Lunch with James  

Posted by Yanilza Groberg

Our trip to The Pizza Factory was very enjoyable! I really loved eating their yummy bread sticks and spaghettis with marinara sauce. James was well behaved at the restaurant, but I didn’t know that he was paying attention to how noisy it was around him, in fact at one point he said to me “Wow, adults are pretty loud mom.” Apparently the noise was distracting James from eating his food. It didn’t really occur to me that people were making too much noise.

After James mentioned that the restaurant was noisy, I started to notice it too and it was pretty noisy at the time. In addition, Right across from us and behind me there was two groups of adults seating at a table making noise( talking pretty loud). The group behind me was a group of girls and of course we girls tend to be louder than boys-most of the time! But the noise didn’t really bother me, but apparently it bothered James. Then he started pointing at all the tables that were being noisy. I told him that pointing was bad manners and he needed to stop doing that. But then I thought to myself…children are just like adults or adults are like children? Either way I look at it adults and children behave almost the same….especially when friends are around.

Smells, Cravings and Nausea  

Posted by Yanilza Groberg

Being pregnant is one the most wonderful experiences, but when morning sickness comes along the experience is not as enjoyable the first trimester and sometimes the whole nine months. My energy levels have already become low with this pregnancy. Yesterday when I attended school I felt so tired after waking around on campus for only 20 minutes to get to my classes. After I got home from school the same day I walked around on campus, I wanted clean the house but everything seemed so hard and at moment I was wishing for a magic wand, so I could just tell the magic wand… “Make the house beautiful for the rest of my pregnancy.”

Moreover the smells have been so bad that I have had to go out of the classrooms a few times because someone had a strong perfume or something else. One time the teacher saw my face and knew that I wasn’t feeling well and she said to me “Here is a garbage can in case you need it” little did she know that the student behind me was making so sick and I couldn’t hide my expression. I sneakily moved my seat closer to the front of the room. I hope that he didn’t notice.

Nausea is probably the harder pats of my pregnancy because I can’t get rid of it. I am counting the days until I have my energy back, feel like myself, stop smelling everything, feel nauseated and stop craving The Olive Garden.