Movie Across the Miles

When you’re single and there are not many people around rest days can get redundant and uneventful. Awhile back I posted (click here) about having word time with someone on the other side of the world and how it was a cool and different experience.
While chatting with a friend in Brazil yesterday we discovered we were both going to be on rest day today and were talking about how doing things alone can get boring, so we struck on the idea of watching a movie together. So we decided on a movie neither of us had seen and we each downloaded it and agreed to watch it at the same time. We did just that…it was fun as we each enjoyed the movie and were able to comment via chat about it as we were watching it. So I was able to break my chains of watching something on my own on rest days.

HB2Y Mom

Happy Birthday Mom!! I really love you and am praying for you. May this year be a great one for you! I wanted to post a photo of you but I don’t have any…want to send me one? So I am posting a photo of something synonymous with you!


I know there are so many people whose lives you touched, so many mothers and fathers that love you, so many children you helped bring into the world. I am proud to have someone so loved and remembered in such a way as my mother. Thanks for all you taught me and for the life you provided for me. It was such a wonderful life and because of that it is a lifestyle I now try to provide for my children. You are one of God’s greats!!

HB2Y Jason

Jason, I love you man! You are one of the coolest guys I know! Bro, I have been where you’re at and I have walked the road you’re walking so I know for a fact the Lord has great and wonderful things in store for you this year. The road is not always easy but the things we go through make us stronger. I look forward to seeing you on my upcoming trip and we’ll go out and have a victory celebration. You are in my daily prayers!

Anyone reading this if you know Jason please leave him a comment, hey even if you don’t know him you can leave one.

Trading Faces

Jade can WINK! Yeah baby!

Thoughtful Thursdays – Carrots

I am sure a lot of you have either gone to markets before or cook sometimes in your homes; well you’ve probably seen an ageing carrot how it gets kind of soft and wobbly. I don’t mean when it actually has mushy spots, but more the whole carrot starts to …What is the right word to describe that? Limp, droop, sag, flaccid??? Oh, nevermind….

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HB2Y Rossi

Rossi and Justin

Happy Birthday Rossi!! Big Hugs!

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . . You become 21.

Even the words sound like a ceremony. . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling.

What's wrong? What's changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50

And your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90's, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92."

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

HB2Y Nyx

Happy Birthday Nikki,
I am thankful for the friendship the Lord has given us. I am thankful to see you still fighting and getting stronger all the time. You are an encouragement to me and I am thankful for your advice and council in my writing. I am praying for you to have an amazing new year with your hearts desires being fulfilled. Big Hugs!

Party Post

(Click on colored names to visit their blogs)

I want to thank, Ali, Rafe, Kathy, Adrian, Jade, Nyx, Joy, Esther , Jenny and Linda for the birthday cards and emails! (Update on May 16th, Thank you Esther Wilding, Tina E. and Joy who sent cards but that got lost in cyber space. And thank you Olive for your card, I love belated cards!)

Thanks to Ali, Cel, Rosita and Vicky for the Birthday Posts and the cool slide show!

Thanks Dust and Mex City Home for the gift.

Thank you Suzi for the prophecy…You have a beautiful gift there!

Special thanks to my home, I love you guys, for the few days off for my birthday so I could travel to DF and Cuernavaca. It was an awesome birthday gift.

Now I can tell you about the trip.
On the night of the 10th (my birthday) I set out with others from Veracruz to drive to Mexico City (DF) about half way there the transmission went out! TTL we found a safe place to leave the van and caught a ride to the next biggest city with a family home in it which was an hour away.
Thanks to the Puebla home for putting us up so graciously and hospitably with no notice. It was great to have that home unexpectedly added to the list of homes I was going to visit.
I spent the morning there fellowshipping with the home then headed to DF to the ND home where they put me up for two nights and hosted my birthday party. The party turned out better then I could have hoped for with close friends and very informal, just a few games, snacks and drinks, with everyone fellowshipping and telling stories.

The Drinks

The Snacks

The Cheesecake

The Yawn at 2:00am

Then it’s off to Cuernavaca for a day to visit with all my friends in the home there. Recently some folks I lived with 5 years ago in Europe moved here so it was a lot of fun to see them all again.

2007 Birthday Prayer

Lord, I ask that you take my life this year in your hands, that you use it to the desire that you have for it, that I may only do Thy Will.

If a smile brightens my day, I pray I can send it back to the world and by doing so brighten the day of another.
I pray that when laughter finds itself as my companion that I may in turn bring laughter to those around me.
That when joy walks by my side I may be a vessel to reflect Your joy!
That when love embraces me, I pray that I will not fear to love back with sacrificial and unconditional love.
I pray when life greets me with the breath of passion, that I find the zeal to live it responsibly.
I pray when pain walks beside me as my teacher, that You be my opiate to help me grow and heal.
That with tears I cry, my eyes will be cleansed so that I can with crystal clarity see more obviously the path on which You guide me.

Dia de la Madre

Feliz Dia de la Madre! Happy Mothers day!

In Mexico Mothers Day is the 10th of May...in the US it's the second Sunday of each May, this year falling on the 13th. I am posting today in honor of the mothers I live with and I know my mom and the mother of my children won't mind.

I am not a poet by any stretch of the imagination...but I had a go at writing something in honor of mother's everywhere! Hope you like it.

Mothers are wonderment's of God’s love
Offensively preparing me for the battles in the field
This child you bore will in time life prove
Holding course as breaking's teach me to yield
Eventually, what’s left is a life filled with beauty
Resonant with songs in my heart eternally sung
‘ twixt the prevailing wonder and sense of duty
Sacrifice, to me, is a word on silence hung
Dear as life may be, there is something dearer,
A truth unfading as to the end of life I get nearer,
Yet it was, that kept me, the prayers of my Mother.

Phil and Angelina

Just a shout out for Phil and Angelina, they have a new improved website. It was fun going through all the photos in the gallery, I even found some in the “Friends” section of me (C-mas 2005) that I had never seen before. Thanks for passing on the link Phil, which I have added to my links list on my sidebar. Big Hugs!

A Childs Concept of Time…

Jessica (6) on a recent trip to Europe!

Six months before I rejoined in this home I came for a visit around Christmas of 2005 and Jessica (having then just turned 5) was all sweet and friendly and was very insistent on marrying me when she grew up.

Well the other day while taking care of the kids I heard Jessica telling one of the kids she was “going to marry so-and-so!” I interjected, “Jessica, I thought you were going to marry me.” “You’re too old for me!” she replied. “You’ll grow up, and then I won't be too old.” I said. She replied, “By then you’ll be dead!”

Wolf Studios

Babylove sent me the link to the Wolf Studios site. Maybe you all have seen it before...but it was new for me. Some cool music videos are there for downloading...check it out by clicking on the logo above!

My First Birthday Card in 2007

This is the first birthday card I got this year...it was done by the talented Nyx Martinez! It is of Jade as my fairy angel. Jade is the light of my life! I couldn't have thought of a more suitable subject for my birthday if I had tried. Thank you Nyx!

And below is the photo of Jade that she based it on!

Dia Del Nino…

…or “Children’s Day” was the 30th of April. Here in México having a day celebrating children is just as big as Mothers Day and Fathers Day. For our Children’s Day we did a clown show in the local hospital with out Dr. Payaso program. We had local companies sponsor a gift package for the children. Each package included books, a CD card, an Activated mag and a small gift. Here are some photos from that event.

Hana, Stef and Danny with the packages!

Cephas with one of the children

Hana with one of the children!

Mel with one of the children!

Stef making balloons!

Mel and Stef