*sob!*

I may soon develop a nervous tick. Not very many chances to get online, but I at least got this one to let you all know we are all doing well. Soaking up some sun, which as I mentioned before, is H-O-T. It's a jungle out there, and I'm in it. Hot damn!

Blogboy did some audioblog testing, so stop by and let us know how it sounds.

Pictures, close to 700 -no lie- and I hope to get a chance later today to post a few online.

We've enjoyed some awesome restaurants here, but my best drink to date was a 'cocotini' (coconut martini). Yes... pure bliss.

More to share soon!

Just wanted to let you all know we've all arrived safely in PR. Geez, it is hot beyond belief here. That's tropical for you. :o)

I couldn't help myself, so I shot more cloud pictures from the plane. I'll share them with you as soon as I can upload them. Some cloud formations were truly amazing.

Kids are having the time of their life. :o)

To those of you who have commented and emailed me, but I haven't been able to reply to, thank you, thank you so much for stopping by, for your emails, for caring, for sharing. :o)

Just wanted to let you all know we're ok. Bit of a stomach bug going around here, suprisingly enough of a bother to keep me away from the computer for the past few days.

Well, that and getting everything ready for our trip. Packing is a pain, particularly when you want to pack all kinds of things into your suitcase, things that don't quite fit, like say... your computer. As much as I love my laptop, my true baby is my PC. Did clean out a lot of junk I had on my laptop, to make sure I had gigs of space for all the pictures I hope to shoot.

There's also my easel, which I'll have to manage without. I've been working on a couple of paintings I wanted to finish before we leave. I hope to make some time to properly shoot them.

My previous trip to Puerto Rico was in January, to see my Grandma, who passed away shortly after I saw her. I went alone. This time we go as a family, mostly as a vacation for the kids. Needless to say that my emotions a running strong and high right now.

One thing I didn't share with you from that trip was pictures, aside that of my Grandma's flower-showered grave. I didn't really take many pictures. But there was one I shot that I'll share with you now. I found it this weekend while cleaning my laptop of unused and old files. You know how they tell you to shut off all cell phones and computers and cameras, right? Well I didn't. In all honesty, I didn't hear a word they we saying. In any case, I was awe-struck with the view, and felt compelled to pull out my camera and shoot. I took only one shot. I call it A Walk Above Clouds. Might not be a very creative title, but it is what I felt at the time I shot it -still feels that way.

There's a rule in my house my kids always follow: do not to touch my stuff. Pretty simple. The exception to this rule is of course, when I let them touch, borrow, or otherwise use my things -with my permission. (ie. Kiki uses my paints, BlogBoy uses my books...)

For years I've had Magnetic Poetry kits splattered all over my fridge. My kids are allowed to use these, of course, as long as they tell me first -so that I may tell them which are poems they are to leave untouched, all other words are game (not currently part of a work-in-progress). However, my son must have been nervous or preoccupied, because he forgot, and completely erased two poems of mine which I had not had the opportunity to write down yet. Yes, I was a little upset, because I'd been working on those for a while. So, what did I do? I told my son to fix my poems.

And he did. Here's what my son mused:

My son's heart and mind mused of beautiful things. Makes his mommy proud.