Winter Wonderland

I woke up to a snowy day. -12 degrees Celsius, but with the windchill it feels like -22.

I actually like how it looks... I keep thinking that it looks kind of magical.

What is funny is how my perception for snow had changed in the last two years.

When I got to Canada (back in September 2008) I could not wait for the first day of snow. I keep checking on the forecast hoping for a snowy day... Finally on November 9, 2008 it snowed! and guess what I did? I sat in a bench, at a park near to our apartment, for about an hour. It was magical.

Now I do not look forward for the snow! hehehehe! Now the later the snow gets here the better. I like how I get the Christmas spirit as soon as the city gets all white, but I do not like the icy roads and the messy sidewalks with a mixture of snow and sand. Oh and you know what else... I hate not wearing heals for about 5 months!

Oh well, I think this year will be different. Having our little guy with us is going to make this Christmas very special. He is such a blessing.

let try again

So here I am again... trying to keep my blog updated.. hopefully this time will work out better

Two months ago we had our first baby! What an adventure. This little guy has totally changed my perception of life. Now that we have him, there are so many things that I keep thinking about raising him as a Mexican and as a Canadian.

First of all, his name! We wanted him to have a Spanish name (just to keep the Mexican heritage on him) but at the same time, we didn't want to make his life miserable with a name that nobody in Canada would understand. So finally, after a good deliberation, we decided to name him Fernando! Fernando Aaron. And so far so good, people here in Canada seem to have no problems with the pronunciation of his name, and they even know how to spell it!

Then... his last name! Oh yeah, in Mexico we use two last names, first your dad's and then your mom's. We keep both. To keep the tradition, we decided to hyphenate his last name to keep his dad's and mine's. So my little guy ended up with a huge name! that maybe it won't even fit in his driver license! I just hope he won't hate us for that, hahahaha!

Wanna know where does my blog's title come from?

My husband and I have always said that we want to keep as much of our Mexican culture and language as we can. We will raise our kids talking to them in Spanish, we will cook Mexican food for them, we will celebrate Mexican Holidays, etc.

Of course we know that at the same time we will end up celebrating all the Canadian Holidays and we will get involve in the Canadian culture too.

So more than likely our kids will end up being some kind of Mexi-Cans (Mexican Canadians).

When I fantasize about the future, I imagine that one day one of our kids will open the fridge and ask me: Mamá, dónde está la mayonesa? (Mom, where is the mayo?), and I will reply: entre la miel de maple y la salsa (between the maple syrup and the hot salsa).

So there you go, my kids will grow up between maple syrup and hot salsa...

Hi/Hola Everybody,

I have been thinking about starting a blog for months. For some reason I kept thinking that I did not have anything interesting to write about, and that people won't be interested in reading it.

Oh well, I decided to do it for myself. I keep feeling the need to express what goes through my mind.

My main purpose is to express how I see our lives in this new journey that we started two years ago by moving to Canada.

So pardon me if I do not write in proper English, or if sometimes I end up writing in Spanish, hahaha! There some sentences that has to be written in certain language, otherwise they loose the feeling.

I hope you enjoy... here we go