Hello Kitty

That cat! I can’t believe that cat! She (or he…I really don’t know) is out on my balcony again. I don’t hate cats, I promise. But I’m not a cat person. Which is really kind of weird as I didn’t start out that way. I was five or six years old when my sister Kristi [...]

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Countdown

I woke with an aching depression today. These will be the last 24 hours I spend with Mom and Kristi before they return to the state of Indiana. Kristi was here for a full two weeks and Mom for ten days; it’s never enough. Living 2500 miles away from them has been the hardest thing [...]

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Bi-Dee-A-Boo!

Kristi is wonderful at games of pretend. I sometimes envy her skillful creativity, how she can spin a fresh game without hesitation, generating a spark of giggles from Ernesto and encouraging his imagination.
The other day (a week ago–>LOL) I observed from the other side of the room as my sister was entertaining him with magic tricks. She took [...]

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Oh Beads!

After a two hour relay at the local mall, Mom and Kristi dropped me off at home. My son Ernesto would stay with them as they continued their shopping excursion. The baby and I would call it quits as little Amber was so congested that she would scream in frustration every half minute. At just under four [...]

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Excuse Me, Lady With a Baby!

So lastnight we decided to go out to dinner – Mom, Kristi, my dear Esteban, the kids and I. Three of us have had a birthday all within the last 5 weeks so we decided to celebrate together.
 Being a Thursday night, we were a little surprised at the crowd we encountered at the Olive Garden [...]

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Together Again

Mom arrived late lastnight, all the way from Camby, Indiana. My younger sister Kristi has been here since Saturday. Finally we are together again. I shouldn’t complain too much. This year I have spent quite a bit of time with them, more time than I have in years.
Mom left California about 8 years ago. Tired of the [...]

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Christmas Miracles – The Dominguez Family

I was so sleepy this morning as I heard my daughter begin to toss and turn in her cradle. I quickly dug around her for the pacifier and coaxed it into her mouth, hoping this would soothe her back to sleep for at least another 20 minutes. It wasn’t working so I brought her into [...]

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Preggers!

So today the news is buzzing all around Jamie Lynn Spears being pregnant. I have to say the story interests me on multiple levels. First teen pregnancy, it’s something that makes me very sad. In my school years, the majority of my friends became teen mothers and fathers. Out of all of them, only 2 [...]

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So Who am I?

  My name is Amber Lenore, aka La Chaparrita (Shorty – no explaination needed as I stand at 5″1′). Some knew me as La Sexy One ( which started as a joke because I could never get that song out of my head –> I’m too sexy for this party, too sexy and I feel [...]

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Chapter One

   I am a mom, a dancer, amatuer photographer and an author in the works –>I have boxes – and I mean BOXES – of material that I have started, brainstormed about, and some of it I even completed. My main goal right now is to reign in a direction, pick a focus in order [...]

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