We are wishing everyone a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
It has been an interesting year for us. There have been some bad times family wise with my mom being ill. Hoping she will continue to improve now that she has been moved into a Rehab. facility. All we can do is hope for the best quality of life that is available to her at this time in her life. Also along family lines I was fortunate to get in contact with some family that I had never met and lucky enough to actually get to meet them this year. That was a great thing.
There have been changes in our Mexican family (our landlords) this year as well. Part of the family has moved into a home across the street, another member has moved away due to job obligations and another one has extended his family. Mostly good changes all around with them. Little Diego is now over a year old and is walking, well actually running and is beginning to talk. He is a real charmer. The neighborhood continues to invite us to their family fiestas and that is nice of them, we enjoy being asked to join in.
It has been a good year for us here and I am finding more and more things here that are keeping me busy, at times busier than I want to be and I am going to need to figure out how to say NO at times; but it is all good.
My Spanish progresses very slowly, not my teachers fault; but mine. My short term memory does not retain things well because of having Fibromyalgia and I have a difficult time remembering my verb tenses. Add to that the fact that I am extremely lazy about studying and it is not a good thing. I keep on with the classes once a week and enjoy the conversation with my teacher. She is a wonderful lady.
We took a few minutes last night to look at the rare New Years Eve Blue Moon, the landlord came up and looked at it with us and when I said I probably wouldn't be around for the next one, he said that he and Roy would watch it together. It was of course an evening with lots of fireworks going off.
The city here is gearing up for Carnaval in February. They showed the contestants for the queen and Rey Feo on the local news the other night and we were surprised to see our young neighbor in the lineup. I think Beto would be great at this, he is a very genial, fun loving young man and when I find a place where I can vote for him, we will. Last years Rey Feo was one of the announcers from the TV station and he did a good job.
(Photo taken from Desde Cabina )
