Happy New Year....

So this year I decided no to make any new years resolutions.. I mean I do every year and I never keep them.. I beat myself up about it and why??  not worth it.. so this year really the only new years resolutions I made were to be kinder to myself about what I do/don't do, weight I do/do not lose, etc..

the other thing I wanted to work on (forget calling them resolutions) is that I needed to hold less resentment/anger/dislike in.  This one for me does not come easy..

so since Jan. 1st. let me tell you I have not done a good job of this hold resentment/anger/dislike thing, but hey I am being kinder to myself so I let it all go..

but then yesterday I was talking with another expat that is moving back to the US and I listened to the negative feelings she had about Argentina and her time here and I went home feeling quite sad.  I really hoped that I hadn't been negative in speaking of any of our previous locations..

and then I remembered NEW MEXICO!!  we lived in NM for 9 LONG months.. it was by far the worst 9 months of my LIFE.. it was at a very hard time in my life.. Nola was 16 months when we moved and I was 7 months pregnant.  It was middle of summer and Scott and I had been apart for a while and selling a house, renting, his job (which was in a different time zone) and just the location of where we were was HORRIBLE!!.. and I have probably never said a kind or nice word about the place EVER!!

so let me tell you the things I loved about New Mexico

1.  the local library.. it was small and lovely and books were always for sale.  I bought a book for Nola there.. "amy loves the rain" and it was Nola's favorite and I read it all of the time.. it is in storage.. I couldn't part with it. 

2.  breakfast tacos!!  It was the first place ever that I had actually had a breakfast tacos.. egg, potato, chirizo.. how the heck were these things NOT in my belly before I turned 30.. amazing..

3.  The isolation.. now it was hard to be so isolated, but when you get right down to it, it is quite lovely to not have homes on top of one another and to be able to drive for a hour or so with not a house in sight.. just rambling tumble weeds and a random tree or so.. One time I saw a tarantula the size of my tire..

4.  The hospital.. small and lovely... and where I had Cora.. I had the nicest nurse Anne who stayed with me during my delivery of Cora even though she was off duty.. she just couldn't let me be alone in the operating room.. and I am so very thankful for her.. I hope I told her enough how much I valued her.

5.  K-Mart.. when you live in a town where the next biggest town is about 1.5 hours away.. with no real towns in between, the K-Mart is pretty nice.. as the Walmart just gets old after a while..

and there you have it.. those were the good parts I will from now on talk about when people mention New Mexico.. :)

today I was frustrated by having to go to the bank to pay a bill with 75 people in front of me, standing in the rain because the line was so long it went outside.  I thought nothing but negative thoughts.. but nope.. the rain is lovely.. as it brings the most beautiful days to Buenos Aires.. and the flowers are so vibrant. This is me dropping the resentment.. negative.. :)

well I really have no pictures this post.. we are enjoying our break from school, being local tourist and look forward to our journey to Peru next week.. so next post.. pictures for sure..

Happy 2015...