Medina Memories: Where Do I Begin?

It has been such a long time since I have updated my blog. I am starting to feel so guilty. So much has happened in our family. Victor just finished running his last race at State for Cross Country. He was the only boy that qualified to go on his team. Olivia just finished her second year with the High School Soccer team. I wish we had some good pictures of her but she really didn't get a lot of playing time so it made it hard to get some pictures. She still played great and hopefully next year will be better. Emilio is busy with band. He plays the Coronet for Jazz band early before school starts several days a week and plays Percussion (drums) for Concert Band which is one of his classes at school. Alesia is doing dance classes and does a singing lesson every other week. She auditioned for a part in her school choir and got it and recently auditioned to sing the National Anthem at the University and will sing it at a Ball game this week. Diego is almost 2 and full of SO much energy! Some days I feel like I am too old to be chasing him but I love him so much and he makes my life so happy. The last few months have been full of so many changes. Carlos changed his job and is no longer working for the City but now works with the University. This was such a hard decision for us but it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. We put our home up for sale and had a solid offer on it and moved into town only to have it fall through 2 months later. We now have another offer and are hoping that it will go through soon. We moved into my Grandparents small town home and we are working hard to save up and get back on our feet. Having a sick baby proved to be financially draining and completely drained every ounce of savings we had. We had gotten to the point of having to juggle bills in order to pay for his daily equipment and oxygen. This along with me having to quit my job in order to care for him really left us with nothing. I can honestly say that we had hit rock bottom. It has been very hard but very humbling too. I sold so many of our worldly possessions in order to pay medical bills when we moved and we have really learned the meaning of living simply. Last but not least....I started school in the summer and am now almost finished with my second semester and will be starting my third one soon. It will be a very long road but I hope that I can eventually help provide some relief for our family and help get things rolling in the right direction. Overall, we are well and have had to rely on a lot of faith lately to make some of these hard decisions but sometimes that is what we have to do to make some changes in our lives.