New day

It's morning...the birds are chirping and the sunlight is coming into my room. After all those days of stress and wedding planning, nobody can blame me for not wanting to get up. I can see the beautiful day it is through the window shades. Is it possible that I might be catching yet another cold in the middle of the spring? My sore throat says yes... Up I go to join those who woke up before me. It is a new day :-)

Reflections from Atlanta

Sitting down facing the window of Atlanta's major airport, I look up as plane by plane take off. It never ceases to amaze me how a cylinder of steel and metal can shoot up into the air with people in it, capable of arriving safely to its destination. The world of aerodynamics is so complex and yet humans have made a business out of what was once only a dream... It makes me think that even dreams or ideas that are not feasible in the foreseeable future can one day be realized. I am inspired to Never give up dreaming!!! With God's help anything is possible :-). Have a blessed day... From Atlanta

Welcome back!

Can you believe its been almost five months since I blogged for the last time?

Needless to say it has been a very busy period of my life. Ever since leaving Miami, life has really taken off. Harry, my now fiance, got a full time job pastoring on the East Coast of Maine, he proposed on February 14th, 2013, right after we had a minor fender bender! Not the most romantic setting but it was very cute and totally made my day! The big day is coming up rather fast, on Sunday July 21st, here in Massachusetts. Its less than three months away!!!

Wedding planning, along with relocating from Miami to Massachusetts temporarily, having all my belongings still packed, studying to pass my Family Nurse Practitioner Boards and applying for a job in Maine have truly taken all of my time. I am so excited at the prospect of moving to Maine, and having our very first place together. Harry moved into one of the most beautiful, spacious, and full of light Victorian apartments with a ceiling that is “envidiable”. I already know where I will set up my craft table and have space to sew and display my souvenirs. I am even more excited about not having to move again in the near future once we get married! 

Becoming a Pastor’s wife will not come without it challenges but I am certain that God will provide a way for me to grow closer to him. I am so thankful at how this year has turned out in comparison to last year, and at all the great opportunities that seem to be coming our way. 

Below are a few pictures of my last few months, lots of hard work finally paid off when I became a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner on March 14th! God is good.

For those of you that are not familiar with my journey and the events last year, it went something like this:

Dec/11- My dear aunt who I considered a second mother, tragically passed away after a car accident while in Cuba on December 5th.

Feb/12 - Going to Hyden, KY for an intensive week of pre-clinical exams

Feb/12 - Moving to Berrien Springs, MI to complete my FNP clinicals

Mar/12 - My aunt in Spain got diagnose metastatic breast cancer. 

Mar/12- April/12 - traveled to Spain with my mother and sister to visit my aunt.

May/12- Moved back to Massachusetts as the clinical situation in Michigan did not work out. 

July/12- Moved to Miami, FL to continue my FNP clinicals

Sept/12 - Experienced the death of my second aunt who had metastatic breast cancer.

Oct/12 - Went to El Centro, CA to complete part of my FNP clinicals

Dec/12 - Graduated from Frontier Nursing University

Jan/13 - Moved back to Massachusetts

Mar/13 - Became a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. 

Needless to say, I am craving stability and cannot wait to settle down. This last year can only speak wonders of what God has done in my life, even on my darkest moments, when I thought I could not go on, he held me tight and gave me courage to keep going. I am very thankful to be done with school, and come out of it with my sanity intact. 

Currently, I am on an airplane Miami-bound, trying to make it my best friend’s graduation tomorrow. I am so proud of her!!

It is great to catch up with the blog. I will do my best to keep it updated in the next few weeks. 

I have finally made it to Visually Curious this year!. Happy 2013!!! I am like 9 days behind but I feel like I am fashionably late

What a year 2012 has been! I am very thankful for all it has taught me.

A little summary of 2012

-It was the year that I decided to take blogging seriously

-It’s got to have been the year that I traveled and moved the most:

-Massachusetts to Michigan

-Michigan to London, UK and Coruña, Spain

-Michigan to Massachusetts

-Massachusetts to Miami

-Moved in Miami 3 times!!

-Miami to El Centro, San Diego and Los Angeles, CA

-Miami to Bahamas

-Miami to Orlando a few times

-and the whole trip back to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. 

-It was the first time I got to live on my own in an apartment.

-I experienced adult responsibilities and had to make many decisions on my own.

-I also experienced the power of God working through, with and in me and my life. 

 2013 brings a new beginning and a Fresh Start. 

A little update about my life in 2013.  

• I moved from Miami and I am back in Massachusetts.
• I was graduated from Frontier Nursing University with my Family Nurse Practitioner Master’s of Science in Nursing!!
• I had a spectacular time in Florida, specially towards the end, Christmas season although stressful was very fun! we got to go to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando.
• Something unique happened that opened this year, I had never driven from South Florida to Maine in a period of 48 hours. That’s gotta be a personal record, almost the entire east U.S. coast line in 48 hours wow. Too bad I was mostly sick for that trip, I am still recovering. 
• This year is full of promises, I really would like to continue growing my blog, but for that   I need organization skills. 
• Sincerely, Kinsey was reading my mind when she published this recent post. Check it out here.

-Anyhow, I will be back with tons of pictures to share! Can you believe that 1/3 of January is gone!? What are your plans for this year? Any fun new years’ resolutions?

I have a whole three pages of it, and plan to make it into a poster that I can refer to during the year.:) see you next time!

Recap from Last week

Last week I went for the first time to Key Biscayne and I wanted to share some pictures with you. How was your thanksgiving? I actually spent the day at the Key and then headed to a friend's house with my uncle for dinner. We watched a Cantinflas movie "El Padrecito", it's an Univision tradition. Hope you like these! Enjoy!

Happy Sabbath

Have you felt tired this week? Have you felt the weight of your work, and engagements and could not wait to take one day off? Fear not! God has provided a day for you to rest. Take a look at this:

Exodus 20:8-11

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Isn't it great that God made provision for you and gave you a special time each week to rest?  Let's enjoy this special day!

Casa Panza + Flamenco

 

pictures by Daniel Prevost and Liliet Prevost

I had the chance to go eat at Casa Panza, a Spanish style restaurant that offers live flamenco music and dancers on the weekends. I had a one of a kind veggie paella that was so yummy! I cannot wait to go back again. If you are interested in finding out more look them up, they are located in Miami, FL

Checking in from study land

Currently pouring all my energy in passing my final tests and boards to graduate from Frontier Nursing University. Have traveled a lot in the last few months and hope to share some pictures in the future. In the meantime, Kinsey is sharing some pictures of her time covering a wedding in India. It makes me remember my own trip to India a few years ago. Would love to go back to visit and rediscover it through my Nikon DSLR camera lens ~!

What I've been up to

Let’s see... this last couple weeks have been packed with new sights, a few dear friend’s birthdays and plenty of activities, (including jellyfish sting).  

First up, how about some hot chocolat to cozy up and snuggle read?

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Hmm... well I got to go to The Book of Ruth, a play about a young jewish girl living in Poland during the Nazi invasion. It was heartbreaking to watch her tearful goodbyes with her mother as she was quickly shipped to Argentina to save her life.

What was so interesting was that the story was told through the foggy memories of an elderly woman with advanced dementia. 

A recurrent theme in the play was best put when the character told her son “It doesn’t matter if I am imagining things or not, what is the difference?, It is real to me” 

I also got to celebrate a few birthday parties. Happy Birthday Eli and Lisette!

Finally ended up going to La Carreta Cuban Restaurant where this latin mural caught my eye...

Lately I’ve been really interested in making DIY involving buttons.
Here is a first try at a photo journal.

taste of Home

pretty palm trees

   


the warmest beach in the planet

awesome view.

All quiet in the western front

Dear friends, amidst the 100 degree weather in Miami and full time Clinicals I've got to admit its been rather difficult to keep up with my previous leisure activities, including blogging. This is not to say that I am quitting or anything like that, just that it takes me twice as long and sometimes longer to get a post together.

Here are The highlights of my week...
- currently working on a couple decorative projects for my apartment
- Three melte icecreams later, I've finally figure out what is wrong with my freezer ( the temperature was set for too low...duh)
- about to buy a 50 lbs box of mammey, it's my favorite fruit in the whole wide world, right after mango.
- I'm really excited to go to the beach tomorrow! It's starting to feel like a tradition already!!! Pictures coming soon!
- we've had to give my cat kitty away, rest assure she is in good hands with some really good friends. I hear that she is loving being in a house with no other cats.

Thats all folks!
Be patient and hang in there!
Love you all

Ps- I got a photoshoot coming up soon

Recently, we visited a friend's house located in Tavernier, Florida Keys. We hopped in his boat and went open sea. There in the middle of nowhere there is a sand bank and a beach! It was so much fun, and we got to do Snorkeling. I thought it was the perfect time to rock my Floral Swim Cap from HeadCovers . Can't wait to visit again. My dad and uncle came along as well as most of the family and friends. 

This is another adventure we recently embarked in, I loved LOVED the everglades, hope to volunteer there at some point :). Enjoy this quick post!