...what Betty read, heard, recommends or just wants to say.
Baby Jordi and I will be in Chicago this weekend! It’s my sweet goddaughter’s First Communion! Another blessed weekend! The bigger boys will all be home doing a bunch of sports, eating out and enjoying the gorgeous weather.
Our whole family is in Chicago and I can’t wait to see my parents, my siblings, my goddaughters and my comadres!
I hope you have a great weekend planned too!
I hope you had a great weekend! It’s supposed to snow here today! Ugh! The longest winter ever. Diego is on his way back to school after TWO weeks of spring break! We had a great time but we are all ready for the regular routine.
We did a lot of catching up this week and will try to stay organized as we have a lot of visitors coming to visit soon! Our long time friend Pita stopped by with her beau on Wednesday while road tripping through the East Coast! So much fun.
Here are my suggested links for you today. Enjoy!
My friend and favorite photographer Nancy had her work featured in Hostess With The Mostess!
Going to get some style ideas for my boys from him! Following now.
Running your home like a business? If interested, you have to check out The Secrets of Happy Families
Lots of discussion on feminism this week! The book: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sad week for education in Chicago. Guess what? It’s still everyone’s problem.
A few tips to be the perfect dinner guest. I know I chat too much! jajaja!
The green light: TV time for your kiddies!
Special premier of Eva Longoria’s Ready For Love on Tuesday! I have my DVR set.
Are your Easter baskets ready??? OMG not mine! I had to scrape Target on Friday night! :-/
Happy Monday!
Chicago friends, great news!! This past weekend was the beginning of a new program and the first day of the Spring session for the Latino Cultural Academy! Imagine a place where your little ones can go on Saturdays and be completely immersed in Spanish with other children, while being led by very knowledgeable teachers to collaborate and learn about Latino heritage!
The Latino Cultural Academy was founded by four multicultural Latino families aware of the challenges their second-generation Latino children were facing in connecting with their heritage. These parents made their children’s cultural education a priority and helped create an environment where many children can benefit from learning in a traditional classroom setting (at UIC!), while allowing them to contribute to the curriculum along with supportive participation from parents.
On this blog we have discussed the concern many of us have regarding our children losing their identity and Spanish language-but we continue to work hard on this issue. When I heard that a college friend of Jose’s was one of the founders of LCA, I said, I have to ask him some questions. Here is an exchange Jose Luz Frausto and I had recently: [Read more...]
Our vacation starts today!!! In reality, our vacation starts in about 24 hours because we are DRIVING to Chicago! Yikes! Snow and three kids…fun!! jajaja! But first, we are off to Diego’s winter concert!! Hooray! I hear it’s so sweet I should bring pocket tissues! What a great way to start a vacation.
I can’t wait to see my family, my friends and Coco (my sister’s dog)! I also can’t wait to dig in to the yummy Chicago food!! It should be a fantastic Christmas and I wish you all the same!
May your holiday be magical!
I walked out of the classroom at the age of 26. I had only been teaching for four years and realized I had a change of heart. I was getting married, moving to New York and in the past, in order to pay for college, I had had so many jobs that I thought it would be good to continue to pursue one of those for a second career. Maybe continue auditioning? I loved doing voice-overs. Maybe continue working in the spa industry? That payed really well when I was student-teaching. Why not? My husband had a stable career that gave me the flexibility to re-evaluate. I am not afraid to tell you…I was tired of teaching.
I was teaching outside of Chicago in the Western Suburbs in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood making around $30,000 a year (that was the starting salary ten years ago in the suburbs). Perhaps all the running around to audition for t.v.commercials, creating theater with amazing women, shampooing heads at the salon, helping my dad start his business AND teaching middle school Language Arts and Reading to make ends meet became too much (heck, reading that was exhausting). But I had a lovely scenario in the classroom. I had no more than 20 students in each of my five classes, I taught what I liked and as a team with my colleagues. There was always pressure to “teach-to-the-test” but I compensated with bombarding the children with novels for homework. I also went in early in the mornings to do breakfast/cafeteria duty and stayed late coaching Poms. I even taught an ESL class to adults in the evenings. All those “extras” added up to me making those $30,000.
I had the occasional knuckle-head parent [Read more...]
It’s hot here in Jersey! What are you doing to stay cool? Dreaming of a nice cold beer? I’m hydrating with tons of water since I am the only supervisor on duty of three little munchkins who are already a little “too happy”. I’m still only sipping a little of this or a little of that but I am dreaming of nice cold alcoholic beverages today! You are definitely thinking by now that I really need an intervention. No need to worry! Just trying to relax a bit. Remember my rant from earlier this week? Working on it all! So I’m trying to stay positive and visualize happy things and today I am dreaming of Chicago and a nice cold beverage (or three). [Read more...]
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