comfy porch seat + music + coffee = great morning

I am sitting on the porch of my spanish home...yes it feels like home =] We brought up the porch furniture last night and I am so happy that the sun is out today! It's a little windy, but I am loving sitting outside relaxing, listening to my music on the wonderful portable speakers Mom and Dad got me for Christmas and enjoying a big cup of coffee.  My allergies have been going crazy so I figure sitting out here will help so I can get all my sneezes out now.  Well this last week has been nice.  Wesley got engaged, so there has been a lot of contact with the family back home hearing new news everyday about wedding and everything that goes with it =] It's all really exciting! Last night mom and Sharon called me at 1 am here and we had a wonderful chat. I love how technology lets us keep in touch and feel so connected half a world away from eachother. 


view from my corner-of-the-porch seat



Well life here in Spain hasn't changed to much int he last week.  The kids are really comfortable with me which is nice.  They are totally hilarious, and even with they frustrate me I still love working with them! I am really comfortable in the family which is wonderful.  Marije and Miguel have been so warm that it makes it easy.  I am finally use to the feel of the house, it is a beautiful house, but everything felt little sterile when i first got here and now it feels homey.  Marije is just very particular and I am used to a very homey feeling house where I am now scared about which pillows I am allowed to touch and so on.  But now I am used to it and it's nice.  But I have come to the firm conclusion that when I have my own house I am getting carpet.  This is the 3rd time I have lived in a house without carpet and I really miss it.  You hear everything, have to constantly sweep and its bugs to walk around barefoot on it, haha.  But it does make cleaning up Abraham's sand, that he brings home in his shoes from school, very easy =] ( really wish this thing had actual smiley faces I could use)

Well that is it...talk to you all next week!

xoxox