calling all moms or anyone who has some wisdom

Do guys know of anything thats works when kids have a bad cold. I am looking for somthing natural.

Families Being Torn Apart!

Recently the Latino community has been a target for families being torn apart and mistreated.I have grown up in Oregon most of my life and it is not as diverse as let say California where a lot of El Salvadoreans escaped to during a civil war in the early 80's. People from all of central America were escaping left and right due to civil wars. I can remember as a kid seeing dead people and hearing bombs in the night. When we escaped it was at late at night and its was long and scary journey! I don't talk about it much because it was a dark moment and I would like to forget about. But recently I been reminded by all the injustice the Latino community is experiencing. I know there is an immigration problem we must try to solve. I don't know the answers all the way but ripping families apart and mistreating people, having raids in public libraries, storming work sites is not appropriate. My cousin was stoped recently and is now on his way to being deported back to El Salvador this is an out cry! He has been here since he was 11 years old and again escaped getting taken from his family to either be a guerrilla soldier or a the local army where a 11 year old. So we sent money and he went on the most dangerous journey of his life with my grandmother who was in 6o's at the time. Ludwin story is common he married a native American girl who they have been with each other for ten years. They have two kids together and one child who Ludwin has loved and accepted as his own. He has been in the system now for a month and a half. While he has been there his family has suffered greatly. They don't have an apartment anymore because he was trhe primary breadwinner and are living with family. This is an outrage and its happening all over the country. Latinos need to be respected and treated a lot different then this. We have served this country with our the labor of our hands and our country cant repay us this way. Children are suffering and in many cases both parents are being taken by the migra because they both work at the same place. What happens to the kids they are left with strangers and extended family. This is not right. My cousin is fortunate to a least have a lawyer but is still getting mistreated in the jail system. They are treated like unwanted dogs and criminals which I am sure some are but not everyone!!!!!!! I ask that you would care as a christian for Latinos and anyone that's an immigrant because the Bible tells us to. Right now I feel like this is where the Church and Christians need to stand up against injustice! Its important and at the very least we can pray and treat every Latino with respect and dignity we are real people with real families that are experiencing hardship in this great country! So I AM not mad or angry at anyone but am frustrated with the way our culture is handling this right now. People talk about this like there is a simple answer and there is not. I hope that we just have some mercy honor the work of the latino community better then our legal sysytem and our government is handling this at this time. So friends and family please pray for me becasue I am about to get involved in the my community and through service to them and hope you find a way to care about people who need your help here right at home in the US.

Yes Finally I am a Baker !!!!!!!!

I have always wanted to make chocolate chips and finally I did it thanks to my friend Mel Lute!! I love you girl!!!!!!!And T does too!!!!!!!Yummy they are the best!!!!!!!I am having about three or four tonight. I have tried to make these for seven years yes seven year as long as I have been married. I have been so discouraged about it that I started to buy store bought dough! I have always wanted to teach my girls and I thought maybe I just won't be able too. I have to work at cooking and baking its really not instinct like others are blessed with like my hubby he can make pies really anything. But finally I baked something good, and I even made vegan ones for Ms Bella. I feel like Mrs. Betty Crocker Herself!!!!!!!!!My friend actually had to come to my house and show me the ropes in the kitchen! Because really I thought I was a lost cause and she just whipped them up so fast and gave me hope!!!!!!! I have been changed and saved from the thought that I can't bake! I need to know what sift means in baking term? A lot more to learn.....hopefully now I will be more adventures with my mad baking skills. My mommy did not bake growing up so I have never grown up with it..sound crazy but that's on the real! lol lol...

Coffee or No Coffee?

I love coffee I have drank coffee since I was Four on the real. We lived in El Salvador until I was five and its very common for kids to drink coffee due to bacteria being in water its better then straight up water. I know crazy fact, but I have been thinking about giving it up. I drink one cup a day and love it. I use way too much sugar in it and when I go to Starbucks I ask for house coffee with six sugars and cream I think that's probably not good for me. I should just get a mocha or something. But I love black coffee doctored up! I grew up in a Latin family so we would have pan dulce and coffee in the morning that's is very common. I also loved waking up and having refried beans,ripe fried plantain, and sour cream, and coffee and pan dulce. (Donut) so I have been doing that routine for twenty- eight years. I have tried to break it but its so ingrained. I love it. I have been able to go with out it one week and then I am back to the same routine pan dulce and coffee as my breakfast. But I want to be more healthy and I am trying to at least have a bowl of cereal in the morning. I am down to three or four sugars and less cream but I still love pan dulce and since I love my routine I have to have it together a little ocd just comes over me I guess! So I am on this kick again we will see how long I can keep this up.

Adult time!

So I was at a friends house for her birthday party and she had other moms there except one lady who was not a mom. So I am such an observer that night we all just chatted away it was to fun.The lady who did not have kids was a little uncomfortable because we all talked about our kids and our labor for like thirty minutes. So I tried to change the subject so we could included her but to no avail. You should have see these women it was like we hadn't got out an a while but we still talked about our kids a lot.Poor lady I hope she had fun that night. I got home and thought about my night and pondered did I talk too much? I spend so much time with my kids that at times when I don't have them I forget how to hang out with adults. I had such a good time being a grown up and being just Roxy that I made jokes had fun conversing about politics and life that I forgot how good it feels to have time with grown ups and to be there with out my kids!!Don't get me wrong I love my kids but when you spend all your time with them it's refreshing to get away. Anyways I hope I did not talk too much that wonderful night. And I hope that the lady still want to some day have kids because we gave her details she did not need to hear about!!!! LOL LOL!

My dew is growing back!!!!!!

So I moved to Portland a year ago, and had just had a baby. I decided to cut my hair off in tribute of just having Brasil. So I cut off all my hair to the shortest I have ever had it. It was defiantly fun and easy! I loved it and then it started to grow and expand in the roundish sector, froish sector! I mean like the stars want but cant have! But that everyday people can't sport! So finally two days ago I could start to pull it back it felt so great not have to blow dry it to make it look descent. I am thrilled to finally be a girl again. I now have to figure out how I want to sport it for the fall! I am up for any advice!

Brasil tricked Me!!!!!!!

So Brasil has been with a fever since Sunday and the fever has not broke. So I have been a bit worried about it. And Tory and I have not slept through the night this week! We were up again with her last night and she was really crying hard and throwing herself all over our bed. So you must understand Brasil is very content and mild mannered thus far. So Tory and I tried to do everything we know Brasil likes. We got her a bottle, we kissed her, we sang to her, we exhausted ourselves. So then when she would not stop crying we just prayed what else is left right? So she finally fell asleep and then she was up again carrying on. So the super mom syndrome came over me and I said I am taking her to the hospital at 2am. So I got her bottle and dashed out the door! Brasil slept all the way there and I started to have second thoughts if I should just go home. So I went on and we rushed into the ER. We go in there and as we get checked in Brasil is laughing away wanting to play and talk to everyone. But I just told myself she is so sick she is not in reality right now!!!!!!So the doctor comes in and she is laughing and eating her graham cracker. The doctor ask me so whats wrong with her? I feel really stupid right now I explain how she had just 30minutes ago been in pain and agony that I felt helpless and came to see you. So he check her and everything was great. He told me just keep her fluids up!So I said what about a chest xray or a blood test. My mom just came back from central America and had a bug do you think she caught it? The Doctor looked at me like I was on something. I said look doc my husband is going to laugh at me please find something wrong with this child. He laughed and said just tell him she has an acute viral infection and smirked out the room....Darn I am going home with a singing happy baby...don't get me wrong I am thankful she was feeling better but I was dreading Tory saying I told you so! So then the call comes in its T and I answer and he says whats that noise and I say oh that's your daughter singing and laughing at Mommy. So then T starts laughing and then I start laughing. That Brasil is a piece of work I tell you.

The Walker for and only for Aunti Princess

Brasil has a song in her heart.

More Makeover Pics!

New Decor

Hey found I had a gift card so I went to Ikea immediately and to Walmart for yellow spray paint! Tory recovered the chairs with brown material which cost 12 dollars,(Yes T ROCKS HE FOUND HIS NEW CALLING IN LIFE) chairs cost 40 dollars at an estate sale, spray paint 32 dollars for 8 cans!Walmart Rocks! Ikea curtains 40dollars with my handy gift card from mom! Thanks mami you Rock too!!!!!!! Then window treatment on other window by the dinning room free had one panel and cut it in half to make two window treatments! Now TCL Rocks for that!!!!!!! Dinning room table 10 DOLLARS YES on craigslist! That was a score! So ladies and gentlemen there you have it a makeover for 134 dollars!!!!!!!!