Sleep deprived

One the benefits of having insomnia is the ability to work on projects I would normally set on the side during the day. As I prepare for the upcoming week of championship soccer games, teaching, kids school schedule and Catelyn's catechism, I'm immediately overwhelmed with thought about which day or task takes priority. While gathering my thoughts, I get distracted by the thoughts of food and gathering. So, naturally, I decide to cook. And, boy do I cook and bake. Till 5am!! I'm so going to be dying at the championship game tonight. Might I add, I volunteered to have the rosary at our home tonight. What was I thinking? Obviously, I overbooked as usual. This seems to be my M.O. Arghh! I really need to get out of this pattern. It's causing undue stress. This may be one of the reasons I have had this cough for 2 1/2 months.

After a couple of hours of cooking, I end up with fresh mushroom marinara sauce with pasta, frijoles, Quaker oatmeal cookie muffins with Nestle chocolate chips and Heath toffee bits, Steele oats and meat stew with vegetables. Not bad! I've got all three meals ready and maybe able to sneak in a mid-day nap before the game.


Before I get the girls up for the day, I use the time for meditation and reflections from the past weekend. And, it was glorious. Thank goodness because it was also a roller coaster of emotions. The events of our economy, the bombing in Boston, kidnappings on the news, dealing with a hormonal pre-teen and trying balance our finances after completing our taxes has been an ordeal to manage. And, yet when I look at the pictures of my life, I have to say I'm quite blessed. I whine and complain about the everyday trials of life but they are minute in the scheme of life. If only I could recognize my blessings and Eucharisteo at each given moment. This is what I aim towards. I'm definitely a work in project. In the meantime, I've got my family and friends to grow with. I guess they are stuck with me. The good, the bad and ever changing personality of mine.

The galavanting personality of mine is displayed in my overbooked weekend . Just a glimpse of the great people in my life.

Springing upward

Spring brings new changes in the Lomeli household. We are transitioning to having me back in the classroom teaching University level courses, soccer tournaments State wide

and preparing for Catelyn's First Holy Communion at St. Paul the Apostle. The flowers blooming, pollen spreading around is a good reminder of how life can be so bitter sweet. I'm missing the financial rewards of working full-time but enjoy the open opportunities to complete projects, socialize with friends and organize our home. This new found opportunity has brought a chance to reflect on my goals both personal and career. And, it's still a work in progress. While I am fantasizing of an ideal situation of balancing home, work and my sanity, I know reality has a different approach of unfolding itself. I'm contemplating what I'm willing to sacrifice. The priorities I had in my early thirties are so much more evolved than my priorities coming into my forties. Ahhh, what experience and wisdom comes to light when life happens!!! All I know is...life moves forward and upward. Spring reminds me when I get those moments of despair, loneliness and exasperation.

Roman 1

1 So then, now that we have been justified by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

    2 it is through him, by faith, that we have been admitted into God's favour in which we are living, and 
      look forward exultantly to God's glory.

   3 Not only that; let us exult, too, in our hardships, understanding that hardship develops perseverance,

   4 and perseverance develops a tested character, something that gives us hope,

   5 and a hope which will not let us down, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the
   Holy Spirit which has been given to us.


The first few days early into the month of April reminds me about the importance of presence, patience and perseverance. How my actions affect the world around me whether I consciously recognize it "at the moment" when I complete my daily tasks of cooking, shopping, teaching, talking, organizing, meeting or other menial tasks of being a working Mom/Wife. I'm trying to find activities that are cost effective and still entertain my kids. The results of my research quickly showed me how abundant the blessings are when we look for them. A simple walk to the park to capture a glimpse of the kids growing and playing has definitely left an irreplaceable memory of this Spring 2013.

My babies no more but growing into young ladies.

I hope in my parenting and balancing life to impart the example of perseverance and patience to my children.

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." John Quincy Adams