Sooooo, I was thinking....

I was recently watching a video of Shug, circa two years of age, running around the house with a pull up, too small t-shirt and a birthday hat he got from God knows where singing " Happy Bert - day Me!" Suffice it to say, it was December and was not his birthday. But alas, this month, Shug did celebrate his 7th birthday.....My heavens, Shug is seven! Corny, but true. This post started off as a nostalgic testament to the fact that I have now had the honor and privilege of mothering one of the sweetest, smartest, most endearing children on this planet for the past seven years- but I see it evolving into something else as I write. I can hardly believe that seven years have passed so quickly. I can now say to other folks with younger children, enjoy it now- because time with the wee ones DOES pass very quickly. It seems like yesterday that I was spread eagle in the delivery room- with all my once treasured goodies on display for the world to see - refusing to scream from the shee...

Check him out ya'll- for he is pretty dope if you ask me.

Hola y bienvenido mi amigos (hello and welcome back my friends), It's been a minute I know. I recently returned from a much needed escape to Puerto Rico. It was a very relaxing trip and gave me some time to sort some things out and look at some things from a different perspective. I came away from my trip refreshed and with a couple of realizations that I would like to lay on you. Got a minute? Good. While I would never volunteer to act as an interpreter during a meeting at my job-unless forced to do so- I really do know more Spanish than I let on. My college professors were right, language immersion is the key to bridging the gap to fluency. Had I been as smart as my cousin Kecia, I too would have taken a semester to study in South America while in college. But no, I was too busy being cute in D.C. But I digress. You see after having studied Spanish for 8 consecutive years and living in an area largely populated by Spanish speakers, the problem I still have is that when I speak Sp...