Hoje a noite provavelmente eu teria algo mais util para estar fazendo, mas quando fui procurar o manual do aquecedor movel que o D tinha me pedido para achar, dei de cara com meu pacote de cartinhas que ganhei e colecionei ao longo dos anos e resolvi dar uma relembrada no que deixei lah guardado. Entao, depois da janta e depois de colocar a Rebequinha pra dormir e o D pra jogar videogame, fui dar uma boa fucada na minha "caixinha" de lembrancas!
E tive a ideia de postar aqui as melhores lembrancas, ou pelo menos as que me pareceram mais interessantes a mim nesse momento. Preparem-se pois pode estar nascendo um post gigante! Esperamos que nao neh? Ainda mais pq vou ter que o traduzir para o ingles depois.... Bem, as lembrancas que contarei aqui nao tem ordem cronologica mas sigo a ordem em que estavam na minha "caixinha".
A primeira delas eh uma cartinha em papel de caderno que ganhei da minha amiga de faculdade Claudia por ocasiao do meu aniversario de 19 anos. E dessa cartinha tiro a seguinte frase, muito inspirada por sinal: "Espero que seu fds de aniversario seja muito feliz e que voce, mesmo se nao alcancar tudo que deseja, seja muito feliz com o que tem." Interessante, nao?
A segunda que me aparece eh umas das inumeras cartinhas que recebi na minha amigona de vida Erica e minha madrinha de casamento. No caso dessa cartinha, ela apenas me escreveu para dizer que a mae dela tinha comprado um pacote de pastilhas de chocolate com sabor de menta e como ela sabia que eu gostava (ex. meu sabor de sorvete favorito eh de o menta com chocolate!) entao ela tinha colocado uns chocolatinhos para me dar junto com a cartinha! E ainda me deixou a dica de "consumir com cafe (se voce gostar, eh claro!)". Erica, te amo amiga!! Infelizmente nao tenho o ano dessa carta mas acho que foi em 2003.
Tambem tenho aqui um cartaozinho que EU dei a minha mae de dia das maes no ano de 1996. Pois eh, roubei da minha mae para ter como lembranca de como era a minha letra e de quao peca rara eu era (sera q ainda sou?) para ter escrito a ela: "Querida mamae, eu nao tenho dinheiro o bastante para comprar um presente caro; quando eu tiver, dou a voce um presente melhor. Eu sei que o vale eh a intencao, entao eu espero que voce goste desse presente simples e receba como uma lembranca especial. Beijos e abracos de Gabriela. 12/05/96". Po, nem falei "Eu te amo"? haha
Tenho aqui tambem outro item roubado! Eh um cartao de Natal em branco que o meu proprio avozinho falecido Adolfo desenhou com suas talentosas maos! Minha mae sempre me disse que minhas maos lembravam a ela as maos do vovo. Bem, sempre achei interessante que nos dois fossemos tao ligados na arte de desenhar! Como minha mae dizia, meu avo ganhou a vida com a sua arte! =)
Tenho aqui tambem a cartinha de uma amiga minha da escola - Natalia Z. - quando jah tinha acabado o colegial, e cada uma seguiria o seu proprio caminho, mas o engracado eh o jeitao dessa minha amiga que chegou a dizer que o cartaozinho era "tosk", hehe! Me desejava "forca" no dia 04/02/04 em que saberia se tinha passado na Unicamp ou nao! E disse que estaria torcendo por mim aonde quer que eu estivesse, fosse em cps, sp ou no Japao! haha Gostaria de lembrar a todos que eu ainda nao tinha conhecido o amor da minha vida, meu marido japones, o D, portanto achei interessante mencionar essa cartinha aqui!
Tenho aqui tbm uma cartinha de uma menininha chamada Luciana. Eu por muito tempo fui monitora de um clubinho de meninas (nos seus 10 anos, mais ou menos) e como eu estava indo embora para me dedicar mais ao vestibular, ela me mandou essa cartinha, cheia de coisas engracadas, erros ortograficos, desenhos, adesivos e etc tudo muito tipico de criancas! Adorei neh?
Agora eh a vez do cartao de aniversario mais demais da conta que eu jah recebi, da minha amiga aqui jah mencionada, a Erica! Esse vou contar quase todos os detalhes! Quando eu fiz 20 anos - deixa ver, ano 2006 entao! - ela me fez um livrinho de varias paginas, cheio de coisinhas engracadinhas relembrando fatos engracados da minha vida! Ela comeca com um trecho do livro Eclesiastes (3, 1-8), que menciona que na vida ha um tempo pra tudo, pra rir e outro chorar, para ganhar e outro para perder, e etc!
Continuando: Depois comecou a contar um pouco do que me era mais caracteristico de mais futil! Isto eh, coisas bobinhas, como futura engenheira, sorvete de menta, devoradora de saladas, tenista, roger federer, loira (na epoca eu era!) e "admiradora de uns olhos puxados" (Eu ainda nao tinha conhecido o D!), odiadora de tutus (a nossa ex tartaruga de estimacao, eca!), odiadora do portugues abreviado (tipo "ksa", nuss.... bregaaa) e atriz de teatro nas Rurais (projeto social) - eterno Pluft, talvez?? haha. A motorista (fui tirar minha carteira soh aos 19 mas queria desde que nasci!! Jah dizia a minha mae qdo minha brincadeira favorita era fazer baliza com aqueles triciclos de brinquedo, sabe? haha) e Relembrando minha mais famosa "estoria" sobre meu incidente de carro na ilustre "Jump City" rs! (Saudades da Maybes e Pop)!
Continuando ainda: Depois me aderessando algumas palavras pessoais, colando um cartaozinho do infame Garfield com os dizeres "Soh mando cartoes de aniversario para as melhores pessoas!" =) e terminando com um trecho do texto "Terapia da Amizade" de Kais P. Dotterweich e John D. Perry. DEMAIS, neh???
Agora mais uma carta da Erica, no meu aniversario de 22 anos com um trecho de um texto de Rudyard Kipling (sera o mesmo das bolsas? brinks... Mas serio, aonde ela arranja tanto texto daora??): "Se na luta o destino te derrubar; Se tudo em teu caminho for dificil de alcancar, se teu sorriso for ansia insatisfeita; se houver semadura excessiva e pessima colheita; se ao teu caudal se puserem diques; dah uma tegua a ti mesmo, mas nao claudiques." Erica, jah falei que te amo?
E ainda mais uma da Erica (das apenas selecionadas, eu digo) em 2005 quando ela menciona no final: "Esse ano, eh voce no volante!". Eu realmente devia estar louca para comecar a dirigir, rs!!
Agora a proxima eh uma cartinha da minha querida mamae quando ela me enviou por correio um fetinho de gesso de 10 semanas, quando eu ainda estava gravida da minha primeira gestacao (sim, tive um aborto natural). Mas soh queria dizer q esse gessinho eh a coisa mais linda do mundo, todo perfeitinho, e que me faz lembrar todo dia do nosso primeiro filhinho que jah esta feliz no Ceu! Todo dia dou um beijinho nele!
O proximo, eh outro item roubado! rs! Eh um cartao postal da minha falecida vo Nair quando ela foi a Paris e quando ainda moravamos no predio, mew!! Por causa desse postal tenho registrado o nosso primeiro endereco guardado pra sempre!
O proximo eh cartao de Natal feito a mao pela habilidosa Mayara K. mas co-assinado por todas as meninas de Barao que pegavam carona comigo toda quarta a noite e alguns sabados. O cartao eh aderessado a "Nossa motorista oficial de Barao".
Agora uma cartinha - inha mesmo - de minha irma Paula e em que me pergunta como anda a loucura de fim da facul, e a "espera do namorado (futuro maridao! Esperamos!)". haha, engracadinho!!
Agora um cartao da minha outra irma, Lara, que ela me entregou no dia do meu casamento, no qual caprichou meeesmo na letra e no capricho, e comecou logo dizendo: "ate pouco tempo atras, eu estava com ciumes dos D". Hahaha, o resto eh pessoal! =)
Tambem tenho aqui uma cartinha (desenhos apenas, na verdade) de alguma irma minha pequena! Nao sei quem eh pois esqueceu de assinar! rs! Tenho vaaaarios desenhos guardados das minhas pequenas!
E aqui tbm tenho guardado o meu primeiro e eterno desenho do Harry Potter como eu o imaginava na minha cabeca! Quem nao gosta de um palido, cabelos negros e olhos verdes? rs
Tambem tenho guardado um desenho que a Mariana K. me fez das sailor moons! Adoravaaa! E o desenho esta muito bonito e colorido, por sinal!!
A proxima eh uma folha de agenda, em que meu pai me escreveu uma breve mensagem de feliz aniversario, no ano de 1998, pois ele tinha saido de madrugada para pegar aviao em uma viagem de negocios! Eu estava fazendo 12 anos e era a primeira vez que meu pai perdia o aniversario de algum filho! Mas esse tipo de delicadeza, na epoca nao tao abundante, da parte de meu pai, fez eu me lembrar como nunca desse aniversario, mais do que os outros!
Tah terminando, tah gente? Mas continuando. Tenho aqui um desenho que fiz de uma casa que eu achava muito bonita em Barao e que eu passava varias vezes por ela a pe quando ia para a facul! O desenho esta inacabado, mas muito legal, na minha humilde opiniao! Foi em 2005, aeee, lembrei de por a data!!
Por fim, tenho aqui um postal de minha amiga Ju Ueno direto da Suecia ou como ela mesma disse "jah estou aqui no polo norte =)", uma carta gigante da Silvinha P. L. como ela mesma assinava e como lhe era habitual (cartas lindas, perfeitas, engracadissimas, total nonsense e GIGANTES!) e tambem e finalmente, uma plaquinha de metal com o meu nome "Gabriela" (assim certinho mesmo!!) que meus pais trouxeram de NY.
Ufa!! Ate cansei!! Mas achei legal compartilhar! Acho que pelas lembrancas especialmente selecionadas e guardadas, e na maioria de terceira autoria, dah pra conhecer bem mais sobre uma pessoa nao eh??
Ate mais!! - q preguicaaaa do post em ingles.....
Friday, September 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
5th dating anniversary
On the 21th of September D and I celebrated our 5th "dating" anniversary. By this I want to mean the anniversary of our first date, on that college party when we first kissed! I already told all the details here in the first posts so this time I want to write about something different!
I'll tell ya how we celebrated our dating anniversary on each of these 5 past years but very shortly except for our 4th anniversary which was kinda of a funny story! So, that said, let's get to it!
So on our first anniversary, unfortunately D was already here in the US while I was still there in Brazil, so we couldn't celebrate it together and in person. So I guess he ended up buying me some flowers online. Yeah, I guess that's what happened!
On our second anniversary, he was still in the US and I in Brazil, but this time we were already engaged to get married and I wanted to show him my love with a special gift, delivered by mail. So, three or four months before our date I decided I would make a thousand "tsurus" (that bird of japanese folding) because I heard it was a common and a nice gesture people would do to show their appreciation to their loved one. Well, I guess not so common after all, lol. I also wrote a nice letter, recorded a CD with some nice songs, bought a booklet on the "miss you" subject and put everything in a nice box and sprayed some of his favorite perfume and voila. He loved the gift and I never made one more tsuru in my life, after that. lol
On our third anniversary we were already married and we were living under the same roof but because of some problems we were separated again because I was in Brazil solving some things. This time, we didn't celebrated and only talked on skype.
On our fourth anniversary, Rebecca was already born and she was a lit bit older than 20 days and it was our first anniversary together! So, I remember we all have attended the 6pm mass on a Tuesday and we were still deciding whether or not to celebrate our anniversary (we'd almost forgotten about it). Then we decided finally for celebrating it even though we were specially short in money during that time and we had just bought a new car in a thousand payments. So we looked at ourselves and we were kinda groomed so we decided we would go from there to a nice restaurant, right away.
So we thought about going to the best one in the city because, well, we have been so many times to the second better one, so it shouldn't be a big difference from the first one, right? We're so wrong... So, we got there, a fancy dressed man opened the door for us and we sat down. The decor was very fancy too! Then D turned to me and said we'd just passed through a table in which some of his professors were sitting. Ok. We opened the menu, and, oh boy, it was expensive....
Look, we really considered leaving the place but we'd already seated and we were recognized by D's professors so we had no option other than face that fat bill. Well, so let's do it! I asked for a salmon. Actually I had not understood, but it was actually a fine pastry (fish shaped) with salmon, crab meat and cream filled! It was very delicious, actually! D, asked for a huge steak (never saw one bigger) - classic - and the sauces were phenomenal - said with a british accent, please! =) "Wine?" - asked the waiter. "No, thank you". lol I guess we were the only people there who weren't drinking wine. lol
Well, the waiter at some point asked if we were celebrating a special occasion and we - naively - said "Yes! It's our dating anniversary". Then, after checking the confused face of the waiter we kinda noticed how awkward it sounded. It looked like we were still dating and already had a baby together... haha. Well, it was kinda funny/tragic. End of story, we payed a total of $100! Owa, I was just calculating mentally how many times we could have eaten in a normal restaurant with that amount of a single time!
Well, and for our latest anniversary we had a sweet friend volunteering to watch Rebecca over (in that case, it was already bed time, so she was sleeping all the time) so we could go out the two of us, only, for the first time here in the US, so we went to BJ's for a good pizza (I like the dough that tastes alcohol somehow, I think) and for theirs pizookie! Yum! We had the triple chocolate one! And actually we also had soup (check online for their special for two for 20 dollars since they don't advertise this at the place). Just remembering you that I'm still enjoying my recent comeback to the dairy products since I've stopped breastfeeding and Rebecca now loves the Silk Soy milk Very Vanilla we buy and she is used to the bottle now and finally!!
And once more, I just want to mention that I adore and love very much my sweet husband and my always valentine, D! What a good man he is, one that only gets better everyday! I'm aware of my luck to have him in my life as my partner!
I'll tell ya how we celebrated our dating anniversary on each of these 5 past years but very shortly except for our 4th anniversary which was kinda of a funny story! So, that said, let's get to it!
So on our first anniversary, unfortunately D was already here in the US while I was still there in Brazil, so we couldn't celebrate it together and in person. So I guess he ended up buying me some flowers online. Yeah, I guess that's what happened!
On our second anniversary, he was still in the US and I in Brazil, but this time we were already engaged to get married and I wanted to show him my love with a special gift, delivered by mail. So, three or four months before our date I decided I would make a thousand "tsurus" (that bird of japanese folding) because I heard it was a common and a nice gesture people would do to show their appreciation to their loved one. Well, I guess not so common after all, lol. I also wrote a nice letter, recorded a CD with some nice songs, bought a booklet on the "miss you" subject and put everything in a nice box and sprayed some of his favorite perfume and voila. He loved the gift and I never made one more tsuru in my life, after that. lol
On our third anniversary we were already married and we were living under the same roof but because of some problems we were separated again because I was in Brazil solving some things. This time, we didn't celebrated and only talked on skype.
On our fourth anniversary, Rebecca was already born and she was a lit bit older than 20 days and it was our first anniversary together! So, I remember we all have attended the 6pm mass on a Tuesday and we were still deciding whether or not to celebrate our anniversary (we'd almost forgotten about it). Then we decided finally for celebrating it even though we were specially short in money during that time and we had just bought a new car in a thousand payments. So we looked at ourselves and we were kinda groomed so we decided we would go from there to a nice restaurant, right away.
So we thought about going to the best one in the city because, well, we have been so many times to the second better one, so it shouldn't be a big difference from the first one, right? We're so wrong... So, we got there, a fancy dressed man opened the door for us and we sat down. The decor was very fancy too! Then D turned to me and said we'd just passed through a table in which some of his professors were sitting. Ok. We opened the menu, and, oh boy, it was expensive....
Look, we really considered leaving the place but we'd already seated and we were recognized by D's professors so we had no option other than face that fat bill. Well, so let's do it! I asked for a salmon. Actually I had not understood, but it was actually a fine pastry (fish shaped) with salmon, crab meat and cream filled! It was very delicious, actually! D, asked for a huge steak (never saw one bigger) - classic - and the sauces were phenomenal - said with a british accent, please! =) "Wine?" - asked the waiter. "No, thank you". lol I guess we were the only people there who weren't drinking wine. lol
Well, the waiter at some point asked if we were celebrating a special occasion and we - naively - said "Yes! It's our dating anniversary". Then, after checking the confused face of the waiter we kinda noticed how awkward it sounded. It looked like we were still dating and already had a baby together... haha. Well, it was kinda funny/tragic. End of story, we payed a total of $100! Owa, I was just calculating mentally how many times we could have eaten in a normal restaurant with that amount of a single time!
Well, and for our latest anniversary we had a sweet friend volunteering to watch Rebecca over (in that case, it was already bed time, so she was sleeping all the time) so we could go out the two of us, only, for the first time here in the US, so we went to BJ's for a good pizza (I like the dough that tastes alcohol somehow, I think) and for theirs pizookie! Yum! We had the triple chocolate one! And actually we also had soup (check online for their special for two for 20 dollars since they don't advertise this at the place). Just remembering you that I'm still enjoying my recent comeback to the dairy products since I've stopped breastfeeding and Rebecca now loves the Silk Soy milk Very Vanilla we buy and she is used to the bottle now and finally!!
And once more, I just want to mention that I adore and love very much my sweet husband and my always valentine, D! What a good man he is, one that only gets better everyday! I'm aware of my luck to have him in my life as my partner!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
5 Anos de Namoro
Amanha dia 21 de Setembro eu e o D completaremos cinco anos de namoro desde aquela fatidica festa em que demos o nosso primeiro beijo! Eu jah contei todos os detalhes de como tudo isso aconteceu nos primeiros posts do blog entao eu queria escrever hoje sobre uma coisa diferente!
Vou escrever como foram nossas comemoracoes ao longo dos anos, mas de forma bem resumida com excecao do ano passado, q vou contar mais detalhes porque acabou sendo uma historia engracada! Mas enfim, vamos lah!
Entao no nosso primeiro aniversario de namoro, infelizmente o D jah estava nos EUA entao nao pudemos comemorar pessoalmente. Acho que ele acabou me comprando flores pela internet e mandou entregar em casa! Eh, acho que foi isso mesmo!
No segundo ano, ele tambem estava nos EUA, mas dessa vez, jah estavamos noivos eu quis mandar pra ele um presente super especial por corrreio!! Entao, tres ou quatro meses antes do nosso aniversario resolvi fazer 1000 tsurus (aquele passaro de dobradura japonesa) pois parece que eh comum fazer isso e dar para alguem como um ato de amor. Ok, nem tao comum assim, rs! Tbm escrevi uma cartinha, gravei um CD de musicas, comprei um livrinho sobre "Saudades", coloquei tudo numa caixa bonitnha, borrifei o perfume q ele gostava e mandei para os EUA. Ele amou o presente! E eu nunca mais fiz um tsuru na minha vida desde entao. =)
No terceiro ano, jah estavamos casados desde janeiro, mas por conta de "coisas da vida" nao estavamos juntos novamente pois eu estava no Brasil resolvendo uns pepinos! Dessa vez o aniversario passou em branco mesmo com direito a skype, apenas!
No quarto ano, isto eh, no ano passado, a Rebecca jah tinha pouco mais que 20 dias de vida e foi o primeiro aniversario de namoro que estavamos passando juntos! Entao, lembro que fomos na missa todos juntos, e estavamos ainda decidindo se iamos sair pra comer fora ou nao! Dai, nos dois reparamos que tinhamos que comemorar sim, que tudo bem que dinheiro nao estava sobrando (o D ainda nem tinha recebido o aumento de salario que estavamos precisando e tinhamos acabado de comprar um carro zero em mil prestacoes), mas tinhamos que comemorar! Entao, na volta da missa, olhamos pra gente e pensamos: Eh! Ate que estamos arrumadinhos, de banho tomado! Vamos achar um restaurante legal agora!"
Dai a gente lembrou que tinha um bom restaurante na nossa cidade, que era o melhor da cidade! Oras, a gente jah tinha ido no segundo melhor restaurante da cidade varias vezes, a diferenca para o primeiro nao poderia ser muita, neh? Bem, vamos entao para lah!!! Bem, chegando na porta do restaurante, D, eu e Rebequinha na cadeirinha do carro, e um cara de terno abrindo a porta pra gente, e bele neh!! Entramos e lah dentro era super chic! Sentamos! O D vira pra mim e fala que tinhamos acabado de passar por uma mesa em que ele conhecia varias professores da universidade. Abrimos o menu...... o prato individual mais barato era 40 dolares!!
Olha... ate cogitamos ir embora, mas como jah tinhamos sentado e o D tinha sido reconhecido por umas pessoas logo que entramos, nao teve jeito! Tivemos que encarar o tamanho da conta!! Bem, eu pedi um salmao, que nao tinha entendido direito quando li a descricao, mas veio empanado numa pastry em forma de peixe! =) Bonitinho! E tava bem gostoso! Alem de salmao tinha carne de caranguejo e um requeijao gostoso! Bem, o D pediu um super steak - nunca vi maior - e os molhos eram sensacionais!! "Vinho?" perguntou a garconete! "Nao, muito obrigada!" rs Acho que eramos os unicos que nao tinhamos pedido vinho para acompanhar!! rs
Bem, meio que no comeco a garconete veio perguntar se era alguma ocasiao especial e dissemos que sim! Dissemos que era aniversario de namoro! E ela entao veio me trazer uma bonita rosa vermelha! Soh depois reparamos que pegou meio mal.... pareceu que estavamos ainda namorando e jah tinhamos um bebe, ainda mais que temos cara de novinhos, hahaha! Foi engracado/tragico. Bem, final da historia: 100 dolares! Uau! Soh fiquei calculando quantas vezes a gente podia ter saido pra jantar em um restaurante normal com aquele valor de uma unica vez!
Bem, e agora, no nosso quinto aniversario vamos chamar uma amiga para ficar em casa enquanto a Rebecca dorme e a gente vai jantar em um restaurante bonitinho aqui perto (BJ's) e comer uma pizza e se sobrar espaco, alguma sobremesa! Lembrando a todos que estou aproveitando a minha recem volta aos produtos de leite, jah que parei de amamentar a Rebecca! Alias, por sinal, ela agora jah se adaptou a mamadeira e ao leite de soja "very vanilla" =)!
E para finalizar, soh quero dizer que adoro e amo muito o meu marido e eterno namorado, o D! Que homem bom que ele eh e como tenho consciencia de minha sorte por ter alguem como ele por meu companheiro!!
Vou escrever como foram nossas comemoracoes ao longo dos anos, mas de forma bem resumida com excecao do ano passado, q vou contar mais detalhes porque acabou sendo uma historia engracada! Mas enfim, vamos lah!
Entao no nosso primeiro aniversario de namoro, infelizmente o D jah estava nos EUA entao nao pudemos comemorar pessoalmente. Acho que ele acabou me comprando flores pela internet e mandou entregar em casa! Eh, acho que foi isso mesmo!
No segundo ano, ele tambem estava nos EUA, mas dessa vez, jah estavamos noivos eu quis mandar pra ele um presente super especial por corrreio!! Entao, tres ou quatro meses antes do nosso aniversario resolvi fazer 1000 tsurus (aquele passaro de dobradura japonesa) pois parece que eh comum fazer isso e dar para alguem como um ato de amor. Ok, nem tao comum assim, rs! Tbm escrevi uma cartinha, gravei um CD de musicas, comprei um livrinho sobre "Saudades", coloquei tudo numa caixa bonitnha, borrifei o perfume q ele gostava e mandei para os EUA. Ele amou o presente! E eu nunca mais fiz um tsuru na minha vida desde entao. =)
No terceiro ano, jah estavamos casados desde janeiro, mas por conta de "coisas da vida" nao estavamos juntos novamente pois eu estava no Brasil resolvendo uns pepinos! Dessa vez o aniversario passou em branco mesmo com direito a skype, apenas!
No quarto ano, isto eh, no ano passado, a Rebecca jah tinha pouco mais que 20 dias de vida e foi o primeiro aniversario de namoro que estavamos passando juntos! Entao, lembro que fomos na missa todos juntos, e estavamos ainda decidindo se iamos sair pra comer fora ou nao! Dai, nos dois reparamos que tinhamos que comemorar sim, que tudo bem que dinheiro nao estava sobrando (o D ainda nem tinha recebido o aumento de salario que estavamos precisando e tinhamos acabado de comprar um carro zero em mil prestacoes), mas tinhamos que comemorar! Entao, na volta da missa, olhamos pra gente e pensamos: Eh! Ate que estamos arrumadinhos, de banho tomado! Vamos achar um restaurante legal agora!"
Dai a gente lembrou que tinha um bom restaurante na nossa cidade, que era o melhor da cidade! Oras, a gente jah tinha ido no segundo melhor restaurante da cidade varias vezes, a diferenca para o primeiro nao poderia ser muita, neh? Bem, vamos entao para lah!!! Bem, chegando na porta do restaurante, D, eu e Rebequinha na cadeirinha do carro, e um cara de terno abrindo a porta pra gente, e bele neh!! Entramos e lah dentro era super chic! Sentamos! O D vira pra mim e fala que tinhamos acabado de passar por uma mesa em que ele conhecia varias professores da universidade. Abrimos o menu...... o prato individual mais barato era 40 dolares!!
Olha... ate cogitamos ir embora, mas como jah tinhamos sentado e o D tinha sido reconhecido por umas pessoas logo que entramos, nao teve jeito! Tivemos que encarar o tamanho da conta!! Bem, eu pedi um salmao, que nao tinha entendido direito quando li a descricao, mas veio empanado numa pastry em forma de peixe! =) Bonitinho! E tava bem gostoso! Alem de salmao tinha carne de caranguejo e um requeijao gostoso! Bem, o D pediu um super steak - nunca vi maior - e os molhos eram sensacionais!! "Vinho?" perguntou a garconete! "Nao, muito obrigada!" rs Acho que eramos os unicos que nao tinhamos pedido vinho para acompanhar!! rs
Bem, meio que no comeco a garconete veio perguntar se era alguma ocasiao especial e dissemos que sim! Dissemos que era aniversario de namoro! E ela entao veio me trazer uma bonita rosa vermelha! Soh depois reparamos que pegou meio mal.... pareceu que estavamos ainda namorando e jah tinhamos um bebe, ainda mais que temos cara de novinhos, hahaha! Foi engracado/tragico. Bem, final da historia: 100 dolares! Uau! Soh fiquei calculando quantas vezes a gente podia ter saido pra jantar em um restaurante normal com aquele valor de uma unica vez!
Bem, e agora, no nosso quinto aniversario vamos chamar uma amiga para ficar em casa enquanto a Rebecca dorme e a gente vai jantar em um restaurante bonitinho aqui perto (BJ's) e comer uma pizza e se sobrar espaco, alguma sobremesa! Lembrando a todos que estou aproveitando a minha recem volta aos produtos de leite, jah que parei de amamentar a Rebecca! Alias, por sinal, ela agora jah se adaptou a mamadeira e ao leite de soja "very vanilla" =)!
E para finalizar, soh quero dizer que adoro e amo muito o meu marido e eterno namorado, o D! Que homem bom que ele eh e como tenho consciencia de minha sorte por ter alguem como ele por meu companheiro!!
Monday, September 5, 2011
Rebecca turned 1
Hello guys!!
Well, I decided I won't translate the last two posts from portuguese because I don't feel it's a good idea! Mainly because of three reasons: One, I don't feel that way anymore, it was more like a momentary feeling; Two, I think most of the people didn't think it was an inspiring thought anyway, on the contrary, although that was not my intention AT ALL and I think I was misunderstood, which it's understandable, btw. And three, because I'm lazy right now and don't feel like translating anymore!
But to compensate the fact that I won't translate the last two posts, this one I will first write in english which it's not that big of a deal since most of the people in Brazil can read in english and - in fact - I've noticed that many people DO read my english posts. So I guess many people in Brazil like reading my posts twice! Weird... I think they want to see if my english is that much better than theirs since I've been living here in the US! Well, I bet many of them are kinda disappointed with my english and all the many mistakes I make! But never mind, isn't about this that I intend to write about today!!
I got carried away by the many things and changes Rebecca is going through in the last week so I wanted to write this post really bad!! Yes, one week and sooo many things happened all just at once!! Well, first Rebecca turned one year old on Tuesday, August 30th and we threw her a little birthday party on Saturday, Aug, 27th. I remember I wrote here that we were going to give her a "water park party" but then we thought better and we realized many of our guests have really small children so it wouldn't be comfortable to them! Well, we were about to give up the idea of a party for Rebecca but D was stronger than me and he convinced me to use our small apartment to throw her a party! But we couldn't invite many people or all the people we wanted to. Well, everything went well although it was a little too crowded.
I decorated the apartment with some pink balloons, some pictures of Rebecca from her birth till now and a "happy birthday" banner or something like this, I don't know how they call it in here! (I have to pay more attention to what it's written on the label packages...). We also had two tables, one for the food and other for the sweets and cake along with some beautiful roses!! Well, about the food. We made two brazilian dishes: feijoada and chicken stroganoff. (We were having some indian guest so we opted for the chicken stroganoff not the beef one). We also made pao de queijo, we served a salad and some brazilian peanuts (ovitos).
Well, I guess we should have made our guests plates because they loved the stroganoff and didn't care much about the feijoada, which it's not very common at all when we invite people to eat only feijoada! So I guess it was a matter of not combining all the ingredients correctly since this is kinda crucial on eating feijoada! All the side dishes matter and combined they are delicious! Well, we cannot complain much about it since we had many feijoada leftovers for ourselves but I wish they had enjoyed it more! But the chicken stroganoff they really loved it! Almost everyone asked me the recipe, which I still didn't give it to them, btw... ops!
Well, about the sweets, I made one chocolate cake with walnuts filling (close to a camafeu flavor) and strawberry cupcakes with white frosting. Both were dairy free!! I discovered that some duncan hines cake mixes are dairy free so as the ready frosting we bought! So I was very happy about it since Rebecca has dairy allergy! Ok, then I also made brigadeiros, but there is no way a brigadeiro can be dairy free so Rebecca just didn't have it! I also prepared a fruits plate and bought a cool whip to eat together with the fruits but I only remember to serve it too late so I guess none of our guest ate it!
Then we opened the presents in front of everyone! Well, this is kinda traditional in here although we are not very used to it yet.... but since people were expecting it, we did it for them! Rebecca loved all the presents specially the beautiful bags and wraps! lol Classic, I know! And Rebecca had an awesome time with the people and kids around!! She was about to cry when the last guest left, poor child... I guess only mommy and daddy aren't enough for her.... "mom and dad, give a little sibling NOW!!"
Well, so that was it!! Mission accomplished!! I was kinda tense about all this party stuff.... I feel like D and I are so unprepared for this kinda of thing.... we are so all by ourselves here that I feel like we are two children that don't know exactly how things should be done.... but we made it anyway, everything turned out just fine! I can relax now!!
Now about the other things that were very exciting to us!! Well, the first one was not very exciting but I think it's kinda important to mention it. Well, Rebecca had her 12 month check up on Thursday, Sept 1st and the doctor told us she is doing fine bla bla, but... she didn't gained too much weight like the last few times. And since she is a small baby in length she was also worried about anemia (iron deficiency). So, the doctor asked for an extra appointment for the next month to check her weight and also a blood test for anemia. Besides these, since Rebecca was in Brazil for more than 3 weeks in May, she also asked for a skin TB test (tuberculosis test). So we had to come back on Saturday so they could read the results. Of course, it was negative!
Well, so the doctor made us see that we're putting Rebecca under a low fat diet... well... we realized she was correct about it! Since Rebecca is still breastfeeding but only trice a day and my breast milk was her main source of fat since she can't have cow milk instead, nor cheeses and she doesn't like to drink her soy milk in a bottle but only on her rice cereal, so she wasn't getting much fat. And the world nowadays teaches us to be very healthy but things should be different with children! Kids need fat!!! So the solution we are now trying to apply to her is to put a good amount of olive oil on her baby food after it's ready and we are putting some peanut butter on her rice cereal too! Fortunately she is enjoying both changes!
Well, now about the exciting things! Rebecca had a "word boom" this weekend!! Before, she only said "mamae" (mommy in portuguese) pretty well actually, but only this! So we wanted her to say "papai" (daddy in portuguese) pretty bad!! I remember trying to make her imitate what I just said to her, but she didn't even try!! I felt like her personality doesn't make her try when she knows she is not able to! Well, but this weekend, all of sudden, she just did it!! A perfect "papai". So she's been saying it all weekend very happily!! And also she is giving her first little steps all by herself!! And many other cool things!! Like yesterday I was reading some books for her, and I decided to test her for the first time!! And she scored high, man!!! Oh my!!! That was soooo awesome!! She showed me with her little and cute index finger the strawberries and the bananas, when I asked for it!! And also Dora and Boots!! This was sooo incredible!! And I was asking it in english!!! Also, she said "bye" and waved to the priest on Friday Mass when we asked her to!! The priest was so happy, hahaha! Aaaand, she tries to say "God bless you" when we sneeze!! I swear it!!! I noticed this a while ago but now D thinks this too!!
Well, it's been amazing to find out this new stuff Rebecca is doing!! We are overwhelmed by the fact it is all happening at once!! Also, she has two teeth already but I'm almost sure her next two teeth are about to pop out, I would say, in a week!! Which is actually a fast pace for her! And I think because of everything, now she is not so attached with my breasts!! I mean, sometimes she doesn't even want to drink my milk so I think we are now and finally ready to stop breastfeeding her!! I'm so happy I'll be able to eat milk and cheese and sweets again!! D and I've been saying it's my freedom day coming!! haha! I'm like: "Owa, I don't know what I'm going to eat first!!!".
And today is Labor Day here, so it's a holiday!! And we took Rebecca to play at a playground!! Owa, there were so many kids because of the holiday and because the weather today it's beautiful!! She enjoyed it so much!!! She even cried when we were leaving the place!!
Well, and that's it! Yes, I'm aware this post turned out HUGE, and I'm sorry, but I guess you all know me by now and you don't expect anything different, right? So sad... lol!
You all take care!!
Well, I decided I won't translate the last two posts from portuguese because I don't feel it's a good idea! Mainly because of three reasons: One, I don't feel that way anymore, it was more like a momentary feeling; Two, I think most of the people didn't think it was an inspiring thought anyway, on the contrary, although that was not my intention AT ALL and I think I was misunderstood, which it's understandable, btw. And three, because I'm lazy right now and don't feel like translating anymore!
But to compensate the fact that I won't translate the last two posts, this one I will first write in english which it's not that big of a deal since most of the people in Brazil can read in english and - in fact - I've noticed that many people DO read my english posts. So I guess many people in Brazil like reading my posts twice! Weird... I think they want to see if my english is that much better than theirs since I've been living here in the US! Well, I bet many of them are kinda disappointed with my english and all the many mistakes I make! But never mind, isn't about this that I intend to write about today!!
I got carried away by the many things and changes Rebecca is going through in the last week so I wanted to write this post really bad!! Yes, one week and sooo many things happened all just at once!! Well, first Rebecca turned one year old on Tuesday, August 30th and we threw her a little birthday party on Saturday, Aug, 27th. I remember I wrote here that we were going to give her a "water park party" but then we thought better and we realized many of our guests have really small children so it wouldn't be comfortable to them! Well, we were about to give up the idea of a party for Rebecca but D was stronger than me and he convinced me to use our small apartment to throw her a party! But we couldn't invite many people or all the people we wanted to. Well, everything went well although it was a little too crowded.
I decorated the apartment with some pink balloons, some pictures of Rebecca from her birth till now and a "happy birthday" banner or something like this, I don't know how they call it in here! (I have to pay more attention to what it's written on the label packages...). We also had two tables, one for the food and other for the sweets and cake along with some beautiful roses!! Well, about the food. We made two brazilian dishes: feijoada and chicken stroganoff. (We were having some indian guest so we opted for the chicken stroganoff not the beef one). We also made pao de queijo, we served a salad and some brazilian peanuts (ovitos).
Well, I guess we should have made our guests plates because they loved the stroganoff and didn't care much about the feijoada, which it's not very common at all when we invite people to eat only feijoada! So I guess it was a matter of not combining all the ingredients correctly since this is kinda crucial on eating feijoada! All the side dishes matter and combined they are delicious! Well, we cannot complain much about it since we had many feijoada leftovers for ourselves but I wish they had enjoyed it more! But the chicken stroganoff they really loved it! Almost everyone asked me the recipe, which I still didn't give it to them, btw... ops!
Well, about the sweets, I made one chocolate cake with walnuts filling (close to a camafeu flavor) and strawberry cupcakes with white frosting. Both were dairy free!! I discovered that some duncan hines cake mixes are dairy free so as the ready frosting we bought! So I was very happy about it since Rebecca has dairy allergy! Ok, then I also made brigadeiros, but there is no way a brigadeiro can be dairy free so Rebecca just didn't have it! I also prepared a fruits plate and bought a cool whip to eat together with the fruits but I only remember to serve it too late so I guess none of our guest ate it!
Then we opened the presents in front of everyone! Well, this is kinda traditional in here although we are not very used to it yet.... but since people were expecting it, we did it for them! Rebecca loved all the presents specially the beautiful bags and wraps! lol Classic, I know! And Rebecca had an awesome time with the people and kids around!! She was about to cry when the last guest left, poor child... I guess only mommy and daddy aren't enough for her.... "mom and dad, give a little sibling NOW!!"
Well, so that was it!! Mission accomplished!! I was kinda tense about all this party stuff.... I feel like D and I are so unprepared for this kinda of thing.... we are so all by ourselves here that I feel like we are two children that don't know exactly how things should be done.... but we made it anyway, everything turned out just fine! I can relax now!!
Now about the other things that were very exciting to us!! Well, the first one was not very exciting but I think it's kinda important to mention it. Well, Rebecca had her 12 month check up on Thursday, Sept 1st and the doctor told us she is doing fine bla bla, but... she didn't gained too much weight like the last few times. And since she is a small baby in length she was also worried about anemia (iron deficiency). So, the doctor asked for an extra appointment for the next month to check her weight and also a blood test for anemia. Besides these, since Rebecca was in Brazil for more than 3 weeks in May, she also asked for a skin TB test (tuberculosis test). So we had to come back on Saturday so they could read the results. Of course, it was negative!
Well, so the doctor made us see that we're putting Rebecca under a low fat diet... well... we realized she was correct about it! Since Rebecca is still breastfeeding but only trice a day and my breast milk was her main source of fat since she can't have cow milk instead, nor cheeses and she doesn't like to drink her soy milk in a bottle but only on her rice cereal, so she wasn't getting much fat. And the world nowadays teaches us to be very healthy but things should be different with children! Kids need fat!!! So the solution we are now trying to apply to her is to put a good amount of olive oil on her baby food after it's ready and we are putting some peanut butter on her rice cereal too! Fortunately she is enjoying both changes!
Well, now about the exciting things! Rebecca had a "word boom" this weekend!! Before, she only said "mamae" (mommy in portuguese) pretty well actually, but only this! So we wanted her to say "papai" (daddy in portuguese) pretty bad!! I remember trying to make her imitate what I just said to her, but she didn't even try!! I felt like her personality doesn't make her try when she knows she is not able to! Well, but this weekend, all of sudden, she just did it!! A perfect "papai". So she's been saying it all weekend very happily!! And also she is giving her first little steps all by herself!! And many other cool things!! Like yesterday I was reading some books for her, and I decided to test her for the first time!! And she scored high, man!!! Oh my!!! That was soooo awesome!! She showed me with her little and cute index finger the strawberries and the bananas, when I asked for it!! And also Dora and Boots!! This was sooo incredible!! And I was asking it in english!!! Also, she said "bye" and waved to the priest on Friday Mass when we asked her to!! The priest was so happy, hahaha! Aaaand, she tries to say "God bless you" when we sneeze!! I swear it!!! I noticed this a while ago but now D thinks this too!!
Well, it's been amazing to find out this new stuff Rebecca is doing!! We are overwhelmed by the fact it is all happening at once!! Also, she has two teeth already but I'm almost sure her next two teeth are about to pop out, I would say, in a week!! Which is actually a fast pace for her! And I think because of everything, now she is not so attached with my breasts!! I mean, sometimes she doesn't even want to drink my milk so I think we are now and finally ready to stop breastfeeding her!! I'm so happy I'll be able to eat milk and cheese and sweets again!! D and I've been saying it's my freedom day coming!! haha! I'm like: "Owa, I don't know what I'm going to eat first!!!".
And today is Labor Day here, so it's a holiday!! And we took Rebecca to play at a playground!! Owa, there were so many kids because of the holiday and because the weather today it's beautiful!! She enjoyed it so much!!! She even cried when we were leaving the place!!
Well, and that's it! Yes, I'm aware this post turned out HUGE, and I'm sorry, but I guess you all know me by now and you don't expect anything different, right? So sad... lol!
You all take care!!
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