It’s done. The green we had around the house is almost gone. The green is disappearing all over the place; sometimes replaced by new buildings other times it’s just a wood business where the land owners sell the wood to furniture companies.

Having a green environment around the house is an advantage. We wake up with the birds singing, when …

School is almost ending and this will be the first time in my life that I will be with the kids at home during summer vacations. I really don’t know how it is going to be. My husband will be working and only having vacations in August so I will be dealing with two active and demanding kids by myself.

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Today I took the day off and stayed with my kids at home. This is their last day of holidays because Monday the 2009/2010 school year begins.

I invited my two nephews to spend the afternoon in my house so I had four children here. They spent most of the afternoon playing in the pool so I had water all …

Last week we went to Lisbon

First we eat on the Vasco da Gama and then we visited the Oceanario de Lisboa. We had been there with my son 7 years ago and we wanted to show him and my daughter the beauties there are in the ocean.

We had this visit scheduled since last year. Although we didn’t …

Although the sun is shining and it’s hot, the wind blows too much to go to the beach. So, holidays at home.

This weekend I was having a conversation with a neighbor about how much we need holidays and where to go and she asked why don’t I go to the south of the country to a camping park. Camping …

The first holiday week is over. I must confess we sometimes have a hard time with the kids because they are so stubborn but overall everything went smoothly.

Monday we went to a slide & splash park and the kids loved it. It has those big slides that my son loves and, without getting tired he slided over and over …

Having a swimming pool at home means a lot of fun. But…there is always a but eh?

Having a swimming pool at home also means that I might have a lot of unexpected guests like neighbors, family members or my kids friends.

Having a swimming pool at home means that my kids have fun without us leaving the house.

Having …

My son drove me into playing Tribal Wars. He loves the game and wanted me to join. I must confess I was not very attracted to the game because I think thought it was very boring. He ended up forcing me to sign up and now I’m playing Tribal Wars every day.

Basically Tribal Wars is like the name says, …

As promised here is our Christmas Tree. No gifts under it because we don’t trust the kids.  On the floor we have the too chocolate calendars that they check every day for the daily chocolate. The decorations are the same from the previous years and we decided not to spend money buying new ones this year. As we have no …

I had a very stressful weekend. The kids are very demanding when it comes to my attention. I thought that the older the more independent but it turns out be the contrary.

My kids want me to be a constant presence in their lives when it comes to play games or just watch TV. If they are going to watch …

Another gift my son wants for Christmas is Scrabble. From Wikipedia:

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference

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