Sandra's Sunday Corner

And my Sunday choices for today are:

Music:"This Christmas"--By Christina Aguilera

Book:"Christmas Carol"--by Charles Dickens



Perfume:"Nina"-- by Nina Ricci

Crappy Feeling....

I'm not feeling very good today...
In fact, I wasn't feeling that good yesterday either...
Me and hubby have been Christmas shopping for the past 3 days and that has been quite stressful to me...To him too I suppose...But he's not in his "PMS" week...or is unemployed for the past 3 years...
This Christmas we have a very low budget to spend on Christmas gifts and that makes me feel really bad...Mostly because we can not buy some of the stuff the kids would like to have...Then there is my brother...I still haven't figured out what to buy him...He's 13 and all the stuff he likes is way too expensive to what I can afford....Then there are mom and MIL...Both of them quite picky with their taste...I once bought something to my mom and what she said was «what am I supposed to do with is?»....My MIL only likes expensive perfumes but we're thinking in offering her one in her birthday next February, so now I give her what?....
And we have 5 nieces and nephews still to buy a treat...Yeah, a treat....Cause we can't buy anything else but it....
Ohh!...Did I mention that I'm so broke that I don't even have the money to buy hubby a present?!...He said me not to worry cause I have the rest of the year to do so...And his Birthday is next month....
I feel down....
I feel like crying...
I feel useless...
Overall, I feel a piece of S**t!...

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Through My Eyes Friday

As some of you may know, last Monday we took Wilson to his cardiology app in Lisbon.When we got to Lisbon the sun was setting so I took some cool shots.
So....

This is what you see when you look through my eyes!










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Done with the Annoying Phone Calls

Don't you ever get fed up with all the annoying phone calls that you keep getting in the most unappropriated times?
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Thursday Thirteen--21st Edition

Thirteen Things about My Week Last Monday we took Wilson to the pediatric-cardiologist.She did same exams on him and told us not to worry cause everything is ok.She's 95% sure that those pains in his chest are due to respiratory problems (he has large adenoids).Still she scheduled another exam to January just to be 100% sure of it. The day we went to Lisbon to Wilson's app it was freezing!Still I managed to take some gorgeous pics that I'll post on my Friday Memes This week I got really worried about Wilson because some kids in his school saw a man taking pictures of them during recess time.Some of the little girls were just terrified.Like always, most of the grown up did not believe the kids and said they were making it up...I DO believe in children!So Wilson is being escorted by me, dad or big bro always! Filipe won a computer game Tournament in his School(you can check his winning pics over "Cidade Jovem") Hubby gave me my Xmas present, an Expresso coffee machine We got our wireless system!Now it's non stop blogging the whole time! I'm in my PMS week... I got xmas cards from my BBF's Tammy,Toni and Tina Lapadula My mom is going to Serra da Estrela, way up North in Portugal.She's going to see snow for the very first time I'm still thinking what to give to my kids for Christmas Eric fall asleep while having dinner 2 days ago.It was hilarious to see him fighting it...Chewing with his eyes closed!LOL! Finally I'm NOT breastfeeding Eric any more!!!Woo Hoo! A friend of mine told me a secret that made me sooooooooooo happy that I screamed when she told me ************!You wanna know what it is ???You will know!Some day!LOL!


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Wilson's Christmas Party at School

Today was kids last school day.Now it's Xmas Break!They only go back on January 5th...
So once it was they last day, they had a small party at school (party in school here is equal to kids singing and dancing.That' s about it...)
Filipe also had a party at Junior High, but it was at the exact same hour then Wilson's.
Last year I didn't managed to watch Wilson's Xmas party cause the parents were not aloud to watch due to the lack of space...(Yeah, you read it right.Not aloud!)So this year I decided to watch Wilson's...Poor Filipe didn't have any family member watching his...Thanks God he is mature enough to understand the reason why...
So, here are 3 videos of the kids performance...

This first one is Wilson's class performing a song/dance.He's the one in the end of the front row with a dark brown jacket and a blue scarf.(I'm sorry about the heads in front but it was crowded and I couldn't get up to make the video.And I had Eric sit on my lap! :P)




This second one is Wilson's music and English class.You can see his music teacher playing guitar.





Finally the third one!
This is nothing to do with Wilson!LOL!
You see, where we live there are 3 predominant cultures (Portuguese,African and Gypsy).
I bet you girls have that romantic idea of gypsy ladies with colorful long skirts reading hands...
That's far from the truth!....
They have a very strong culture that has some beautiful things like girls and their pride about their long hairs, like the jewelery they wear (they love gold) and their dancing.
The teachers try to emphasize the best in every culture.
In this video you can see 2 gorgeous gypsy girls and some gypsy boys dancing.Of course, that in every class there are kids from the 3 cultures but this 3rd grade (year) teacher decided to do something different than Christmas Carols.

Build-A-Bear Workshop Gift Card Giveaway

Thou it's her birthday today (Happy Birthday My Dear Friend!!!!) my lovely BBF Tina Lapadula@"Life in the Lapadula House" is willing to give you a present instead of getting one!
Yeah!You heard me!
She's doing a marvelous giveaway with the "Build-A-Bear Workshop's" team.
This is one of their gorgeous pieces:

You have there a variety of plushies at very low prices.
If you wanna win this gift card she's giving away, just hop over Tina's L. blog and follow the rules for participating.

And once again.....

WORDLESS WEDNESSAY--15th Edition

BBF's 3--Family 0
Ok.Once again I'm skipping the "wordless" part of it...
This is just me making a point about my feelings towards this country/culture/people...
We're 1 week away from Christmas...It looks like I have no family or Portuguese friends...
Thankfully, I've made new ones!Or else that shelve would be empty!

Santa Came Earlier ....

I suppose that Santa must be really fed up with my begging the whole time, so he decided to give me a present today!
Nah!!!
What happens is that my hubby went Xmas shopping and wanted me to open up my present today!
He said that there's no use in delaying it!
What a sweetie he is!
So, my dear caffeine addicted friends,just check out what Santa brought me!

Do you like my cappuccino???