Two hours later.

4:22 am
It's been two hours since the contractions started. I was able to take a 20-30 minutes nap, I think, and now I'm back to strong contractions.
I'm concentrating on seeing my baby drop down and my body opening up to receive him.

Trusting in the Lord that he will let this flow as his love flows through me.

This is the real deal.

Sunday 2:30 am.
Contractions keep coming. There is no way back now.
I'm trying to keep relax listening to some faith full messages online. I get stronger when I hear the word of God and I need to get stronger because I haven't done much metal preparation for this birth.
I'm so sleepy! yet I can't settle down and rest.

Oh Baby!

I'm still waiting for this baby, two days past his due date, which is nothing compared to my last two boys.
Tonight I have been feeling contractions come and go with no set pattern, yet more consistent than before, I lost my mucus plug last night and some more? tonight, still I will know is the real deal when the contractions actually move to my back... and I will be very surprised if this baby comes with no less than a week's delay, lol!

I can't wait to hold you in my arms my little one.

A new baby on the way!

Baby Jacob, or Jesus, or Emmanuel, or.... yeah we haven't even decided the name yet and we are already up on our due date.
Last night, or a few hours ago, I lost the mucus plug which should me that baby will be coming very soon, but because of my history with my boys I'm not holding my breath.
I still have much to do and do honestly wish for some extra time to get things done, but if is today I guess I'm manage without the perfectly organized house.

Waiting for you my little Angel.

Que no le has entregado al Senor.

Si no experimentas el poder de Dios en tu vida, examina donde NO estas cumpliendo con su volundad. El lo abarcarlo Todo y en perfecta union con El no falta NADA.

Cuando la tristeza o el dolor, el desempleo y las carencias diarias llegen a ti, a de ser el momento de examinar que es lo que no le has entregado al Senor y entregarselo a El, moverte dia con dia a una union mas profunda con el siguiendo sus ensenansa y cumpliendo con la voluntad de Dios. Solo asi podras vivir una vida al MAXIMO sin dolores ni tristesas porque podras vivir en plena confianza y union con El y al tenerlo a El nada falta, porque solo Dios vasta.

Dios te bendiga.

My new year resolution*** (Edited)

To please God with mind, body and soul.

Find 100 ways for a woman to be delight in God's presence.

1- By keeping him in my thoughts through the day.
2- Seeing him in my children.
3- Seeing him in my husband.
4- Thinking twice about my outfit before leaving the house. (So that I keep my body as his temple and not be the reason for temptation and luster to others)
5- To talk about him with my family everyday.
6- Take a momment everyday to talk with God in prayer exclusivily.
7- Help anyone God puts in our way to help.
8- Read his Holly Book.
9- Lead my family by example.
10-Be thankfull for the things he is doing that I don't know about.
11- Be patient in waiting to fruit
12- Fasting.

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.

Stronger and Closer contractions.

Boy this is moving fast. I just finished sweeping the house and picking up some mess, out of all the days in the past month, we've picked this one to not do any picking up... I had to stop every couple of minutes to let a contraction pass while picking up. There still a big mess!! and groceries? forget it, yesterday I didn't feel like doing anything, so I guess DH will have to do it very early in the morning, wouldn't want to starve our midwife.

What do women normally do while laboring?

Me? I'm picking up a load of train tracks, trucks and trains... crawling on the floor to have this time pass while allowing my baby to make it's way down the birth canal.

I'm not calling my midwife so early! will wait until we are closer to delivering.

Thank you Lord for this day!!! :).

Starting to Labor?

I think I'm starting to go into labor. Finally! after two weeks and two days I'm ready to get started and see my little guy.
I woke up about 30 minutes ago, after thinking about getting up for a few minutes, I realised my body doesn't feel as painfull as normally when I wake up... I thanked God, I thought to myself, this might mean that we are doing this today!!
Got out of bed to empty my bladder and ect... I felt a lot of pressure on my lower abdomen and inside vagina, walked in an almost squating position because it was so uncomfortable... at this point I felt some discharge, a pinkish liquid.
I empty my bladder and got up to do some squating exercises, walked to dh and let him know... now with a new change of undies, I should get back to sleep to make sure I'm rested for active labor.

Nothing beats cleaning up dog's poop after midnight. Right?

Ewwwwwww! As I'm at my desk preparing some packages to ship out, I feel this horrible smell, I thought, do I stink? lol! then I go check my boy in the room to see if he just poop on the bunk or farted, lol! nope! nothing...
I thought to myself, did our sick dog just passed in the living room and it stinks horrible... (hey I know nothing about these things) well I get up to check on her and the first thing I find is a shower of poop all over the floor, the poor girl has a horrible diarrea, I guess, the house stonked horribly!
Being in my nesting days, I gave it some thought and with much calm, I decided since I will need a new mop after this, I should first mop the whole house, atleast where no one is a sleep, so I went on to pick up toys, sweap and mop the house and then clean the pooped area.
As if that wasn't fun, I then decided this was a good time to luster the fridge and other kitchen appliances, lol! then on to organizing our messy counter top where dh keeps a bunch of papers, keys, cell phones etc.

Then I thought, is there anything more fun than this lol! I mean when I woke up in the morning the house will be sparkely clean and I won't have a huge mess of dry up poop to clean up while keeping the kids away from the area.

Receta de masilla o play-duh

This is a video in spanish, I made this for my cousing and wanted to leave it here, if you are hispanic then you will understand it :)

Este es un video que grabamos en espanol, como hacer masilla o masisa en casa con ingredientes caseros.

Things I won't need for this baby.

After having my daughter and first child, I realised how many unnecessary things we buy for our babies. I got so many gifts and bought so much that was never used or used only a few times, the second time I knew better and bought only what I thought it was essential, but now I realise that even then, there were things I could have done without.

Practicing attachement and natural parenting is not just good for bonding with your baby/child, it saves you tons of money too.

These are some things I won't need for my new baby:

This will the biggest saver for use, cloth diapering is so much better for babies, it's healthier for their bodies and skin and it's eco-friendly too!

Wipes 15.99 per package, you will need tons of these. Me, I don't, I'm using eco friendly cloth wipes, they don't irritate the baby's skin, and are eco-friendly too.

Diapers, oh boy! I leave a link to a comparison table between cloth diapering and disposable diapers.

Our saving will be approximately $2000, probably more, since I already have over a dozen from my last child and I will be making the other myself.

The cost of diapers are more then the retail price.

In our stagnant economy, it makes sense to use cloth diapers. The initial investment may be a deterrent for some families but when you take a look at the overall savings, cloth diapers are highly cost effective.

* Disposable diapers average $1167/year, $3500/ three years

* A diaper service averages $800/year.

* Purchasing and laundering 20 cloth diapers (3 washes per week) averages $634/one year, $1102/three years

Baby Bath tub.

Saving of $17.99

I don't quite remember how we did it, I just know that I had one of these and used it a couple of times with my daughter, never with my son, I think we used the vanity sink with a towel on the bottom for cushioning.

Shopping cart cover

Saving of $29.99

I had one of these with my daughter, but we like it much better in the Mei Tai, up on my back or front, communicating all the time, exploring everything from my view.

On the go bottle warmer

Saving of $12.99

Because I breastfeed, I don't need this extra thing to carry around, my baby's milk is always at the right temperature, I don't have to worry about warming it up or if it's too hot it will burn my baby.

Bottle cleaning system, warmer gift set.

Saving of $99.99

I can't believe I had one of these with my daughter, and gazillion plastic bottles we didn't get to use.

When you breastfeed, there is no need for this mess around the house, I can't believe some people think this is easier, I never had to wash bottles! that was easy for me.

BPA free bottles

Saving of $18.99 or $113.94 when you buy a dozen.

BPA free bottles, we want whats best for our new baby and these sound like they are fantastic, I mean they are BPA free. But! breastfeeding is so much better, imagine all the chemicals in these plastic bottles that one will keep a baby from getting exposed to, just by breastfeeding.

When you put together the years your child will drink formula and compare it to simply breastfeeding, oh the saving is great, and the planet is much happier too.


BPA free Pacifier

Saving of $4.99

Breastfed babies don't usually need pacifiers (neither of my kids needed one) because they get the amount of sucking necessary to keep them happy from breastfeeding, formula fed babies do usually need pacifiers, because when feeding they don't have to do much sucking and therefore their sucking reflex isn't satisfied.

Pacifier holder/cover

Saving of $4.99

This are great for babies that do use a pacifier, they hold the pacifier onto the baby's clothes and it also has a cover for when not in use.

Stroller and car seat system.

Saving of $249.99

With my daughter I was convinced I needed this as a set, yes taking the baby out in the car seat right to the stroller seems so easy and so convenient!

For me this was a pain! I got to use this as a set once, went into the mall and realised how much I hated the bulky stroller and having my baby so far away from me, and don't even get me started about just using the car seat as an infant carrier, boy is that uncomfortable!

With my daughter I liked much more my snuggly, but that didn't last long before it was too little for her, this time I'll be using our AngelPack Soft Baby carrier.

I'm not saying I don't need a car seat, I do, but not this type of set up, my car seat will be a 5 point hardness car seat that will take my baby to toddler and childhood, yes, I'm using a "Sunshine radiant 80" they can be used with a newborn baby and up to 80 pounds, the cost is about as much as this set, but unlike this car seat, I won't need to buy another one for years!

Play mat.

Saving of $59.99
A play mat, very colorful and oh so much fun? my daughter never cared for it, instead she would try to crawl away to explore the house, the funny thing is, my son didn't have one of these, and he started crawling and walking sooner than my daughter, so the exercise she got on here it wasn't that great to help her crawl. As for my son, he was always too interested in exploring everything around the house, crawling up and down the sofas, so I think he did just fine without it.

Crib and Changing Station.

Saving of $249.99

What a deal! you get the two things in one, right?, with my first I used our changing table a hand full of times, with my second, I didn't need one.

As for the crib I won't need a crib, to us this was a big useless thing, my kids were always in our bed and the crib was just a waste of money.

Crib bedding set.

Saving of $179.99

Since I don't need a crib, I don't need crib bedding either.

A play pen.

Saving of $169.99

Play pen or play yard. With my daughter we had one and didn't use it much, with son, I thought we might get more use of it to keep him safe from the toddler in the house, however, he hated this things, and it was just taking up space, I got rid of it by the time he was about 6 months, and we got to use it to store clothes and toys, but not really for the baby, this was unnecessary.

Baby Bouncer.

Saving of $35.99

We used a bouncer with our daughter, after all it was a beautiful gift, we our second child we didn't even remember this thing existed and we didn't need one.

I think having a baby sling to put the baby on your front or back it's a lot better than this.

Ahhhhh I love speaking to myself lol!

This pictures was taken at 4 1/2 months.

I'm so not keeping up with this blogging thing, and I know no one is listening! lol!
but just in case I'll post here in my blog, our news. We Are Expecting a new Baby!!

Last December I found out about our little one, it's been a long seven plus months, but we are almost there!

According to the sonogram (my husband ruined my surprise)the baby is a boy, that will be FUN!
I didn't' want to know the sex until the birth, but the kids and hubby, especially hubby wanted to know, so I let them know. Angie was very sad because she was expecting to have a sister, Gabriel was super happy because he want a BOY! now we are all just happy to have a bigger family, and are looking for names, Daniel is the one that has made it to the list, nothing else has been accepted by everyone.

I hope to have new pictures of me with the baby in an AngelPack up on our website soon :).

Kimono tutorial.

Tutorial:Draft a Kimono Patten by `taeliac on deviantART

"Setting Up AngelPack Production" the dominican way.

I can't believe what I wrote here last year. LMBO!
Setting this business up was the most time consuming and straining thing I've ever done. Last year was an interesting and I guess testing time. I went down to Dominican Republic with my two kids. Everything that could have gone wrong, did.

We went to D.R. at the end of June. To start my husband's passport didn't make it in time and so I took the trip with the kids by myself. We got home and it was all beautiful and fun, magical! right.
We get to "our home" this is my husband's place, his grandmother's place "our home" first it was too inconvenient and too dangerous for little Gabriel, too many tempting electric cables and such. I didn't want to dry the great-grandma crazier! we had plan all of this around the fact that she needed some one to stay with her, helping her get better, but we couldn't stay there because we would be too much trouble.
So I ended up at my mom's house (my aunt and adopted mom) we had quite an interested sleeping arrangement, but the kids seemed to be happier there and we felt more welcomed. So we stayed here.
In all this, our fabrics and materials are stocked in customs and we ended up paying extra for the time THEY held the materials because the inspector was "sick" Goodness this took about a month!!!
Then the sewing machines, weren't ready when we expected them to be ready, so another two weeks.
After this two weeks the fun begun, my so promised "seamstresses" couldn't sew a straight line! to save my day!
So here I am two months later and no job has been done. I started to do all the cutting work and sew as much as I could, which really wasn't much due to the big fact that in the Dominican Republic the electricity is almost always gone, so basically there is a black out every single day for most of the day. Hurray!
I searched high and low for a good seamstress, I went to the city, I tried teaching some home sewers, but I had no luck!
Finally one of my machines broke down "Again" and the guy who sold them to us came to fix them to our location, and I explained the situation to which he showed interest in the job. It was a big relief, he said he would be back on Monday to see how it's done. This guy used to own a factory in New York and moved it down to Dominican Republic before things went sour and had to close it down.
I was happy! I was relieved! until I hear from my friend the news, there was a family accident and he was involved in it. Oh no! it was tragic.
While this happened I tried finding some one else again, not knowing that he would be back in a week. No luck!
Finally! he came and explained what had happened, he looked at a finished AngelPack, told me exactly how I had sewn the outside of it just by the looks of it. Made an appointment for me to go to his house and show him how to make one from start to finish.
We did that! within an hour he was done with the First AngelPack LX, fallowing my instructions. It was beautiful!! I have never sewn that well.

I have to say, I'm very thankful for finding him. I actually knew his family our grandparents are related. I had also been a sitter for kids in their family and I even babysat two of his daughter when they were babies, his wife was always so nice, even when I got her lost in the City, lol!
Anyways, finally our carriers are being made in our home town, NOT China, by people we know and have known for ever.

This is the short version of what happened, but it absolutely did not go smooth or easy for me, for the kids, some days were scary for them, others were sad, others full of junk food that I don't even dare to bring into my house, but that was something that made them happy and not cry because they missed their home, their food, their DAD!

Through all this something that helped out a lot, was breastfeeding, breastfeeding seemed to calm them down at night and nap time. No matter where we were we had this breastfeeding section for the two of them on my arms and it was a blessing. It kept us close and less stress.

Now there was that! I still don't feel like going into too many details, but this is much more than I have ever talked about the trip to "Setting Up AngelPack Production" the dominican way.