mystery solved.

The case of the naked vanity:

Upon arriving in Dubai I found myself so caught up in the whirlwind of things.

There were lace cookies to be make for the Papa, a sisters arrival, Andres not having seen anything of Dubai, A desert safari to attend, a trip to Karama, and many life choices to make .

It took me days to un-pack my bags.

When I finally un-packed I emptied my coin purse onto the vanity next to my bed.

The coins were all either Ecuadorian or from the States.

Naturally I could not use these coins in Dubai.

I thought that would be a safe enough place for them considering it is my room and no little eyes and hands usually go in there.

Now fast forward a week or two.

I am in the middle of doing something important (I don't remember what at the time.) and Micah walks by me on his way out the door and tells me that the Baby took my money.

He told me all about how he saw the Baby take the money off of my vanity.

I asked him why he didn't stop the Baby if he saw it happen. 

He just looked guilty and walked outside.

Later I went to my room and noticed that the pile of coins on my vanity had turned into 2 Ecuador coins and 2 dimes.

I confronted Micah the next day.

I asked him where my money was.

"What happened to it?"

"You didn't take any of it did you?"

He then refuses to look me in the eye and tells me

"The Baby put it in his diaper and he pooped on it."

I was obviously upset.

Two days ago Lilly and I sat down to count the money in her piggy bank.

I was not surprised when I find a 10 cent Ecuadorian coin in her bank.

I play it off as nothing and go on with counting.

We then decide to count Micah's bank just for the practice of counting money.

Within Micah's bank we find around 4 dollars worth of Ecuador money.

The little stinker thought that if he put a few coins in Lilly and Josiahs banks then we wouldn't realize it was he that took them.

Good thinking leaving 4 coins still there and

smooth move on blaming the Baby too.

I don't doubt that the Baby may have had a hand in it, but I think Micah was the biggest culprit.

All in all, I feel quite proud of myself for solving the case, and happy that the money was not in the Baby's diaper like Micah had told me.

So Blessed

How blessed am I.

I love that everyday I get to see my boy.

I hope that I never take him for granted.

It means so much more having him here now

after spending so many months in different Countries 

on different continents.

I'm not going to lie,

It was not fun having to long distance date,

but it has made it that much more special having him with me now.

A week or so back we had some issues with his visa.

When I found out that he may have to go back to Ecuador

I cried for almost the entire day.

People warned me that things might change 

after the 6 month mark.

Here we are at more than 7 months 

and I love him more now than i did 2 months ago.

He is kind of wonderful.

Lo amo con todo mi corazon.

Look they have another song together. I didn't even know!!

I put this on pretty much to remind me to show my Dad.

I just looked at my blog stats and saw that I have 2 views from Egypt in the last week.
My Mom must be checking up on me while on vacation.
No good.
Don't worry Mom, if the house was falling apart I wouldn't blog it until you were home.
I did clean the downstairs bathrooms today so that should bring you comfort.

If the actual music video for this song was more like this then I might actually like this song. Not to mention I would be able to tolerate the video.

Silly lady

Lilly and I had a funny talk the other day.

She and I were alone in the kitchen.

My mom went out with Josiah and Andres.

Everyone else was napping.

I had just made some mac-n-cheese for Lilly and I.

She sat on the counter and I at a bar stool.

I thought it would be funny to pick her brain a little and see what she was thinking about life.

Being almost 6 and all I figure she would have some ideas worth hearing.

I asked her when she thought she wanted to get married?

She told me that she wanted to get married when she was a grown up "like 17 maybe.".

I then asked her what sort of man she wanted to marry.

"Someone like Baba, or someone more like Daddy maybe?"

She then said VERY seriously

"Baba is married to Grandma and Daddy is married to Mommy!"

I then explained what I meant.

She then says" maybe I want to marry someone like you."

"like me? what do you mean?"

She says, "Someone like Andres maybe."

Then she proceeds to tell me that maybe she wants to marry Andres himself, once she turns 17 of course.

Then I said, "what if I wanted to marry Andres?"
And she told me that I need to start looking for someone else because she was going to marry him.

She then made sure to add," You can still love him though!"

When I asked her why she likes Andres so much she said "Because he plays games with me, and he likes to snuggle."

Seems like a pretty legit reason to me.

Pockets of Perfection: Chicken Empanadas

Pockets of Perfection: Chicken Empanadas

I think I will be testing out this recipe in the next few days.

I have been in such a cooking mood since getting to Dubai.

Months and months without the option has done this to me.

I kind of like this boy....

ALOT

I'm not ready for it to be the new year.

Not ready for my life to be all over the place again.

Not ready to have to start a new job with new people and new everything.

Not ready to start school at a new place.

Not ready to learn my way around new roads.

Not ready to learn my way around a new kitchen's cupboards. 

Not ready to learn a new phone number and address.

Just not ready.

In the last 16 months I have lived in 3 different countries that speak 3 different official languages.

I have lived in 5 different houses (some of them for only a matter of weeks but still had to up-pack and re-pack).

I have met so many new people that I cannot even begin to remember.

I have spent more time in airports and on airplanes then I like to admit.

I am tired of running and moving, yet the opportunity of settling down is scaring me senseless.

My hopes for this new year is 

that I can simply find a place to 

call home for at least a little while.

Long enough for me to find some good friends, 

good places to eat,

where things are located in the kitchen,

and the stores with the best sales.

 

Made ravioli from scratch today.

I was very happy that after spending 3  or more hours on them, 

they turned out wonderfully.

They even passed the Micah test.

This boy is the pickiest little eater.

After testing a little bit of one he got really excited 

to eat more and even had seconds.

Sorry I have neglected blogging.

I am going to try getting back into the habit.

Andres is watching the movie Munich right now and it is a bit too gory for me.

I figured I would blog while he watched  it.

Not really sure what more to say.

How about just some pics?

Outside the Dubai mall.

Dubai mall aquarium 

Dubai fountain show.

Coffey women Coffee date.

In Dubai.

Don't feel like blogging.
Not going to blog.
Sorry guys.
My family is here,
my boy is here,
my dog is here.
Finding little motivation for blogging.

Bought some pretty feather earrings today though.