She sleeps like an angel (of course the sun beam helps the effect too!)

This morning walkies required hats and blankies. Barcelona is much chillier now but mostly only at 8h30 in the morning. Avoiding the muddy park we walked down to the Marina and stopped off to get a well deserved Soya latte for moi. While walking there I sneezed as I do a million times a day and bang. My old circus school neck injury jolted into action. So I went the rest of the way very delicately trying to steer the pram and handle the dog while trying desperately not to turn my neck. Not easy... the pain killers I took when I got home didn't help much so I'm now even more anxiously awaiting Fredu's return so he can help me function!

Outside right now a band of kids are belting their hearts out in a drum group. I guess you could describe it as like a brazillian marching band. Really nice and very uplifting but no so good for sleeping babies! I think its amazing that the kids here are so constructive. They've got the day off of school today and this bunch has chosen to do something so cool with it! We should ship some of my sister's little hellians here for an exchange program. Might do them the world of good!

Speaking of sleeping angels...


how beautiful is the tiny ray of sunlight on her face beaming in from the interior patio?


She's in her play pen and just drifted off... guess it was just all too exciting...

Photos of the guests before jojo and becks

Hon and Naoko were in town for their first trip ever to Barcelona just before the girls. They snapped a ton of pics and here are a few...


Me and my 'little brother', Hon


A stoic pose from my first baby...


Cuddles with the furry one

Time flies

and soon its time for jojo and becks to jet back to London... but someone got lots of playtime in!

I guess its for a number of reasons...

but I've just not been able to write much lately. Fredu is out of town for work until the end of the week thus fullt-time baby duty is tiring me out... Jo jo and Becks are here visiting which has been fabulous. They are both so good with the bub and have helped out tons. I'm blessed to know such wonderful people.

The job search continues but we're a long way from being out of the woods. I'm looking and looking but not a single interview yet. All in due time I supposed but I think time may be starting to be the biggest enemy (that and the bills of course). I think I falsely convinced myself a few weeks ago that it would all be sorted by now... finding that this was clearly not the case is a bit hard. I'm praying for some divine direction. We stopped into Santa Maria del Mar today to ask for help with just that.

So here I sit with a sad dog mourning the absence of her dad curled up in my lap and the tiny one fast asleep in her bed punching in the words to try and push through this. Its mad really as much as I crave financial infusion I also cringe at the thought of having to say good bye to this precious time with the girls... life gets tougher... why don't they tel you this?