Thanksgiving message from Our Lady.

Message of November 25, 2009

On the 25th of every month, Our Lady gives the Medjugorje visionary Marija a message for the world.

This is today's message:

"Dear children! In this time of grace I call you all to renew prayer in your families. Prepare yourselves with joy for the coming of Jesus. Little children, may your hearts be pure and pleasing, so that love and warmth may flow through you into every heart that is far from His love. Little children, be my extended hands, hands of love for all those who have become lost, who have no more faith and hope. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Let's Lend a helping Hand!
Charito's Fund * Helping the ones in Need

Hello friends!

Today I want to post about a friend. A mother, a friend a servant of God, a widow.

Her name is Charito. Charito was left as a widow with two kids named Devin and Marneri, and no home in March of 2005. The only thing her husband was able to leave her was a little piece of land. She lives in the Dominican Republic where I grew up. The family has been staying in a house that was loaned to them for a definite amount of time. This time has passed and they haven't been able to finish their little home yet.
Charito has been told that she has to leave the borrowed house by January.

Since my earliest memories I can remember Charito. She is a great friend to many. I remember when I was very little she would work with her mother washing clothes. They both worked very hard to pay for the food for their big family of 7 girls (one of them adopted by the family) and a boy.
Charito has been a hard worker all her life. Later on when her mom was too sick and there was no work for her dad in the small town, she took on all the work all by herself to keep feeding her family. As they grew bigger and some of the sisters left the house Charito was able to work to put her younger sister through medical school (which really doesnt pay much in our country). Every day she continues to work hard to keep her two kids healthy and fed.

Devin & Marneri are the greatest kids. They both understand when mom can't afford to buy ice cream from the guy selling on the streets, much less new toys. They are very close and take care of each other and love sharing. Devin is quite the big brother, he can take an hour trip holding half of that bag of cheetos to take it home to his sister.

Below are some pictures of the project I want to ask for your help for. It is a construction project. As you can see by the pictures it is a very modest home. It is small, two rooms, one bathroom a kitchen and living-dining room combination. She was about to just build a little shack but many friends in the community offered to volunteer their time to help build her house. Someone gave her a gift of 1000 blocks, but the rest has been hard earned by this widow mom and borrowed to be paid back with interest.

She is in desperate need of the remaining materials to complete her project before she loses her temporary housing. I can think of no other person more deserving of a helping hand. She has spent her life pouring herself out for other people. Please help me bless her by sending a donation. Every penny will go straight into the cost of the materials required to complete this project.

Follow the link bellow and enter the ammount you want to donate, we will send the donations to Charito and her family.

Let's Lend a helping Hand!

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and
a judge for the widows, Is God
in His holy habitation.


If you have come to this page, please read through this entry. Please!


Charito's Fund * Helping the ones in Need


Today I want to post about a friend, a mother, a server of God, a widow.
Her name is Charito, she is a mother of two children, a boy and a girl, Devin and Marneri. Charito's husband passed away in the year 2005, he left her and her two children without a house to make their home, the only thing they had was a piece of land in the remote little town they live in.


Because they don't own a home and can't afford to rent one, they have been leaving at a house that they have been maintaining for the owners who live outside the country. However this year Charito has been told that her family has to leave the house as soon as possible. This is a big boarder on this mother who works every day to make enough to get by with food and clothes.
Some people in the community are trying to help her build their little home.

The kids have been helping too. Devin got a little sick because he insisted in helping with the hard work of carrying dirt out of the lot, Marneri helped mom bring cold water to the workers.

Even though there have been volunteers and donors helping out there is still a lot to do to see the house finish and they have run out of funds, they had a person donate some blocks and some of the workers are working for free too.



The house is very modest, small, two rooms, one bathroom a kitchen and living-dining room combination, she was about to just build a little shack but many friends in the community offer to help and lend a helping hand.




Know Charito:


Ever since I have memory I can remember her, she is a great friend to many. A hard worker from her childhood, I remember her washing clothes since very little with her mom, both working hard to pay for the food for their big family 7 girls (one of them adopted) and a boy.

Charito has been a hard worker all her life, later on when her mom was too sick and there was no work for her dad in the small town, she took on the work all by herself all to keep feeding her brother and sisters. She has always done this and always has a watchfully eye for those in need with the little she can help.
Day by day she works hard to keep her two kids healthy and fed. You can find her visiting the sick or those in pain for the lost of a love one, you can find her in church with her two kids by her side.

Her kids:

Devin & Marneri.

These are the greatest kids, they both understand when mom can't afford to buy ice cream from the guy selling on the streets. They are very close and take care of each other and love sharing. Devin is quite the big brother, he can take an hour trip holding half of that bag of Cheetos to take it home to his sister.

Devin suffers from asthmas his father did. Marneri is just a sweet yet strong girl. They both go to the local public school and are on the top of the class.

If you have gotten to this point please, if you have any way to help make sure you do, God will recompense you tremendously.

I'm an honest Catholic Christian, I trust in God with all my heart that he will use you as the help to this family to supply their needs.

You can email me, if you need to talk to make sure this is not a lie we can talk, if you have any thing $10, $5 or what ever God puts in your heart please click the paypal button and make a donation.

If you can't donate anything please send the link to your friends, post it your blog, I would love to be able to make this happen for them for this Christmas gift... Won't you help me?!

I will be making some goods to sell and gather funds for this cause too, please keep a check on my etsy shop

Follow the link bellow and enter the ammount you want to donate, I will send the donations to Charito and her family.

Happy NOT Halloween Day celebration.

I have never been interested in Halloween. Growing up in the Dominican Republic this was not a tradition we had, instead we had the mass celebration on the day after halloween "Dia de los muertos" or "Dia de los Santos" <== My mother was born this day!


This year after hearing so many reasons to N.ot celebrate Halloween, I exposed my find to my daughter, I also told her that she could celebrate if she wanted to, but I was not going to dress up and participate. She wasn't convinced at first, but then we did some research on the net about the origins of Halloween and she was convinced she didn't want to do it anymore. <== or at least for now.
So we had a family dinner and a yummy cake after.

We made rules like every one needed to help someone, every one needed to say grace individually and Angie came up with a funny song about it.

What I liked the most is being able to share this information and letting her think it over and decide.
I love being honest about the truth... we did the Santa talk too. I never wanted to even mention it in our family, but my husband thought it was something very important. This year she had been asking and asking "Is Santa Real?" I could not say yes or no, because I don't want to brake her heart or lie, I gave my husband the task of talking it over with her, since he was the one to introduce the Santa man to her little life, my husband kept putting it off and not giving me a straight answer of weather I should answer to her question or not...
Well On night she asked me about it and I just couldn't put it off anymore, we had a big talk about it, she was sad! very sad! She felt terrible that we had lied to her, she felt bad that her older friends knew about this and she didn't and she acted like a full affirming them they were wrong.

I felt horrible for letting us get to this point. It's very important to me too honest with my children and teach them to do the same. I do feel relief that at least now we all know the truth. This year they know that the gifts are coming from mommy and daddy! And that's a big deal to me.

Daniel's Birth.

<=== Just born. Little Daniel was born at H.ome on August the 16th (14 days late!) he was 10.04 pounds. Born in me and my dear husband's lap.

It's been almost three months since my last post and the birth of Daniel, I have almost forgotten the intense feelings of that night, I can remember them but from a painless place lol!

I remember that Saturday August 15th, I had just one more day to have him, he was already 2 weeks and 2 days late!!! and on Monday I would have to go see the dr. at the hospital, I wasn't happy about that because I wanted my home birth for so long. It took me some time, energy and watching "the business of being born" to make my husband agree to the home birth. I'm so glad!

***I always knew I didn't want another hospital birth. With my first I went in with all my hopes of a natural non invasive birth and that did not happen, everything started with one simple drug to lower my "high blood pressure" and ended in epidural. With my second we had a home center birth, all though I wanted to have a home birth my husband didn't feel safe with it and so we did a birthing center, while it topped the experience at the hospital by L.ike a M.illion I wasn't able to relax and O.wen the birth like I did at home.***

Our home birth: It was an empowering and wonderful experience, I feel stronger after this baby :).
At around 1:00 am I got up to go P.otty and I felt a discharge (something pinkish) right then I knew this was the time. I didn't go back to bed (wish I did lol) instead I decided to pick up the house a bit, I organize around the house and swept the floors (we have to do this a few times a day) and organized the kitchen.
When I was done picking up I came to my room to hear some nice christian music, my computer won't let me hear radiopaz anymore (boohoo) so I went to another spanish radio station (I think radio clamor) ahhhhh it was beautiful I sat on the floor stretching my legs and while I sat on my Buddha position I prayed and praised the lord for a while, a couple of hours I would think.

By 4:00 am (guestimate time) I started to get reall strong contraction so I woke my husband up to make me company. He got up and set everything up for the home birth while helping me go through the contractions. I L.O.V.E this man!

Another hour passed and around 5:00 am I asked him to call the Mary Ann, our midwife. By this time this was getting very intense. My husband wanted to go get some groceries at Wal-Mart (non organic!) but you know at that point I didn't care to not be prepare with snacks. We had some healthy bars and gatorade juice so that's what we put on the table for snacks.

I did some stretches on my birth ball and on the floor and walk around and on and on lol! Then I just naturally felt like hiding in our room. My husband had set up his massage table to keep massaging my back in the living room and I was totally opposed to staying there, he insisted and I hided in our room lol!
I was so in tune with my body! I found a comfortable place to pass the contractions in front of our dresser where I could bend my back easy, this worked for some time.

At 6:00 am our midwife got here and by this time I was so R.E.A.D.Y for this baby! My contractions were so strong! I lost everything I was wearing! And I didn't care! Mary Ann was wonderful she moved everything and got our room ready for birthing all around taking care of my needs (which I didn't know I had lol) keeping my hydrated and comfortable, turning down the lights etc.

Now an hour or two of these intense laboring pain Oh that can be a big thing, by 7:00am I just couldn't take it anymore, there was no place, no position I could change to that could make this pain disappear, NOTHING was working anymore! I remember I exclaimed "Nothing Works Anymore" to which my midwife calmly replied "You know, that means we are almost there" this was all I needed to hear at that moment! I was ready to take it to the next step. She sent me to the toilet to empty my blather, which BTW I had been doing all morning long but I seem to have forgotten how important this was to relieve the pain... well my body just shot that! I couldn't empty my blather until around noon time that day!

I'll tell you that with all this pain, I totally had forgotten my moments of prayer and praise at the early stage of labor... and while I was feeling terribly uncomfortable seating at the toile I just remember My L.ord, I repeated Jesus names a few times and remember how he D.oes answers my prayers, then I asked him to let the birth happen N.O.W and I didn't demand it lol!

At this time I felt the urge to go into the shower and with him giving me the strength I went to the shower, which did make my pains bearable. While in the shower I felt the need to push and I pushed a little, but then my body got tired of the shower so I got out to go to bed and get a comfortable position. By the time I took those 8-10steps to bed I was already getting another S.trong contraction I got on bed on my hands and knees and just then my water broke! ( I had N.E.V.E.R experience this before) It was a happy moment for me, I was admired that I got to see how that happens this time and I already know that after this The Baby was C.oming!

After my water broke at 8:00 am I had to get up, so I did I was going to do my dresser dance again (lol) but that wasn't doing it for me, to all this my husband has been walking around behind me to massage my back and relieve some pressure... and right then between our dresser and our bed, I asked him to seat on the bed so I could lean on him and he could massage my back, he did... it felt good and the contractions were Strong, I felt the need to seat on his lap facing him and I did, while I was on his lap (his legs open) I felt a H.uge urge to push. I gave it all my might! I pushed a long strong push and Daniel's head was out. Mary Ann let us know that the baby's head was out! With the next push he was almost all out and by the third he was Born! our beautiful Daniel was born between both of us, I got up and grabbed the baby, and then I went to bed and laid down with my boy on me while they tended to me.

I tried to breastfeed Daniel before the cord was cut, but apparently he was too full! He poop tons right at birth and much more trough the day. Daddy cut the cord after the placenta was out and got to examine the placenta after. During all this time after the baby was born a wonderful thing that doesn't happen at hospitals was going on on our bed, we were all sharing the bed for the first time, my kids came to see the new baby and my husband was right by my side too.


A funny thing: Our three years old Gabriel recorder a couple of swift videos of Daniel while being born. (My 5 years old daughter hided in the other room)


If I had to do it all again, I wouldn't change a thing. I feel blessed to have experience birth to the fullest and I'm glad to have had my wonderful husband helping me through it. I'm most grateful that God was with me the whole time and when I accepted that fact the baby was born.

Crazy fact: I was fantasizing ('cause that's what pregnant women do) about having a birth during a rainy day, early in the day. This was the exact thing that happened that day and you know what? I couldn't care less for a day birth, or a night birth or rainy or sunny, in the end that was so N.oT important.