Today my daughter went to Lisbon in a school trip. Although she has participated in other field trips, it is always with great emotion that I wave her goodbye when the bus leaves the departure place.

Since pre-school that the school organizes a trip to a certain place before Christmas holidays.

Today she is going to visit the Oceanário and …

My son entered to the 6th grade and he thinks we can trust him has a responsible boy.

The school he attends had a id card system used as information about what the children are authorized to do or not. They use a id badge printer to print out an ID card to all the children. If the parents authorize …

Today it was the first day of Summer Holidays for the kids. They stayed at home last week with my husband due to my father’s funeral but now he is back to work and I’m jobless therefore at home.

The kids woke up at 11am and although everything was just fine at first, they soon become very active and screaming at each other. Oh boy!!

One week ago my father died and today my mother came to my house to have lunch with us and spend the afternoon. Although very emotive when she meets someone that gives her condolences, but I’m sure soon she will overcome it.

At lunch time I had the visit of my ex-coworker, his wife and daughter. They…

Today my kids decided to go camping…in my dressing room.

Blankets, sleeping bags, pillows…everything on the floor. No tent but they have video games to play. It’s going to be an interesting night.…

What the hell is that? It is what you are thinking, isn’t it?

Well, in Portugal it is Carnival (Carnaval for us. Last Friday children went with their costumes to school and this photo shows my kids costumes.

Usually from Friday to Tuesday the kids and adults put on their costumes and go to the streets or local parties. This …

I have a baptism invitation on my library of a neighbor that I kept because it has a beautiful picture of the girl that was going to be baptized. My daughter one of these days asked me: Where are our baptism invitations? Well, that’s a great question. There aren’t no baptism invitations of my children simply because they are …

This week was not an easy each both my kids had to take antibiotics but different reasons and I felt like running from one place to another taking care of one and the other.

My daughter had her 3rd tooth falling and it caused an infection because it was very difficult for it to fall. Due to the infection the …

I always forget to take pictures. I hate when that happens.

Last Winter my son’s bed went to my daughter’s room so that they were more cozy during the cold nights. This year we decided to do the opposite. As my son’s room it’s bigger we put my daughter’s bed on my son’s room. Well, my husband it’s the one …

Well, kids are getting excited with Christmas and Christmas presents are a daily subject. From a guitar to a skate, from a Doctor Nenuco (doll) to a Skater Barbie this year we have a huge different from the last years. My son is not requesting very expensive presents. No Wii, no video games, no cell phones, no expensive gadgets. …

I am an only child so no brothers or sisters. Although it was nice not to have to struggle over things with another child, I can say I was a very lonely child. That’s why I always said I would like to have two children of my own so that they could have what I never had, a bother or …

My husband just ended his two weeks holidays and tomorrow he is going back to work. The four of us had two weeks full time together and we had our higher and lower moments.

Having to cope with two kids with five years apart is not easy and can be really hard sometimes, but we managed to survive and we …