dandome vueltas en la cabeza, aunque eso no es cierto del todo. Siempre hay algo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made a cover for my mom's new kindle. We had a kindle fever around here and it was a total hit. The cover thing was useful and a nice idea, I just wish I had taken a picture of it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hice una funda para el lector de mi mami. Hubo una fiebre del kindle por aqui y fue todo un exito. La funda es muy util y fue una gran idea, solo me hubiera gustado haberle hecho una foto...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, just to start again, a few snapshots of these days...oh happy days :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bueno, y solo para empezar, unas fotos de estos dias...que felices :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5368638127/" title="movie by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5004/5368638127_f170b8dd07.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="movie" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5369248476/" title="walk by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5129/5369248476_cf5b6ff669.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="walk" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5368639703/" title="3 kings turned into reindeers by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5368639703_91f1553c5b.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="3 kings turned into reindeers" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is what Luca asked Santa for, a skeleton...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y esto es lo que Luca le pidio a Papa Noel: un esqueleto...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5369250184/" title="the skeleton by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5369250184_2999e3c8ec.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="the skeleton" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-413062999821897710?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/413062999821897710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=413062999821897710' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/413062999821897710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/413062999821897710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/yuhu.html' title='yuhu!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5004/5368638127_f170b8dd07_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5798657676698781212</id><published>2010-12-10T11:57:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-10T12:05:00.454-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ornaments</title><content type='html'>I have been entertained making new Christmas ornaments. I decided to get inspired by Japanese cartoons. This is what I came up with:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;He estado entretenida haciendo nuevas decoraciones del arbol de Navidad. Decidi inspirarme en dibujitos Japoneses. Esto es lo que me salio:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5249597648/" title="beary by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5249597648_90c7f888f4.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="beary" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5248993409/" title="owly by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5085/5248993409_37eaac375f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="owly" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5249598342/" title="froggy by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5249598342_0fb8674b99.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="froggy" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another new thing I have been making lately are headbands. I love wearing these kinds of hair bands and they are not too hard to make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Otra cosa que he estado haciendo ultimamente son cintas para la cabeza. Me encanta ponermelas y no son muy dificiles de hacer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5249606616/" title="headbands by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5047/5249606616_ca7ec99d2f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="headbands" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obviouly these pictures were not taken with my new camera, I had a problem with the charger and I haven't resolved it yet and I am annoyed!! but I hope that soon I will be able to use it again, it is a pleasure!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obviamente estas fotos no se tomaron con mi camara nueva, tuve un problema con el cargador que aun no se ha resuleto y me tiene un poco harta!! pero espero que pronto pueda volver a usarla, es un placer!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5798657676698781212?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5798657676698781212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5798657676698781212' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5798657676698781212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5798657676698781212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/12/ornaments.html' title='ornaments'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5249597648_90c7f888f4_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7312202353836573634</id><published>2010-12-03T09:46:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T09:59:01.447-06:00</updated><title type='text'>owlmania</title><content type='html'>And I have been enjoying a very relaxing thanksgiving holiday with my family. It was great and Luca concluded that I sleep a lot. Meaning I had a chance to do so! The only craft I managed to bring and make was these owls, Christmas tree decorations along with some of my good old fabric stars. They will make for cute little Christmas presents.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y he estado disfrutando de unas vacaciones por accion de gracias con mi familia muy relajadas. Estuvo muy bien y Luca concluyo que yo duermo mucho. Lo que quiere decir que tuve la oportunidad de hacerlo! La unica manualidad que pude llevarme fueron estos buhos, que son decoraciones del arbol de navidad y algunas estrellitas de tela. Seran unos regalitos muy bonitos de Navidad.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5228717767/" title="DSCN8025 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5209/5228717767_25b348a955.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN8025" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5229338592/" title="Christmas stars by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5229338592_029fee22ff.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Christmas stars" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7312202353836573634?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7312202353836573634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7312202353836573634' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7312202353836573634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7312202353836573634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/12/owlmania.html' title='owlmania'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5209/5228717767_25b348a955_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6616523029888815427</id><published>2010-11-21T23:48:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-21T23:53:24.894-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Hoot</title><content type='html'>What is up with owls and Christmas?? what is the relationship and what makes them so christmasy looking? Don't know, not sure, it's a cultural thing??? maybe? Anyway, following the wave I made a Christmas tree ornament following &lt;a href="http://juicy-bits.typepad.com/files/owl-ornament-1.pdf"&gt;this tutorial&lt;/a&gt;. It is a cute ornament, I have to say. I love that I can mix different bright colors and get a very different looking owl. This won't be the last one.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Que pasa con los buhos y la Navidad? cual es la relacion entre ellos y que les hace tan navidenhos? No lo se, no estoy segura, es algu cultural?? quizas? Bueno, de todos modos he querido seguir esa misma tendencia y he hecho una decoracion del arbol con forma de buho siguiendo &lt;a href="http://juicy-bits.typepad.com/files/owl-ornament-1.pdf"&gt;este turorial&lt;/a&gt;. La verdad es que es mono. Me gusta que se pueden combinar diferentes colres brillantes y te salen buhos con pintas distintas. No sera el ultimo que haga.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5197064467/" title="DSC_0106 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5197064467_e069a6fd27.jpg" width="294" height="500" alt="DSC_0106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6616523029888815427?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6616523029888815427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6616523029888815427' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6616523029888815427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6616523029888815427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/11/hoot.html' title='Hoot'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5197064467_e069a6fd27_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6951822541156958750</id><published>2010-11-18T22:51:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-18T22:58:18.982-06:00</updated><title type='text'>New camera!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am so happy!! I finally bought myself a wonderful camera!! I have been suffering the results of my previous camera for years now, every picture was a pain! the only ones that were worth something were outdoors when the weather was a bit cloudy but with lots of light. Other than that, 99% of my pictures were taken indoors and most of them were just...pitiful. But that era has ended and I feel so happy!!! And I will share with you two things, one, the green eyes (and dirty mouth) of my favorite little boy, and second, a new bag I just finished. Nice quality isn't it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Estoy tan feliz!! Por fin me compre una camara increible!! He estado sufriendo las consecuancias de tener la camara que tenia antes durante anhos, cada foto era un sufrimiento! las unicas que merecian la pena eran las de fuera cundo estaba algo nublado pero habia bastante luz. Por lo demas, el 99% de mis fotos eran dentro de casa y la mayoria eran...penosas. Pero esa era acabo y estoy feliz!!! Y compartire con vosotros dos cosas, una, los ojos verdes (y cara sucia) de mi ninho favorito, y la segunda, la ultima bolsa que acabo de terminar. Que buena calidad no??&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5188435285/" title="DSC_0094 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5188435285_4724526ecd.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="DSC_0094" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5189035186/" title="girl bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1026/5189035186_19b821bc0e.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="girl bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6951822541156958750?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6951822541156958750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6951822541156958750' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6951822541156958750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6951822541156958750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-camera.html' title='New camera!!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5188435285_4724526ecd_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5508161643814258816</id><published>2010-11-17T12:10:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T12:10:00.487-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Bags / new designs</title><content type='html'>I have been working on two new bags. The first one took me forever to make it. I followed Denyse Schmidt new book on purses and I have to say, it was HARD!!! and it used lots and lots of fabric and interfacing. I think I won't make any more of those for now. The second one is similar to another one I made a long time ago and that I use every single day. I love the design and I think this one came out pretty nice. I improved it compared to mine making it more sturdy and finishing it better. I can tell that experience makes a difference! I hope you like them!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;He estado trabajando en dos bolsas nuevas. La primera me llevo muchisimo tiempo. He seguido el patron del ultimo libro de bolsos de Denyse Schmidt y la verdad es que fue DIFICILISIMO!!!! y use un monton de tela y de entretela. Creo que no voy a hacer mas de esos por ahora. El segundo es similar a uno que hice hace tiempo y que lo uso todos los dias. Me encanta el disenho y me salio bastante bien. Lo he mejorado comparandolo con el mio, lo hice mas duro y lo acabe mejor. La verdad es que la expriencia hace mucho! Espero que os gusten!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172504922/" title="Big African themed bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5172504922_0e9ac749f2.jpg" width="436" height="500" alt="Big African themed bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5171894973/" title="Asian everyday purse by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5171894973_9c8dcabaf4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Asian everyday purse" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5508161643814258816?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5508161643814258816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5508161643814258816' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5508161643814258816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5508161643814258816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/11/bags-new-designs.html' title='Bags / new designs'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5172504922_0e9ac749f2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4535304978658517432</id><published>2010-11-13T16:02:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T12:29:52.897-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Pirate cake</title><content type='html'>And here is his second cake, I love it!!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y aqui esta su segunda tarta, me encanta!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172469169/" title="DSCN7961 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5172469169_0e3660d1d2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN7961" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4535304978658517432?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4535304978658517432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4535304978658517432' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4535304978658517432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4535304978658517432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/11/prate-cake.html' title='Pirate cake'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5172469169_0e3660d1d2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6409672993663712948</id><published>2010-11-13T11:32:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-13T11:53:31.676-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Birthday parties</title><content type='html'>Luca has just turned 5! I don't know how to manage to make more than one party every year. This time, we had one with his friends from school and siblings, the second one at school with all of his classmates and teachers and today is the last one with all our Spanish speaking friends. So he has been celebrating all week long, he has also gotten 2 cakes and cupcakes. I have made the cakes for him, with fondant and I also made him a pinhata than is being recycled today for the second party out of school. You can imagine how much I have been working making sure the boy has fun all the way and reminding him how important it is that he is a big 5 year old boy!!! He sure is a happy one and he also makes me proud. During his first party, he greeting all his guests, even though he sees them every day, he escorted them to the basement and he let them have a piece of cake before him. I was impressed, he is a real gentleman, I guess those southern genes are there!!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luca ya tiene 5 anhos! No se como me las apanho pero cada anho lo celebramos varias veces. Esta vez, tuvimos una fiesta con sus companheros del cole con sus hermanos, otra en el cole con todos sus companheros de clase y con las profesoras y la ultima con los amigos de habla hispana. Asi que ha estado celebrandolo toda la semana, ha tenido dos tartas y magdalenas. Le he hecho las tartas yo con fondant y tambien una pinhata que la voy a reciclar hoy en la segunda fiesta fuera del cole. Os podeis imaginar cuanto he estado trabajando asegurandome que el ninho se lo pase super y recordandole lo importante que es el ser un ninho grande de 5 anhos!!! Esta feliz y tambien hace que me sienta muy orgullosa de el. Durante la primera fiesta, saludo a cada uno de sus invitados segun llegaban, aunque los ve a dirario, los acompanho hasta el sotano y les ofrecio tarta a elllos antes que el. Me impresiono, es un caballero!, supongo que esos genes del sur estan ahi!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172440578/" title="greeting by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5172440578_720d0f3073.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="greeting" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5171838321/" title="the birthday boy by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5171838321_de7068c31e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="the birthday boy" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172439998/" title="spiderman cake by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5172439998_0bb374a49a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="spiderman cake" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172441980/" title="I'm 5 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5172441980_13e741d575.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="I'm 5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172442508/" title="pinhata by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5172442508_273485a2ff.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="pinhata" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5171839585/" title="birthday friends by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5171839585_b62bcbe595.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="birthday friends" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5172455626/" title="birthday at school by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5172455626_8e0fd354b3.jpg" width="392" height="500" alt="birthday at school" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am proud of my latest cake, it is a pirate cake, I will post pictures of it after this last party today. I am getting better at this fondant business!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to all of those who have greeted Luca (and myself) for this special day. We are sooo happy to be sooo lucky!! Happy weekend!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Estoy orgullosa de mi ultima tarta, es de pirata, pondre las fotos cuando acabe la fiesta de hoy. Me salen mejor estas tartas de fondant!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gracias a todos lo que os habeis acordado y felicitado a Luca (y a mi) por este dia tan especial. Estamos muy contentos y nos sentimos muy afortunados!!! Feliz fin de semana!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6409672993663712948?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6409672993663712948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6409672993663712948' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6409672993663712948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6409672993663712948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/11/birthday-parties.html' title='Birthday parties'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5172440578_720d0f3073_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-3529110589686316308</id><published>2010-10-28T16:55:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-28T16:59:05.888-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Personalized towels</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;My friend from Florida had a baby and I wanted to send them something that was quick but everlasting. A good friend of mine had made towels for when Luca was born, personalized with his name cross stitched. Obviously I can't do that, but I can appliqué some towels for this new baby boy. I am glad his mommy liked them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mi amiga de Florida acaba de tener un bebe y le queria regalar algo que pudiera hacer rapido pero que le durara. Una buena amiga mia le hizo toallas personalizadas a Luca cuando nacio, pero hechas a punto de cruz. Obviamente yono soy capaz de hacer eso pero si que les puedo anhadir un aplique a estas toallas para este bebito. Me alegro de que a su mama le hayan gustado.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5116425970/" title="DSCN7510 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1334/5116425970_d60aa8e5bb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN7510" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-3529110589686316308?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/3529110589686316308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=3529110589686316308' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3529110589686316308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/3529110589686316308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/personalized-towels.html' title='Personalized towels'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1334/5116425970_d60aa8e5bb_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4506949814723391064</id><published>2010-10-27T20:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-27T20:38:00.285-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The fall</title><content type='html'>I love the fall, as all the leaves change so quickly in the trees and one is looking for different colors around, especially as I drove from here to there. Amazing the shades of reds, oranges , greens and yellows. It is a pity that they disappear so quickly but that has its charm as well. We look forward to seeing them and then plop, they are gone!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me encanta el otonho, mientras las hojas cambian rapidamente de color y yo me pongo a buscar los colores que me rodean, sobretodo cuando conduzco.  Son increibles los tonos de rojos, naranjas, amarillos y verdes. Es una pena que desaparezcan tan pronto pero eso tambien le da su encanto. Estamos deseando verlso y de repente plop, desaparecieron!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5116427756/" title="DSCN7530 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1113/5116427756_a73a7c97cd.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN7530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Luca also dropped something, his hair. He thinks he looks cool :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Luca tambien se le cayo algo, su pelo. Se ve muy guay  :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5116427134/" title="DSCN7527 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1411/5116427134_309f22ab2f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN7527" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4506949814723391064?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4506949814723391064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4506949814723391064' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4506949814723391064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4506949814723391064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall.html' title='The fall'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1113/5116427756_a73a7c97cd_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7432590121099485356</id><published>2010-10-25T20:30:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-25T20:38:49.005-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cat</title><content type='html'>I am a biologist that never quite had a connection with animals...only with plants. I had birds when I was a kid, canaries, but the truth is that my poor mom had to take care of them, I didn't even think of a name to give them....and we always had a pond with fish. Animals you don't need to touch. I wonder why I am like this. Luca is the same way, he rather stay away from them, and I can't blame him, it's in his genes. I do love to draw and look at birds, I have a calendar of birds right in front of me to inspire me, and one of these days, I will paint one in that piece of furniture that I started painting some time ago. As for now, I am happy with my new acquisition, a colorful ceramic cat from Mexico. I got it around here so I am not even sure if it's from Mexico but it looks like it. I like when I find little things like this that bring some happiness to my home.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Soy biologa y nunca he tenido una conexion con los animales...solo con las plantas. Tuve pajaritos cuando era pequenha, pero la verdad es que mi pobre madre se ocupaba de ellos, ni siquiera les puse nombres...y siempre tuvimos peces en un estanque. Animales que no hace falta tocarlos. Me pregunto porqeu sere asi. Luca es igual, prefiere estar alejado de ellos, y no me estranha, lo tiene en los genes. Me encanta dibujar pajaritos, tengo un calendario de pajaros en frente mio que me inspira, y uno de estos dias, pintare uno en este mueble que comence a pintar hace mucho tiempo. Por ahora, me alegro de tener mi nueva adquisicion, un gatito muy coloridode ceramica de Mexico. Lo compre por aqui asi que no se si ni siquiera es de Mexico, pero lo parece. Me gusta cuando encuentro cositas asi que alegran mi hogar.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5115823783/" title="DSCN7490 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5115823783_646cb2ec22.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN7490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7432590121099485356?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7432590121099485356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7432590121099485356' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7432590121099485356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7432590121099485356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/cat.html' title='Cat'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5115823783_646cb2ec22_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1689318384126256756</id><published>2010-10-21T12:01:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-21T12:01:00.085-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Brown bag</title><content type='html'>I made this bag some time ago, but I had only taken terrible pictures of it using a terrible background. I retook them today and here it is! I love the colors of this fabric and how cheerful it looks. I am just debating whether I should add some velcro to it...any thoughts?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hice este bolso hace un tiempo, pero habia hecho unas fotos muy malas de el usando un fondo terrible. Las volvi a tomar y aqui estan! Me encantan los colores de la tela y lo alegre que se ve. Estoy ahora pensando si deberia anhadirle un velcro para el cierre. Alguna sugerencia?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5099442957/" title="brown bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1426/5099442957_24719eb982.jpg" width="500" height="451" alt="brown bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5100042130/" title="brown bag in use by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5100042130_5e01fb1d75.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="brown bag in use" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1689318384126256756?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1689318384126256756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1689318384126256756' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1689318384126256756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1689318384126256756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/brown-bag.html' title='Brown bag'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1426/5099442957_24719eb982_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-54489276949503911</id><published>2010-10-19T21:06:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-19T21:17:59.693-05:00</updated><title type='text'>more goodies</title><content type='html'>I continue creating while taking care of many other things. My space is becoming crowded and that blocks me, but what can I do! Just try to be organized...a genetic challenge for me :)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sigo creando mientras me ocupo de muchas otras cosas. Mi lugar esta cada dia mas lleno de cosas y me bloqueo, pero que puedo hacer! Solo intentar ser mas organizada...un desafio genetico para mi :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I made some palmiers for the first time the other day using puff pastry. They came out really yummy and kids like them! I want to get back to cooking more, maybe now for thanksgiving, I can try some pumpkin desserts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hice unas palmeritas por primera vez el otro dia usando hojaldre. Me salieron ricas y a los ninhos les encantan! Quiero volver a cocinar mas, quizas ahora por accion de gracias, pueda probar a hacer algun postre con calabaza.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5097946265/" title="palmeritas by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5097946265_8e97eff8a2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="palmeritas" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And this is my latest creationg, a shopping bag.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y esta es mi ultima creacion, una bolsa de compra:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5097945855/" title="bolso rojo by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1153/5097945855_9be13c0361.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="bolso rojo" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-54489276949503911?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/54489276949503911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=54489276949503911' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/54489276949503911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/54489276949503911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/more-goodies.html' title='more goodies'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5097946265_8e97eff8a2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6938599703457887596</id><published>2010-10-16T11:40:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-16T12:21:06.020-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Building up the business</title><content type='html'>hi there!&lt;div&gt;It seems like lately all I do is spending money in things with no return!!! well I guess that is what investments are about. The final product will come out later, I hope. It is just hard to work in my house with such a small space and soooo many things around me, but for now, I will make it work!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Luca has decided he will be a start wars character for Halloween. He learned about star wars in Madison when we went there for testing. He really has never seen much any of the movies, but he thinks those blue swords (lifesavers) are cool. I got him a costume that is way too big and he looks sooo funny with it!!! He loves dressing up, today he was clark kent again, so funny, with no pants, rain boots, the red thing like underwear that superman wears, the blue top and cape and then he put a tie, a jacket and glasses I got him at the dollar store to look like clark kent. He looked sooo funny!!! but he quickly transformed into superman and I couldn't snap a pic!!! bummer. Now he is being batman and he is wearing an 80s looking belt, funny too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now I have been making presents for my friends kids. Some of them are turning 5, others are just babies or still in mommy's belly. I think this personalized towels make a nice gift. I received one that was cross stitched by a good friend of mine from Brazil and we used the every single day!!! And I remember my friend every day at bath time. It's great. I hope they remember us like that too when they use them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I also made a grocery shopping bag with burlap. I like the look it gives, and I think many farmer market people will like it too. With this wonderful weather of fall, it is hard to stay inside and sew but I need to find the time and energy to do it!!!  I know that in the winter though, I will have plenty of opportunities of not wanting to go outside with the cold!!! So hopefully my productivity will increase during the winter days.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wishing you all a wonderful fall weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;¡hola !&lt;br /&gt;¡Parece como si últimamente todo lo que lo hago es gastar dinero en cosas sin obtener nada a cambio!!! bueno, creo que asi son las inversiones. El producto final saldrá más adelante, eso espera. ¡Cuesta trabajar en mi casa con un espacio tan pequeño y tantas cosas a mi alrededor, pero para ahora, hare que funcione. Luca ha decidido que él será un personaje de las guerras de las galaxias para Halloween. Aprendió sobre la Guerra de las Galaxias en Madison cuando fuimos allí para las prueba. Él nunca ha visto películas, pero piensa que esas espadas azules son una chulada. Le conseguí un traje que es demasiado grande y se ve tan divertido en él!!! Le encanta disfrazarse, hoy era clark Kent otra vez, tan divertido, sin los pantalones, las botas de lluvia, la cosa roja esa como calzoncillo que usa superman, la capa y el top azul y entonces se puso una corbata, una chaqueta y las gafas que conseguí en la tienda del dólar para parecerse a Clark Kent. ¡Estaba tan gracioso!!! pero se transformó rápidamente en superman y me dio tiempo de hacerle una foto!!! que pena. Ahora él está de batman y se ha puesto un cinturon de los 80, muy divertido también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora estoy haciendo regalos para los ninhos de mis amigos. Una tiene inco anhos,  otros son bebés o aún en el vientre de la mami. Pienso que esto de las toallas personalizadas son un regalo bonito. Recibí uno que era cosido a punto de cruz por una buean amiga mía de Brasil y las utilizamos todos los días!!! Y recuerdo a mi amiga a diario a la hora del baño. Es perfecto. Espero que nos recuerden asi también cuando las usen. También hice un bolso de compras de mercado con tela arpillera. Me gusta como queda, y pienso que a mucha gente que frecuenta el mercado también le gustaria. ¡Con este tiempo tan maravilloso de otonho, cuesta quedarse dentro de casas y coser pero necesito encontrar el momento y la energía de hacerlo!!! ¡Sé que en el invierno sin embargo, tendré un montón de oportunidades sin necesidad de salir afuera con el frío!!! Esperemos que mi productividad aumente durante los días de invierno.&lt;br /&gt;¡Deseándoos a todos un fin de semana otonhal maravilloso me despido!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5086401291/" title="farmers market bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5086401291_c4195332a8.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="farmers market bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5087000496/" title="toalla camila by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/5087000496_56a468daea.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="toalla camila" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5086405843/" title="toalla regalo by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5086405843_8f30674712.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="toalla regalo" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6938599703457887596?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6938599703457887596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6938599703457887596' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6938599703457887596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6938599703457887596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/building-up-business.html' title='Building up the business'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5086401291_c4195332a8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5665781981929589203</id><published>2010-10-10T22:39:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T13:04:42.288-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Flamenco</title><content type='html'>After our return from Wisconsin, Luca has been back to his regular school days and I have been trying to play catch up. It is funny how trips will change your schedule and also I guess the change on season, when you need to remember what you wore last winter and you need to get it out, regardless of allergy attacks...well it seems like is still sick with something else and I just can't wait until we are able to have a "normal" life. At least now we have the wonderful company of his grandparents that are not only great company but such a big help for both of us! It is OK to be sick when you have someone else helping out. All the sickness better be done for the winter though!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been making flamenco aprons. I am actually starting to sell them and it looks like more people really enjoy them. I make them for kids and I just made the first one for adult. This one took double the amount of fabric and work, especially because I made it and I thought it looked to skimpy and had to add up to look more like a real dress. I like how it turned out, it is heavy with so many ruffles but I bet it puts anyone in the mood to cook some tapas or some paella or just to have fun in the kitchen! I hope the one who receives it will enjoy it with her brand new husband! I am getting ready to make another for him, who will that turn out? We shall see...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Después de regresar de Wisconsin, Luca ha vuelto a su día tipico de clases y yo he estado tratando de ponerme al día. Es curioso cómo los viajes cambian tu horario y también influye el cambio de temporada, cuando necesito recordar lo que me ponia el invierno pasado y hay que sacarlo, a pesar de los ataques de alergia que me dan... Luca parece que todavía está enfermo con otra cosa y yo ya tengo ganas de que volvamos a nuestra vida "normal". Por lo menos ahora tenemos la maravillosa compañía de sus abuelos que no sólo noa acompañan mucho, sino que ademas son una gran ayuda para nosotros dos! Se puede estar enfermo cuando tienes a alguien que te ayude. Aun asi, sera mejor que todas las enfermedades se acaben por este invierno!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He estado haciendo delantales flamencos. De hecho, estoy empezando a venderlos y parece que a la gente realmente les gustan. Las hago para niñas y acabo de hacer el primero para mujer. Éste me ocupó el doble de cantidad de tela y de trabajo, sobre todo porque lo hice y pensé que parecía escaso y tuve que añadirle tela para que se pareciese más a un vestido real. Me gusta cómo quedó, es pesado, con mucho volante , pero apuesto a los que lo usen les pone con ánimos para cocinar paella o unas tapas o simplemente para divertirse en la cocina! Espero que la que lo reciba lo disfrute con su marido! Me estoy preparando para hacer otro para él, como saldra? Vamos a ver que tal ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5071927887/" title="flamenco apron by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5071927887_dbdae32421.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="flamenco apron" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5665781981929589203?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5665781981929589203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5665781981929589203' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5665781981929589203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5665781981929589203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/flamenco.html' title='Flamenco'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5071927887_dbdae32421_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1743226359464166096</id><published>2010-10-05T13:46:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T17:01:55.222-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Testing with bilateral implants</title><content type='html'>We just got back from our second visit to Wisconsin. Luca started last year participating in a bilateral implant study. They want to know how children with bilateral implants localize sound and how they hear. Luca did much better than last year, as his level of communication is sooo far away from what it was a year ago. Still it was a hard task, as they were making him work for two days and in tasks that were not that easy for him. We always finish exhausted, but happy to have contributed to science. The best part was that we were staying with old friends and that make everything so much better! We are looking forward already for next year's visit.&lt;div&gt;I saw a lady who had bilateral cochlear implants. She was in her 60s and she had one of them for 14 years and the other for 7.  She said that she felt the emotion of seeing a child with cochlear implants and a parent making sure he learns to use them and get the most profit out of them because she remembers how hard it was for her. She said her parents did all they could and she was so thankful for that but the CIs really changed her life as they made everything easier for her. She said I know he won't have to go through all the suffering that I had to go through. I am so happy for both of you and I know your son will appreciate it when he grows up. It was a wonderful feeling hearing those words, she made it all worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Acabamos de regresar de nuestra segunda visita a Wisconsin. Luca comenzó el año pasado a participar en un estudio de implantes bilaterales. Quieren saber cómo localizan el sonido los niños con implantes bilaterales y la forma en que escuchan. Luca lo hizo mucho mejor que el año pasado, ya que su nivel de comunicación es taaanto mejor de lo que era hace un año. Sin embargo, fue una tarea difícil, ya que le hacieron trabajar durante dos días y en cosas que no eran tan fáciles para él. Siempre acabamos agotados, pero felices de haber contribuido a la ciencia. Lo mejor de todo era que estábamos en casa de viejos amigos y hacen que todo sea mucho mejor! Estamos deseando que llegue la visita del próximo año.&lt;br /&gt;Conoci a una señora que tenía implantes cocleares bilaterales. Ella tenia unos 60 años y tenía uno desde hace 14 años y el otro desde hace 7. Ella dijo que se sentía emocionada de ver a un niño con implantes cocleares y con una madre que se asegure de que aprenda a utilizarlos y obtener el máximo beneficio de ellos porque recuerda lo difícil que fue para ella. Ella me dijo que sus padres hicieron todo lo posible y estaba muy agradecida por eso, pero el implante coclear habia cambiado realmente su vida, ya que hizo todo más fácil para ella. Me dijo que yo sé que Luca no tendrá que pasar por todo el sufrimiento que ella paso. Me dijo, estoy muy feliz por los dos y sé que su hijo se lo agradecerá cuando crezca. Fue un sentimiento maravilloso oír esas palabras, hizo que todo lo que hacemos valga la pena.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5054602215/" title="testing 1 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5054602215_f03fabf89a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="testing 1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5054608473/" title="testing by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/5054608473_ec7eb2e47a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="testing" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5054609997/" title="madison october 2010 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5054609997_14fc1c2bc3.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="madison october 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course, he loves going on stage! as always!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y por supuesto, le encanta subirse al escenario! como siempre!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.onetruemedia.com/share_view_player?p=c2ce99a975b07abae5ebaa" quality="high" scale="noscale" width="408" height="382" wmode="transparent" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT" flashvars="&amp;amp;p=c2ce99a975b07abae5ebaa&amp;amp;skin_id=701&amp;amp;host=http://www.onetruemedia.com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin:0px;font:12px/13px verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px;padding-bottom:15px;width:408px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onetruemedia.com/landing?&amp;amp;utm_source=emplay&amp;amp;utm_medium=txt2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;"&gt;Photo and video editing at &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;www.OneTrueMedia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1743226359464166096?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1743226359464166096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1743226359464166096' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1743226359464166096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1743226359464166096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/10/testing-with-bilateral-implants.html' title='Testing with bilateral implants'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5054602215_f03fabf89a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7583515882698668689</id><published>2010-09-23T12:34:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T21:40:59.925-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Productionnnnn</title><content type='html'>I am sewing sewing!! It is fun to try new patterns, I am even learning new techniques! and I am obsessed with sewing, that's all I do and all I think about. I have all these plans on my head, and it is fun to FINALLY use the many many fabrics that I have accumulated through the years...although it is hard to do sometimes, as I have attached to them in sentimental ways...and of course I always need a different color or type of fabric, so after all, I am visiting the fabric store a bit too much. If I only had a serger machine....then I would really go crazy sewing. I will get one eventually, in the future, but now, I have plenty of things to create, so I will do my best with what I have. Here are some of my creations:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Estoy cosiendo cosiendo! Es divertido probar patrones neuvos, incluso estoy aprendiendo tercnicas nuevas! y estoy obsesionada con la costura, es todo lo que hago y en lo que pienso. Tengo estos planes en la cabeza, y es divertido usar POR FIN todas las telas que he acumulados estos anhos...aunque a veces cuesta dejarlas ir, les he cogido carinho....y claro siempre necesito otra tela de otro color u otro tipo, asi que despues de todo, me paso la vida en la tienda de telas, un poco mas de lo debido. Si tuviera una maquina serger....entonces si me volveria loca cosiendo. Me comprare una algun dia, en un futuro, pero por ahora, tengo muchas cosas que crear, asi que hare lo que pueda con lo que tengo. Aqui van algunas de mis creaciones:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5027886967/" title="girl bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5027886967_6deed80794.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="girl bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5027887589/" title="girl bag 2 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5027887589_2513a1b908.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="girl bag 2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5028504966/" title="coin ourse by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5028504966_fbd23cc8f1.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="coin ourse" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5027889677/" title="shopping bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5027889677_e4cef63a5c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="shopping bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and folded:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;y doblada:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5028506362/" title="shopping bag folded by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5028506362_3df0cbd5de.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="shopping bag folded" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What I have noticed with this focus on sewing is that I have left some of my other hobbies a bit to the sides...or rather abandoned for now. Such as cooking, I do cook, of course, but not nearly as much as some other times and I hate that...painting, that has stopped for now, playing the guitar...that stopped almost a year ago...blogging that comes and goes. But I am enjoying myself, going to places, taking Luca to places and at least doing one thing that I enjoy like sewing. Anyway, while trying to get back to some of that (I was actually making a bread pudding with leftover hamburger buns) and all these thoughts came to my mind and my conclusions is...it is hard to do so many different things at once, like Martha Stewart does. Unless you don't have a life, of course. And I'm not willing to sacrifice that. I can see a lot of my dad in myself, the man with the multiple constant interchangeable hobbies. Always trying something different with a passion and with revelations until you try something else with the same passion and a new revelation. Happy birthday dad, the realization that I'm a bit like you and the fact that I'm like this is also an important part of my life, that's my birthday present to you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lo que he notado con esta obsesion con la costura es que me he dejado algunas de mis otras aficiones un poco de lado ... o más bien abandonadas por el momento. Como por ejemplo cocinar, yo cocino, por supuesto, pero no tanto como otras veces y no me gusta no hacerlo... la pintura, que la he dejado por ahora, tocar la guitarra ... que lo deje hace casi un año ... blogear que viene y va. Pero me lo estoy pasando bien, voy a lugares, lleva a Luca a lugares y por lo menos mantengo un hobbi que me gusta, como la costura. De todas formas, tratando de volver a hacer algo de todo esto (en realidad estaba haciendo un budín de pan con restos de pan de hamburguesas) y justo pense en todo esto y llegue a la conclusion siguiente ... es dificil hacer tantas cosas a la vez, como hace Martha Stewart. A menos que no se tenga vida, por supuesto. Y no estoy dispuesto a sacrificar eso. Puedo ver una gran parte de mi padre en mí misma, el hombre de las múltiples aficiones constantes e intercambiables. Siempre intentando algo diferente con pasion y con una revelacion hasta que pruebas algo nuevo con la misma pasion y una nueva revelacion. Papá feliz cumpleaños, la realización de que soy un poco como tú y que ademas el ser asi sea una parte importante de mi vida, es mi regalo de cumpleaños para ti.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7583515882698668689?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7583515882698668689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7583515882698668689' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7583515882698668689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7583515882698668689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/09/productionnnnn.html' title='Productionnnnn'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5027886967_6deed80794_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7998041533777691615</id><published>2010-09-19T11:16:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-23T12:08:46.050-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sewing machine</title><content type='html'>Sewing machine, that's not what I use, I mean I do, but that is how I call myself. I have been sewing sewing sewing non stop. I have a new project going, and for that, I have lots of sewing to do. I am making new things, bags, aprons, headbands, and I am pushing myself to be creative everyday. I take it as a job, and so far, I am enjoying myself. I even got labels for my things, "polvoron de limon" of course with accents and all. Where will this take me? Not sure, but it does keep me quite busy for now. Not that I wasn't busy before, but that keeps me busier and therefore, I am being a bit more organized with my time, more productive I would say. You know how it goes, the less time you have, the more efficiently you use it. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt; Una maquina de coser, no es lo que uso, bueno si, pero es asi como me llamo. He estado cosiendo cosiendo cosiendo sin parar. Tengo un proyecto nuevo, y por eso, tengo mucho que coser. Estoy haciendo cosas nuevas, bolsos, delantales, diademas, y me estoy esforzando en ser creativa todos los dias. Lo tomo como un trabajo, y de momento, lo estoy disfrutando. Incluso hice etiquetas para mis cosas, "polvoron de limon" incluso con acentos. Donde me llevara esto? No lo se, pero lo que esta claro es que me mantiene ocupada. No es que no lo estuviera antes, pero ahora lo estoy mas y por lo tanto estoy mas organizada con mi tiempo, diria que mas productiva. Ya sabeis como son las cosas, cuanto menos tiempo tienes, lo usas de manera mas eficiente. &lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010734610/" title="apron by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5010734610_c762e0c0cd.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="apron" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Other than that, things are nice around here. Luca is still getting all dressed up with different costumes every day, and he is painting, making crafts, coloring, cutting and stapling all day long. He almost doesn't watch tv and it has turned out really good to develop his imagination. I am so happy he enjoys his time like that. Today, I bought him a pirate fabric and made himpajama shorts. When I finished them he was already in bed, so I have put them on so that he sees them in the morning when he wakes up, what a surprise!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;A parte de eso, las cosas van bien por aqui. Luca sigue disfrazandose con todos sus disfraces todos los dias, y pinta, hace manualidades, colorea, corta y grapa todo el dia. Casi no ve la tele y ha resultado bueno para que de vuelo a su imaginacion, Estoy contenta de que disfrute haciendo esas cosas. Hoy, le compre una tela de piratas y le hice unos pantalones cortos de pijama. Cuando los he acabado como ya estaba dormido, se los he puesto para que manahana cuando se despierte se los vea, que sorpresa!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010734138/" title="ninja by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5010734138_8916d4d969.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="ninja" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010128683/" title="ladybug by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5010128683_2c67e64002.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="ladybug" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010128263/" title="cowboy by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5010128263_8d6a7b299a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="cowboy" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;And this city during the Fall is the city of festivals. I couldn't believe there would be sooo much to do! Because it is not like that all year, just this time of the year. And you really need to plan your weekends, pick and choose among the million things there are to do. It is so nice! This weekend we went to the glow of a hot air balloon race that was happening at a park nearby. It was so beautiful seeing all those balloons lighting up. And we also enjoyed a free carnival in my city. We better enjoy it before the cold catches up with us!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y en esta ciudad durante el otonho es la ciudad de los festivales. No me podia creer que hubiera tanto que hacer! Pero no es asi todo el anho, solo en esta epoca. Y la verdad es que tienes que planear los fines de semana, elegir bien entre millones de cosas para hacer. Da gusto! Este fin de semana fuimos a el evento en el que encienden los globos de aire caliente que estaba en un parque cernano a aqui.  Fue tan bonito verlos todos encendidos! Y tambien disfrutamos de una festival gratis de mi ciudad. Sera mejor que disfrutemos de todo esto antes de que nos pille el frio!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010735140/" title="balloon glow by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5010735140_776ba7d2c7.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="balloon glow" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010735514/" title="hot air! by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5010735514_003fefa1a3.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="hot air!" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5018215956/" title="warriors by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5018215956_affcac1f65.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="warriors" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/5010131353/" title="luca and his friend at the carnival by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5010131353_50d7589193.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="luca and his friend at the carnival" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7998041533777691615?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5010734610_c762e0c0cd_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-827252662311419131</id><published>2010-09-13T23:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-13T23:58:00.684-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New things</title><content type='html'>Things that I've seen:&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cosas que he visto:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981219719/" title="fox theater by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4981219719_8c0319a3d9.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="fox theater" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981824972/" title="bar by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/4981824972_fe832dc476.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="bar" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981220503/" title="mosaic by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4981220503_7c1a41b787.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="mosaic" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Things from my hands:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cosas de entre mis manos:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981220965/" title="rose polka dots by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/4981220965_334483b0cf.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="rose polka dots" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981221333/" title="dhalia by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4981221333_b993172063.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="dhalia" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981826610/" title="new bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4981826610_5e7c138856.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="new bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-827252662311419131?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4981219719_8c0319a3d9_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2365033049516581396</id><published>2010-09-11T23:27:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-11T23:54:48.858-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dressing up</title><content type='html'>I enjoy being at home with Luca. I haven't let him watch much tv lately and I think he is getting used to play by himself and entertain himself more often. Today, he took over one of his favorite corners of the house, the basket full of costumes. He loves dressing up like a super hero but he is up to whatever new he sees or he is introduced to. He has been learning about Samurais lately, he has also been learning about indians as he received his dad's indian's costume. He looks as good on it as his daddy did when he was a little guy. Today, we played knights and pirates. It looks like we are getting ready for Halloween.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disfruto quedandome en casa con Luca. No le dejo ver casi la tele ultimamente y creo que se esta acostumbrando a jugar mas solito y a entretenerse mas a menudo. Hoy, se lanzo a uno de sus rincones favoritos de la casa, la cesta llena de disfraces. Le encanta disfrazarse como un super heroe pero se apunta a lo que vea o lo que se le ensenhe. Ha estado aprendiendo sobre los Samurais ultimamente, tambien sobre los indios ya que recibio el disfraz de indio que pertenecio a su papa. Esta tan guapo con el como lo estaba su papa de pequenho. Hoy, jugamos a caballeros y a piratas. Parece que nos estamos preparando para Halloween.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981190043/" title="Japanese by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/4981190043_6dbe9a4e19.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="Japanese" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My little Japanese&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;My pequenho japonesito&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981190055/" title="indian by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/4981190055_a90e0e5495.jpg" width="313" height="500" alt="indian" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Good looking blonde Indian&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Indio guapo y rubio&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981190075/" title="clark kent by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/4981190075_3eb0d7c341.jpg" width="456" height="500" alt="clark kent" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Clark Kent before he becomes...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Clark Kent antes de convertirse en...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981190059/" title="now superman by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4981190059_b04785faac.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="now superman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Flying superman!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Superman volador!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981190089/" title="DSCN6961 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4981190089_db17c59ddf.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN6961" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The kringt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El caballero&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4981190097/" title="pirate by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4981190097_a1c70453dc.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="pirate" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The pirate with his treasure chest just found!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El pirata con su cofre del tesoro recien encontrado!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2365033049516581396?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2365033049516581396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2365033049516581396' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;These past weekend we had our family visiting. Luca was sooo excited to see them that he started laughing and ended up on the floor of the school when he saw his grandparents. It was really funny. We had a great time together and the weather was great too. We were lucky that there are a HUGE Japanese festival in town, at the botanical gardens while we were all together. We have all but Luca been to Japan and we have a special appreciation of this country and its culture. We really enjoyed our visit and so did Luca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Este fin de semana pasado tuvimos a nuestra familia de visita. Luca estaba tan emocionado de verlos que empezo a reirse y acabo en el suelo de la risa en el cole cuando vio a sus abuelos. Fue muy divertido. Nos lo pasamos super juntos y el tiempo nos acompanho. Tuvimos suerte de que justo habia un festival ENORME Japones en la ciudad, en el jardin botanico mientras estabamos todos juntos. Todos excepto Luca hemos estado en Japon y tenemos un aprecio especial de ese pais y de su cultura. Disfrutamos mucho de nuestra visita y Luca tambien.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969337115/" title="DSCN6829 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4969337115_0e84a6286a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN6829" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969336593/" title="DSCN6828 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4969336593_0dc689574c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN6828" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969947198/" title="DSCN6826 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/4969947198_cf3252e473.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN6826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969946622/" title="DSCN6808 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4969946622_5463ecfc4f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN6808" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969335101/" title="DSCN6802 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4109/4969335101_d681fa622e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN6802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969334625/" title="DSCN6789 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/4969334625_38b6bafd60.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN6789" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969334105/" title="DSCN6786 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4969334105_fd5ff4b24c.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN6786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969944592/" title="DSCN6781 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/4969944592_8fed046d46.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN6781" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969333031/" title="DSCN6774 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/4969333031_a9dfc73a0f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN6774" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4969943566/" title="DSCN6777 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/4969943566_d7f3952ed6.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN6777" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1115627867408647404?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1115627867408647404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1115627867408647404' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1115627867408647404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1115627867408647404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/09/japanese-festival.html' title='Japanese Festival'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4969337115_0e84a6286a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2665552945991207753</id><published>2010-08-28T20:05:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-28T20:51:03.140-05:00</updated><title type='text'>28</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Yes, today again, is 28. I have to say 27 was worse, but still 28 is the one we all remember. Four years ago life as we all knew it, stop being. When we thought we had it all under control, when we could see our lives till the very end, we realize, that is not how it works. Life comes and goes, someone willingly or unwillingly can steal it from you, and from those who loved you. And still, our brain has trouble understanding it. Or maybe it's our heart, it has trouble letting go. When my love had to go I felt like someone had come with a punching hole machine and got a chunk off my chest, and I still have it, and will always have it, the hole. In days like this, the air flows through reminding me of that emptiness and all the nervous system that surrounds the hole feels more sensitive, more in pain more alive and more dead. I have another hole, for my little boy, so that he doesn't have to have it, and who cannot quite understand yet what it means far far far away. In days like today it is good to feel my dear ones, my family, my dear friends, from all continents on Earth. We all have our holes and we share the same pain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sí, hoy de nuevo, es el 28. Tengo que decir que 27 fue peor, pero aún así 28 es la que todos recordamos. Hace cuatro años, la vida como todos la conocíamos, dejo de serlo. Cuando creíamos que lo teníamos todo bajo control, cuando podíamos ver nuestras vidas hasta el final, nos damos cuenta, que no es así como funciona. La vida viene y va, alguien queriendo o sin querer te la puede robar, y a aquellos que te querían. Y, aun así, nuestro cerebro tiene problemas para aceptarlo. O quiz&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;á&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; sea nuestro coraz&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ó&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;n, que no puede dejarlo ir. Cuando mi amor se tuvo que ir, sentí como si alguien hubiera venido con una máquina perforadora y me hubiera sacado un pedazo de mis entrañas, y todavía sigue así, y siempre lo seguirá, el agujero. En días como este, el aire fluye a través de el para recordarme ese vacío, y todo el sistema nervioso que rodea el agujero se siente más sensible, siente más el dolor, está más vivo y más muerto. Tengo otro agujero, por mi hijo, para que el no lo tenga, y porque no puede entender todavía lo que significa muy muy lejos. En días como hoy es bueno sentir cerca a mis seres queridos, mi familia, mis queridos amigos, de todos los continentes en la Tierra. Todos tenemos nuestros agujeros y compartimos el mismo dolor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4935955171/" title="eating squid IKA by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4935955171_1342d9197d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="eating squid IKA" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4936544416/" title="MAKUNEAWITHSWEETPOTATO by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4936544416_25661d0658.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="MAKUNEAWITHSWEETPOTATO" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2665552945991207753?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2665552945991207753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2665552945991207753' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2665552945991207753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2665552945991207753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/08/28.html' title='28'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4935955171_1342d9197d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4661126350443649428</id><published>2010-08-25T13:05:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T13:18:04.784-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fall is almost here</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4927245856/" title="leaves and sky by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4927245856_57a4b60375.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="leaves and sky" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The weather is getting so much nicer now. I have to say that I missed all the horrible days of heat, but now that the sun is lower and the temperatures are not too high and not too low is a good time to go out for a walk in the afternoons. Luca told me yesterday that he really liked those leaves, I thought it was pretty nice that he pointed it out, they did have a nice shape and looked so pretty against the sky.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El tiempo esta mejorando mucho ahora. Admito que me perdi los dias terribles de calor, pero ahora que el sol esta mas bajito y la temperatura no es tan alta ni tan baja es un buen momento para salir a pasear por las tardes. Ayer Luca me dijo que le gustaban estas hojas, pense que era curioso que me las ensenho, la verdad es que tenian una forma muy bonita y se veian preciosas contra el cielo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4927245520/" title="superman and batman by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4927245520_f7020d9269.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="superman and batman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I guess it's because he has been resting really well with his new Ikea curtains that I got him that darken the room really well, because for the past 3 days, he has been the ideal child. He has been playing so well, talking so nice, being so sweet all the time...it is so enjoyable when he is like this. He has been enjoying dressing up with his many superhero outfits. This time his was fighting with batman, although he is smiling for the picture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Supongo que sera porque ha esta doscansando mucho y muy bien porque las nuevas cortinas que le compre en Ikea oscurecen mucho la habitacion, porque durante los 3 ultimos dias, se ha portado como el ninhi ideal. Ha estado jugando tan bien, hablando tan bien, siendo tan mono todo el rato..es un gustazo cuando esta asi. Se ha divertido mucho disfrazandose con sus trajes de superheroe. Esta vez estaba luchando con batman, aunque para la foto sonrio.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;And since I have recharged my batteries with new positive energy, I have been doing handy work around my home, and some sewing including a new cushion for Luca's chair, so that he can actually reach to his plate more comfortably. It is actually a cover for two cushions that I had around the house. I loved using this fabric that I got once in Tennessee.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y como me he recargado las pilas con energia positiva, he estado haciendo bricolage por mi casa, y manualidades, incluyendo un almohadon para la silla de Luca, para que alcance a su plato mas comodamente. La verdad es que es la funda de dos almohadones que habia por mi casa. Me encanto usar esta tela que una vez compre en Tennessee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4927246336/" title="new cushion for Luca by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4927246336_a18f66af84.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="new cushion for Luca" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4661126350443649428?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4661126350443649428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4661126350443649428' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4661126350443649428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4661126350443649428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/08/fall-is-almost-here.html' title='Fall is almost here'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4927245856_57a4b60375_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-4707126591447746988</id><published>2010-08-19T11:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T12:14:56.440-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New shirt</title><content type='html'>I have been quite absent this past month. It was a break I needed while enjoying being with family, friends, and enjoying things in a slow pace. As I mentioned earlier, I did get to some crafts and even cook, and following an idea I saw over the internet, I decided to decorate a top with stripes I cut off another top...here is the result, I think I may try some other similar combinations...we will see...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;He estado bastante ausente durante este ultimo mes. Me tome un respiro para disfrutar de mi familia, amigos, y para disfrutar de las cosas de una modo mas relajado. Como dije antes, hice algunas manualidades e incluso cocine, y siguiendo una idea que vi por internet, decidi decorar una camiseta con las tiras que corte de otra...asi salio, creo que voy a intentar otras combinaciones similares...ya veremos...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4908039612/" title="tshirt by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4908039612_7c8ddaf11c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="tshirt" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-4707126591447746988?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/4707126591447746988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=4707126591447746988' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4707126591447746988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/4707126591447746988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-shirt.html' title='New shirt'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4908039612_7c8ddaf11c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-1291332306259099891</id><published>2010-08-09T02:36:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T02:55:30.173-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New cakes</title><content type='html'>I have been too busy to post anything lately, but I have been busy with family and friends and at the same time I did have the oportunity to make a few things. I had promised to make a fondant cake so that my family could see what it looked like. It was not easy and was not perfect but everyone enjoyed them, especially he kids. Take a look,&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;He estado muy ocupada como para poner nada, pero he estado con familiares y amigos y a la vez me ha dado tiempo a hacer algunas cosillas. Habia prometido hacer una tarta de fondant para que mi familia vea que aspecto tiene. No fue facil hacer el fondant ni salio perfecto pero todos lo disfrutaron, sobretodo los niños. Mirad que aspecto,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4874505979/" title="superman cake by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4874505979_d42201ff84.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="superman cake" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4875118650/" title="ladybug by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4875118650_7738685983.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="ladybug" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-1291332306259099891?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/1291332306259099891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=1291332306259099891' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1291332306259099891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/1291332306259099891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-cakes.html' title='New cakes'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4874505979_d42201ff84_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2361236002787681726</id><published>2010-07-16T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T10:20:00.445-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lightning cake recipe</title><content type='html'>Since there are several people interested in the lemon lightning cake that I made the other &lt;a href="http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/06/lightning-cake.html"&gt;day&lt;/a&gt; I decided to post recipe obtained from the Joy of cooking cookbook. I love this book, it was my husbands and leaned to make many things from it. I hope to keep on finding new recipes in the long future...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ya que hay varias personas que me han preguntado por el bizcocho de limon "rayo" que prepare el otro &lt;a href="http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/06/lightning-cake.html"&gt;dia&lt;/a&gt;, queria anhadir la receta sacada del libro de cocina "the Joy of cooking". Me encanta este libro, era de mi marido y he aprendido a hacer muchas cosas a partir de el. Espero poder seguir encontrando recetas en el futuro...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here it goes: Lightning cake&lt;br /&gt;Ingredients:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 cup all purpose flour&lt;br /&gt;1 tsp baking powder&lt;br /&gt;1/4 tsp salt&lt;br /&gt;8 Tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter&lt;br /&gt;1 cup sugar&lt;br /&gt;3 large eggs&lt;br /&gt;1 tsp grated lemon zest&lt;br /&gt;2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice&lt;br /&gt;1/3 cup chopped walnuts&lt;br /&gt;1 heaping spoon of sugar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aqui va: El bizcocho rayo&lt;br /&gt;Ingredientes:&lt;br /&gt;1 taza de harina&lt;br /&gt;1 cucharadita de levadura royal&lt;br /&gt;1 pizca de sal&lt;br /&gt;125 g matequilla&lt;br /&gt;1 taza de azucar&lt;br /&gt;3 huevos grandes&lt;br /&gt;rayadura de un limon&lt;br /&gt;jugo de  un limon&lt;br /&gt;nueces para decorar la parte de arriba&lt;br /&gt;una cucharada de azucar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mix flour baking powder and salt.&lt;br /&gt;In another bowl mix butter with 1 cup of sugar then beat in one at a time the 3 eggs.&lt;br /&gt;Beat in the lemon zest and juice. Stir in the flour mixture until smooth. Spread evenly in a pan and add the walnuts mixed with the spoon of sugar on top. &lt;br /&gt;Bake at 350F for 30-35 min or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in rack and Enjoy!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mezcla la harina con la levadura y la sal. &lt;br /&gt;en otro recipiente mezcla la mantequilla con la taza de azucar y luego mete uno a uno los 3 huevos. Anhade la rayadura de limon y el jugo de limon. A todo ese anhadele la mezcla de harina hasta uqe quede suave. Ponlo en un molde para hornear y hornea a 180C durante 30-35 min o hasta que al meter un palillo salga limpio. Dejar enfriar y a disfrutar!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2361236002787681726?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2361236002787681726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2361236002787681726' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2361236002787681726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2361236002787681726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/07/lightning-cake-recipe.html' title='Lightning cake recipe'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5581293370389195082</id><published>2010-07-14T17:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T17:59:00.910-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The new look of the summer</title><content type='html'>Clark Kent/Superman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4780648365/" title="superman by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4780648365_6b390a0307.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="superman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5581293370389195082?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5581293370389195082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5581293370389195082' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5581293370389195082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5581293370389195082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-look-of-summer.html' title='The new look of the summer'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4780648365_6b390a0307_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5428578495619193669</id><published>2010-07-12T14:37:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T20:31:26.867-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sign, talk, Spanish, English...</title><content type='html'>Today I went to have lunch with some friends. One of them has a relative who is a teenager who is deafblind. It is so frustrating to try to seek help for him and not really know where to look. I realize how lucky we are, how easy we have it considering that Luca doesn't have anything but a hearing loss. On the other hand, there was a woman at the restaurant with a hearing aid. She could speak although it was hard to understand her. She was glad to see Luca and Luca was glad to see someone with an implant like him (he thinks everything is an implant). She came to me and asked me if it was OK to give me a suggestion about his education. She first asked me if he knew sign, I told her he knew a little. Baby signs anyways. She asked me if I though he was going to want to learn sign. I said why not, I hope so. As much as I would like for him to learn Spanish anyways. She said, it is so much easier to learn sign along with speech at once, much easier than by themselves. She said, from personal experience, although she also said her parents were deaf. She said that if he doesn't learn sign, as an adult he will grow apart from his parents.&lt;br /&gt;I think that each person has such a particular situation and story that you just can't generalize. I think that might be true, if you are not a very successful oral speaker, but I am hoping that he will be a very good one. I hope we both can learn to sign so he can be closer to the world of the Deaf, and of course me too, but my priority now is English, and some Spanish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hoy fui a comer con unas amigas. Una de ellas tiene un familiar que es un adolescente que es sordociego. Es tan frustrante tratar de buscar ayuda para él y en realidad no sabe dónde buscar. Me doy cuenta de lo afortunados que somos, lo fácil lo tenemos ya que Luca no tiene otra cosa mas que una pérdida de audición. Por otro lado, había una mujer en el restaurante con un audífono. Podía hablar aunque era difícil entenderla. Se alegró de ver a Luca y el se alegró de ver a alguien con un implante como él (él piensa que todo es un implante). Ella se acercó y me preguntó si estaba bien que me diera una sugerencia acerca de su educación. Primero me preguntó si sabía hablar con se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as, le dije que conocía un poco. Se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as para bebés solo. Ella me preguntó si pensaba que el iba a querer aprender se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as. Le dije por qué no, eso espero. Tanto como me que me gustaría que él aprendiera español. Ella dijo, es mucho más fácil aprender a hablar a la vez que hacer se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as, mucho más fácil que solo hablar. Dijo que lo decia por experiencia personal, aunque también dijo que sus padres eran sordos. Me dijo que si él no aprende se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as, cuando se convierta en adulto se va a alejar de sus padres.&lt;br /&gt;Creo que cada persona tiene una situación particular y una historia que simplemente no se puede generalizar. Creo que podría ser cierto, si un ni&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;o acaba no siendo muy bueno en la comunicacion oral, pero yo espero que el sea una muy bueno. Espero que pueda aprender a hablar con se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as para que pueda estar más cerca del mundo de los sordos, y por supuesto yo también, pero mi prioridad ahora es el inglés, y algo de español.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thing, is that just like this young woman today, I have meet young adults who are good CI users and good oral communicators and that they are extremely happy with their oral choice and their parent's choices. It just makes more sense for me and my family, but I would love to learn to sign, as I love to learn other languages and to communicate with different people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;La cosa es que justo como esta chica, he conocido a otros adultos que son buenos usuarios de implantes cochleares y que son buenos comunicadores orales y estan felices por sus decisiones y las de sus padres. Para mi tiene sentido y para mi familia, pero me encantaria aprender a hablar con se&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;ñ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;as, tanto como me encanta aprender otras lenguas y comunicarme con diferentes personas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4788767288/" title="feria by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4788767288_a2bd3f6be2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="feria" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5428578495619193669?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5428578495619193669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5428578495619193669' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5428578495619193669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5428578495619193669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/07/sign-talk-spanish-english.html' title='Sign, talk, Spanish, English...'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4788767288_a2bd3f6be2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5617415986177551395</id><published>2010-07-10T17:11:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T17:57:32.087-05:00</updated><title type='text'>birthday party</title><content type='html'>Luca had a birthday party today of a friend from school. I offered her mom to make a cake but she had already decided to choose one from the store. Anyways, since I had offered, I decided to go ahead and make it anyways because otherwise I never get to make cakes and I need to make more if I want to get any better at this. I made a madeira sponge cake with a bit of chocolate flavor and covered with chocolate ganache. I think it was to hard, dry, maybe it didn't raise as much as it should have? It was ok, good for fondant, but I wish it had been a bit softer...the decoration was complicated. I started with the idea of making a castle, but for a girl, it needs to be girly, pink? I hate pink, I think it destroys everything but still I went with it, mixed with other colors, taking into consideration that this was the girl's favorite color. After many hours of hard work, at least 6 or 7, this is what I came up with. I did learn a few things that could be done differently, and learned about painting over fondant and making figurines. It is always a good experience although I always end up pretty tired. The birthday girl loved it and so did her family and the other guests. They all want me to start a business making birthday cakes, I think it is too much work. And needless to say, I had a hard time driving around town with this castle without smashing it! &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em? luca="" tenia="" un="" cumpleanhos="" de="" una="" amiguita="" del="" le="" ofreci="" a="" us="" mama="" hacerle="" la="" pero="" ya="" habia="" tomado="" decision="" elegiur="" aun="" decidi="" hacer="" porqeu="" sino="" nunca="" las="" hago="" y="" no="" voy="" hice="" bizcocho="" maeira="" con="" poco="" chololate="" cubieto="" ganache=""&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luca tuvo una fiesta de cumpleanhos de una amiguita del cole. Le ofreci a su madre hacerle la tarta de cumpleanhos pero habia decidido comprar uno de la tienda. Pero como ya le habia ofrecido, decidi hacerselo porque sino nunca practico y necesito hacer mas si quiero que me salgan mejor. Le hice un bizcocho de madeira con un poco de chocolate y cubierto de ganache de chocolate. Creo que el bizcocho estaba un poco duro, seco, quizas no subio lo que debia? Estaba bien, bien para el pastillaje (fondant), pero me hubiese gustado que estuviera un poco mas suave...la decoracion no fue facil. Empece con la idea de hacer un castillo, pero para una ninha, necesita ser mas femenino, rosa? odio el color rosa, creo que destroza todo pero aun asi lo hice, junto con otros colores teniendo en cuenta que es el color favorito de la cumpleanhera. Despues de muchas horas de trabajo duro, por lo menos 6 o 7, esto es lo que me salio. Aprendi unas cuantas cosas que podian haberse hecho de otro modo, y aprendi a pintar sobre fondant y a hacer munhequitos. Siembre esta bien como experiencia aunque siempre acabo agotada. La cumpleanera quedo encantada y tambien su familia y el resto de invitados. Quieren que abra un negocio de hacer tartas de cumpleanhos, creo que es demasiado trabajo. Y ni falta decirlo, conducir con la tarta sin que se estrellase ha sido toda una hazanha!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4780648317/" title="castle cake 2 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4780648317_ef6e79b5b7.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="castle cake 2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4780648325/" title="castle cake by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4780648325_a25bebc43d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="castle cake" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4780648347/" title="princess Jia by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4780648347_ecf0e7bcdf.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="princess Jia" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And this is how luca helped:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y asi es como Luca me ayudo:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4780648311/" title="helper... by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4780648311_2a230182be.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="helper..." /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And this is the present for the birthday girl:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;y este es el regalo para la cumpleanhera:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4780648263/" title="girl bag by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4780648263_fbb5d40546.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="girl bag" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5617415986177551395?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5617415986177551395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5617415986177551395' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5617415986177551395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5617415986177551395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/07/birthday-party_10.html' title='birthday party'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4780648317_ef6e79b5b7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7907194779685931500</id><published>2010-07-05T14:11:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-05T14:16:19.531-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Independence day!</title><content type='html'>I hope you (americans or living here) had a good 4th of July celebration. We went to see the fireworks at the park, and other than when we went to see the fireworks competitions from the beach of my town in Spain, I had never been so close to them. It was great, I am glad Luca gets to experience these kinds of things. And he also had a parade at school with his friends, here it is:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Espero que hayais pasado (los americanos o aquellos viviendo por aqui) un buen dia del 4 de Julio. Nosotros fuimos a ver fuegos artificiales al parque y, a parte de cuando soliamos ir a ver los concursos de fuegos artificiales a la playa en mi tierra, nunca habia estado tan cerca dellos. Fue muy chulo, me encanta que Luca pueda tener este tipo de experiencia. Y tambien tuvo un desfile en el cole, aqui esta:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.onetruemedia.com/share_view_player?p=b4b8cf53b4445d37e1447d" quality="high" scale="noscale" width="408" height="382" wmode="transparent" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT" flashvars="&amp;amp;p=b4b8cf53b4445d37e1447d&amp;amp;skin_id=701&amp;amp;host=http://www.onetruemedia.com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="margin:0px;font:12px/13px verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px;padding-bottom:15px;width:408px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onetruemedia.com/landing?&amp;amp;utm_source=emplay&amp;amp;utm_medium=txt0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;"&gt;Make photo slide shows at &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;www.OneTrueMedia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7907194779685931500?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7907194779685931500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7907194779685931500' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7907194779685931500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7907194779685931500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/07/happy-independence-day.html' title='Happy Independence day!'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-2816697484593149147</id><published>2010-07-01T11:06:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T13:34:28.535-05:00</updated><title type='text'>pan de queijo</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I decided to bake some little cheese breads. They are so delicious and so far I hadn't been very lucky making them. I tried a &lt;a href="http://trireceitas.blogspot.com/2010/06/pao-de-queijo-de-assadeira.html"&gt;new recipe&lt;/a&gt;, that I changed a bit according to my own measuring cups and ingredients. They came out soooo good! mmmm I love them!! too bad Luca doesn't eat them and I have to eat all of them!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ayer decidi hacer unos panecillos de queso. Estan tan ricos y hasta ahora no me habian salido de lo mejor. Decidi probar &lt;a href="http://trireceitas.blogspot.com/2010/06/pao-de-queijo-de-assadeira.html"&gt;una receta nueva&lt;/a&gt;, y la cambie un poco para acomodar mis tazas de medir y mis ingredientes. Salieron taaaan ricos! mmmm me encantaron!! que mal que a Luca no le gusten porque me toca comermelos todos!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4752447392/" title="pan de queico by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4752447392_1ec66679cb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="pan de queico" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4751806543/" title="pan de queso by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4751806543_39c52363b6.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="pan de queso" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Here is my recipe:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Mix:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;3 eggs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;pinch of salt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;2 cups of cassava starch&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1/2 cup of milk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1/3 cup of oil&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;When everything is well mixed add:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 Tbsp baking powder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;1 &amp;amp; 1/2 cups of Parmesan cheese (I also added some grated manchego cheese that had dried out and has strong flavor) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Put in greased muffin cups (12) and bake at 425F for 20 or until brown.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;Aqui va mi receta:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;Mezclar:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;3 huevos&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;una pizca de sal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;2 tazas de almidon de tapioca (o 250 g)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;media taza de leche (o 125 ml)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt; 1/3 taza de aceite ( o 100 ml)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;Cuando todo este bien mezclado anhadir:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;1 cucharada sopera de levadura royal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;1 taza y media (o 200 g) de queso rayado (Parmesano y yo tambien le anhadi un pedazo de manchego que se me habia secado y le da muy buen sabor)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;Poner la masa en un molde de magdalenas (12) y cocer a fuego alto durante 2o min o hasta que se doren. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;A disfrutar!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-2816697484593149147?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/2816697484593149147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=2816697484593149147' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2816697484593149147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/2816697484593149147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/07/pan-de-queico.html' title='pan de queijo'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4752447392_1ec66679cb_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-5902379694294750403</id><published>2010-06-28T21:01:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T21:29:43.916-05:00</updated><title type='text'>431</title><content type='html'>That number is how many posts I have written so far...time flies doesn't it?? &lt;div&gt;Today I just wanted to share about some of the books I got from the library today. I love libraries here, it is amazing how many of there you can find and also how many books, movies, and audio books or music cds you can find!!!! I have been watching interesting movies that I didn't know about and that I randomly pick when I visit the library (several times a week). I also got some books about painting and quilting, a combination of arts to try to inspire me to do something, not sure if a painting or a quilt, I think I will start with the painting and maybe later a wall hanging that might go with the painting, that would be interesting...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ese es el numero de veces que he escrito en este blog...el tiempo vuela no??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hoy queria compratir sobre algunos libros que saque hoy de la biblioteca. Me encantan las bibliotecas aqui, son increibles con la cantidad de cosas que se pueden encontrar y scar, como libros, peliculas, libros en cd y musica!!! He estado viendo pelis interesantes que he ido escogiendo al azar  cuando voy a la biblio (varias veces a la semana). Tambien saque algunos libros sobre pintura y acolchado, una combinacion de artes que quiero que me sirvan de inspiracion para hacer algo, no se si un cuadro o una colcha, creo que empezare con el cuadro y luego quizas un tapiz que lo acompanhe, estaria bien...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4744658528/" title="DSCN0150 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4744658528_2a8c55c2f2.jpg" width="500" height="231" alt="DSCN0150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I got three books, one about appliqué, trying to get out of the point where I got stuck in the rose quilt...the other is a pictorial quilt book, I love this because I like to so realistic things like that, but especially because they also have human figures, and the last book, is about skateboarding art...with some really inspiring and cool portraits that I want to use as inspiration for my new projects...what do you think?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Asi que saque 3 libros, uno de aplique, a ver si me ayuda a salir del punto donde me que quedado parada con la quilt de la rosa...el otro es uno de quilts de dibujos, me encanta porque me gustan las cosas relaistas asi de ese tipo, y el ultimo, es sobre art de monopatines...con unas imagenes de retratos que me gustan mucho y que espero que me sirvan de inspiracion para mis proximos proyectos...que opinais?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4744658544/" title="DSCN0092 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4744658544_01494f3337.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0092" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And this photo might be an inspiration too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y esta foto puede que tambien me sirva de inspiracion.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-5902379694294750403?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/5902379694294750403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=5902379694294750403' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5902379694294750403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/5902379694294750403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/06/431.html' title='431'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4744658528_2a8c55c2f2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-6525415514279892854</id><published>2010-06-24T21:28:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T21:34:48.709-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lightning cake</title><content type='html'>I made one of my favorite cakes, the lightning cake. I like it because it is so fast to make, and it is sooo good! not too sweet but light and with a lemony flavor mmmm, it was about time to use my kitchenaid, I has been just decorating my kitchen lately...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;He hecho uno de mis bizcochos favoritos, el bizcocho rayo. Me gusta porque se hace tan rapido, y esta tan rico! no demasiado dulce pero ligero y con sabor a limon mmmm, hacia tiempo que no usaba mi kitchenaid, estaba de decoracion de mi cocina...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4724638083/" title="lemon cake by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/4724638083_359db9f75b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="lemon cake" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also wanted to show the appliqué that I was working on that will eventually go on top of a quilt that I sew some time ago...I still can't quite figure out what to make to it so it looks the way I want...I have been dealing with this question for months now...oh well one day I will get inspired about it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tambien queria ensenharos el aplique en el que estuve trabajando y que algun dia ira encima de la colcha que hice hace un tiempo...aun no me decido como hacer uqe quede como me gusta...llevo pensando en ello desde hace meses....bueno, algun dia me entrara la inspiracion...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4724637397/" title="rose applique by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1383/4724637397_3c88ca6e95.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="rose applique" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-6525415514279892854?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/6525415514279892854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=6525415514279892854' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6525415514279892854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/6525415514279892854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/06/lightning-cake.html' title='Lightning cake'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/4724638083_359db9f75b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-979757731320929678</id><published>2010-06-22T13:54:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T14:15:51.767-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Coasters</title><content type='html'>I got invited to friends' birthday party so I decided to make something, something I can whip in one afternoon but that at least is cute. I wish I would spend more time sewing...but at least I have started, and I have also continued with a quilt I started last year. I will post a photo of the appliqué soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me invitaron a una fiesta de cumpleanhos de unos amigos y edcidi haer algo, algo que pudiera acabar rapidito en una tarde pero que estuviera mono. Me gustaria pasar mas tiempo cosiendo...pero por lo menos he empezado, y estoy continuando con una colcah queempece el anho pasado. Pondre una foto del aplique pronto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4725287196/" title="DSCN0110 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1049/4725287196_c460518e92.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN0110" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4725287796/" title="DSCN0111 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1053/4725287796_849a8eef4a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0111" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this one is not superman, is clark kent! do you see his jacket and pants?? he will open them and take off...or so he says...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt; Y este no es superman, es Clark Kent! veis la chaqueta y los pantalones?? se los abrira y saldra volando...o eso dice el...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4725288282/" title="superman by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/4725288282_cbcf737487.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="superman" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-979757731320929678?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/979757731320929678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=979757731320929678' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/979757731320929678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/979757731320929678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/06/coasters.html' title='Coasters'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1049/4725287196_c460518e92_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-7049689868836245578</id><published>2010-06-18T20:56:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T21:19:19.853-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Indulgence</title><content type='html'>For my birthday...or maybe mother's day I received a gift certificate from my sister in law from one of the most inspirational shops around, &lt;a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp?cm_mmc=Google-_-Brand_Misspells-_-anthropology-_-Exact+Ad_444906593|-|100000000000000005921&amp;amp;cm_guid=1-_-100000000000000005921-_-444906593"&gt;Anthropologie&lt;/a&gt;. I love going there just to get ideas, to get inspiration and to have a good time. I never buy anything because it's way too expensive and nothing in that store is really necessary. So, I indulge my eyes every time I go because they also have everything amazingly displayed. But this time, I had a gift certificate, and I just didn't know where to start. And after observing every single object of the store, or at least those within my price range, I ended up buying this that I really don't need, that I already have at home, but not nearly as pretty as these...and that is what presents should be right? Thanks Juju :)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Para mi cumpleaños ... o tal vez para el dia de la madre, recibí una tarjeta de regalo de mi cuñada de una de las tiendas que más me inspiran de alrededor,  &lt;a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp?cm_mmc=Google-_-Brand_Misspells-_-anthropology-_-Exact+Ad_444906593|-|100000000000000005921&amp;amp;cm_guid=1-_-100000000000000005921-_-444906593"&gt;Anthropologie&lt;/a&gt;. Me encanta ir allí sólo para sacar ideas, para inspirarme y pasar un buen rato. Nunca compro nada porque es demasiado caro y no hay nada en esa tienda que sea realmente necesario. Por lo tanto, me doy el capricho de cotillearlo todo cada vez que voy porque ademas lo tienen todo expuesto sorprendentemente bonito. Pero esta vez, tenía una tarjeta de regalo, y no sabía por dónde empezar. Y después de mirarlo todo en la tienda, o al menos todo lo que estaba dentro de mi presupuesto, terminé comprando esto que realmente no necesitaba, que ya tengo en casa, pero que no son tan bonitas como estas ... y asi debe ser un regalo, no? Gracias Juju&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4712741543/" title="salt and pepper shaker by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4712741543_5a68738822.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="salt and pepper shaker" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Salt and pepper shakers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Salero y pimentero&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4713380842/" title="measuring cups by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4713380842_00a3316035.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="measuring cups" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ceramic measuring cups &lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tazas de medir de ceramica&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4713381152/" title="measuring cups by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4713381152_ab37493afa.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="measuring cups" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-7049689868836245578?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/feeds/7049689868836245578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22849062&amp;postID=7049689868836245578' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7049689868836245578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22849062/posts/default/7049689868836245578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://polvorondelimon.blogspot.com/2010/06/indulgence.html' title='Indulgence'/><author><name>Carmen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09473782678570150247</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4712741543_5a68738822_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22849062.post-8830212650563049010</id><published>2010-06-11T19:42:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T20:19:37.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Flowers, photography and science</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692242506/" title="DSCN0019 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4692242506_01bb6b111d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0019" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have been enjoying two weeks of leisure, doing just fun things with family and Luca could not have been happier. It is great to do things out of the routine once in a while, as I think he grows and matures so much in these periods. We are alone again, but busy. I have been preparing for a scientific meeting where I was presenting. It had been years since the last time I did it, so I was a bit nervous, but with nothing lose, I think I did well and my talk came at a good point of the symposium. I hope it is meaningful for someone and also for me in the future.  It is good to get my brain back to science, not hard, like riding a bike, it all comes back.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today it was a cloudy day, and we spent the day in the science museum and the botanical gardens. I have only been there a couple of times but haven't really had a chance to see most of the gardens. I love botanical gardens, and these in particular are just amazing. So I took some closeup pictures of some flowers as the day light was good for it and we both enjoyed the stroll around there. I wish I could devote more time to photography, that is another thing that is becoming interesting to me...maybe one day. For now, I have been painting, starting a second painting and hopefully I will also continue with sewing. I want to finish a bed quilt that I started last year. And maybe some more furniture painting in the near future??? overambitious??? maybe...we will see. Once thing that I have realized lately is that there are a million gardens or parks in this town, all of them beautiful, and as much as I enjoy plants and horticulture, I love art, creating and all that world just moves me. I so wish I had time to study more about art...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hemos podido disfrutar de dos semanas de ocio, haciendo cosas entretenidas con familiares y Luca estuvo feliz. Esta muy bien hacer cosas fuera de la rutina e vez en cuando, ya que creo que crece y madura mucho en estos períodos. Estamos solos otra vez, pero ocupados. He estado preparandome para un congreso científica donde presentaba. Habían pasado años desde la última vez que lo hice, así que estaba un poco nerviosa, pero sin nada que perder, creo que lo hice bien y mi charla se dio en un buen momento del simposio. Espero que sirrva de algo para alguien y también para mí en un futuro. Me viene bien volver a meter mi cerebrito en la ciencia, no es difícil, es como andar en bicicleta, me vuelvo a acordar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy ha estado nublado, y pasamos el día en el museo de ciencia y el jardin botánico. Sólo he estado allí un par de veces, pero realmente no habia tenido la oportunidad de ver la mayoría de los jardines. Me encantan los jardines botánicos, y este, en particular, es simplemente impresionante. Así que tomé algunas fotos de primer plano de algunas flores ya que la luz del día era buena para hacerlo y los dos disfrutamos del paseo por allí. Me gustaría poder dedicar más tiempo a la fotografía, eso es otra cosa que se está volviendo interesante para mí ... tal vez algun día. Por ahora, he estado pintando, he comenzado un segundo cuadro y espero también seguir con la costura. Quiero terminar una colcha de cama que empecé el año pasado. Y tal vez pintar algún mueble más en un futuro próximo??? demasiado ambicioso??? tal vez ... ya veremos. Lo que si que me he dado cuenta últimamente es que hay un millón de jardines o parques en esta ciudad, todas ellos hermosos, y tanto como me gustan las plantas y la horticultura, me encanta el arte, la creación y todos lo relacionado con ese mundo, me conmueve. Ojala que tuviera tiempo para estudiar más de arte ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4691615973/" title="DSCN9990 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4691615973_4e3ecc399e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN9990" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692246326/" title="DSCN9995 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4692246326_c6a5f50b4e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN9995" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692244766/" title="DSCN0047 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4692244766_3c1bd20da4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0047" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692244500/" title="DSCN0042 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4692244500_c896cbf780.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4691613575/" title="DSCN0041 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4691613575_47decfb1a0.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0041" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692243928/" title="DSCN0040 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4692243928_3f91bb1b1c.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0040" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4691613065/" title="DSCN0039 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4691613065_01413e9a03.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0039" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692243362/" title="DSCN0038 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4692243362_436dd69760.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0038" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4692243044/" title="DSCN0037 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4692243044_1d42498629.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0037" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4691612165/" title="DSCN0032 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4691612165_5c4b97ce33.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0032" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4691611313/" title="DSCN9989 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4691611313_6ac6752c08.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN9989" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64248598@N00/4691611627/" title="DSCN0005 by dozodozo, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4691611627_d0059e9e3d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN0005" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22849062-8830212650563049010?l=polvorondelimon.blogspot.com' 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