Its Music Time....

Pie Jesus is a piece written by many composers but one that comes to mind is Andrew LLoyd Webber. I heard this piece one day listening to the cd of the Celtic Woman (an all female Irish women musicians with amazing voices and a violinist player) and I am a fan of their unique singing style. Pie Jesu is sang in Latin and often sang in a Soprano voice. I chose this piece because it summons all of what Jesus represents, He is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace, in which it happens to be the translations to the piece. I sang it acapella using my Spring Galaxy 4G in which does not have the best microphone but it will do for now. This piece is quite high in pitch, modify your volume. I have copied the lyrics found in lyrics translate, below for you to read it or sing along with me :)! Enjoy!




http://lyricstranslate.com/

Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu,
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu,
Qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem,
Dona eis requiem.


Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei,
Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi;
Dona eis requiem,
Dona eis requiem.
Sempiternam, sempiternam

requiem

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Matthew 26:28

For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

A day at the librabry and other fun things.....

It sure was an awesome FRIDAY..Woke up to a not so sunny Florida
weather. The sun was playing peek-a-boo. Each time the sun came out I was getting ready to go outside and play kick ball with Ethan but on a blink of an eye the sun hid behinds clouds, clouds and more clouds. I was not sure if it was going to rain or not and I wanted to go out, so I packed my diaper bag, got the kiddos and off to the library we went. Amalia did not have therapy because her awesome therapist had a doctor appointment. As we arrived to the library Ethan went straight to the children section and he was just so darn happy. The awesome thing was we had that part of the library all to our self, no kids, or librarian in the area so we explore like nobody business. I asked Ethan what he wanted to read and he answered "thinothaur." I said "dinosaurs" and he said "thinothaur." So, we looked for books with pictures of "thinothaurs." Once we found the book he went to the sitting area and was amazed at all of the pictures on the book and the best part was his face expression.

As the kids were busy with their books I looked for some book to check out and of course the book about "thinothaur" came home with us. The fun continued at home, where we had floor time and we learned our colors and more about "thinothaur" and even Amalia was very studious....

The fun continued where I prepared an awesome tomatoe bisque soup with cheese on top accompanied with a turkey sandwich...yummmss...the kiddos well Ethan had turkey sandwich with some nutella and bread stick...Amalia had her veggie pasta and some nutella..she loves loves nutella..she make an "oh"  face when she see the jar. (An "oh" face is when she shapes her lips as if she is going to pronounce the letter "O").....The fun continue for dinner we made our very first home made pizza, and may I say for newbies we did well and it tasted sooo gooood. We did a meat lover pizza. Ethan had a blast preparing it, one thing I regret is not taking lots of picture but my hand had flour so, next time I promise.                    

                                                           

                                 I love that smile!

                           Before, placing it in the oven..yummy    




We then placed the pizza in the oven and cleaned up because we had flour everywhere...took Ethan a bath and 20 minutes later it was dinner time. Where was Amalia in all of these, she was having a fun of her own.

               She had some delicious pizza sauce all over her..


                         

                                                                                                
                          "bubbles..bubbles...bubbles"


                                       


  

                        0 minutes later and Voila...it tasted so good!




     After such delicious dinner, I went to do the dishes to come back to the living room and find Ethan and Amalia sleeping like this.........

                            and Amalia sleeping like this........

 And with that I say good night to all...sweet dreams!


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Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path

Titus 2:1-8

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

                                                        
  

Music, Pray, and Shining Little Stars.

    In March is going to be a year that I enter the world of blogging but before that I contemplated weather to create a blog or not. I was thinking what would the title of my blog be. As I brainstorm here and there and with some help of my darling sister Yliana, we created Music, Pray and Shining Little Stars. Music plays a very important part in my life, growing up listening to music such as ballads, merengue, bachata, classical and instrumental, it made me realize that it made me feel good inside, it was therapeutic. It was not until I reached High School that I discover I can sing and my voice was considered a Soprano, WOW. I tried out for the musical plays West Side Story and earned the lead role of Maria, and the following year earned the lead role of Ms. Adelaide from Guys and Dolls, sang at the Christmas concert and even sang at my graduation. My vocal teacher at the time gave me a special piece, The Ave Maria by Bach Grunod. I felt in love with such piece. I have sang this piece at weddings, including my uncles and my own wedding. I sing it once in a while when friends and family asked me to. Therefore MUSIC, sets the mood, expresses ideas, and emotions in a harmonious and melody form. PRAY, I was raised Catholic and praying along with my faith in Christ was and still is a very important part of my life. Thanking God for everything He has blessed me with. I have two SHINING LITTLE STARS, Ethan Nathaniel and Amalia who are my shining little stars.  Shining Little Stars number one: Ethan Nathaniel Bermudez my three year old little man. He brings laughter and smiles to this family, he is truly a mommas boy. Shining little stars number two: the one and only princess Amalia, my 17month old baby girl. She was born with a magical chromosome. She bring so much love and unity to this family. Although having Down Syndrome she knows what she wants and when she wants it. Girl Power!!!

             I made a video of myself singing acapella the Ave Maria mentioned above. I do not have a professional recording device, I used my samsung android cell phone, so my pitch is quite high, so adjust your volume or base. I hope you enjoy it... I will be doing more of the singing videos or vlogs. Enjoy and God Bless!                                        

The cool table

    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and although we could eat our meal on the family dinning room table, we rather eat at the coolest table on the house...the kids table. The kids table there are no rules, who cares if we eat our banana nut pancake with our finger and eat bacon with our hands....its fun... and we have fun topics like, when are we going to color, when are we going to play with Thomas the train....when are we going outside to play.  While on the dinning room table we talk about bills that needs to be pay, economy, politics..etc...BORING....the kids table is the fun table......

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1 Corinthians 10:31

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Matthew 6:11

Give us this day our daily bread

Thank You Sundance

     Oh Sundance so many great and sad memories were made when I lived here. Thank you for welcoming me and my family into your community a place where I felt a sense of independence because for 32 year I lived with my parents. After I got married I lived above my parent's house in New York. They needed me I was there, I needed them they were there, so moving thousands of miles away from them and into this new life as Floridians was not easy...walking into apartment 722 I felt a rush of happiness, family helped with the movement including my dad that was the co-pilot, while my husband was driving the U-HAUL truck from Brooklyn New York.... The furniture was set up on their destine spot and I was feeling good, until my father said goodbye, he was going to stay at my aunts house in Orlando to catch his flight back to New York the next day. His goodbye was not the usual goodbye as when I lived in New York..this goodbye had a meaning to it....I was not going to see him everyday and that is when I sat on the rug of my bedroom and just cried...I cried like a child who lost his/her parents at the mall. I felt so vulnerable and so childlike, I told myself, "this too shall pass....."
                     In this kitchen, I was able to prepare delicious food, bake cake and prepare my first thanksgiving meal as a family of three. In this apartment my son learned how to crawl, took his first steps, bumped his head. 

              
                  In this living room is where we watched movies, played games, entertained guests and took naps...

In the master bedroom is where diapers where changed, good night sleeps happened, and where sick children with fever were taken care of. In the kids room, this is where guest stayed over and kids played.

The balcony, where a good cup of coffee or a wine glass went well. I did most of my praying in this balcony and sure did my many cries and asked many "why's". 

   In this apartment is where my daughter was welcomed home too. It is also the home where the hardest news was heard about Amalia's condition, where we found out through a phone call, " Yes, she tested positive for Trisomy twenty-one." This was the home that heard my many cries, heard many laughter and heard many silence. It was a place that I called "home." In this community called Sundance is where we celebrated my son's and daughter's baptism. It is the place where if we did not want to go to the beach, the community pool was the perfect place for a nice swim. Although we are moving forward in life, I say thank you Sundance for allowing the two bedroom, pet friendly apartment be called "HOME. " 

 Thank You for the great memories!

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Ecclesiastes 11:9-10

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

No love for Shamu

  Ethan has a Shamu hand puppet that I bought him when we came to Sea World in Florida when he was eight months old.

He carries that puppet everywhere he goes, even during bath time because he thinks it will perform the way he saw at Sea World or like what he has seen in the movie Free Willy. Last Thursday I took Amalia to her eye doctor and we had to wait a while because the doctor was running late. Ms. Amalia was getting cranky and I decided to take Shamu and entertain her but to my surprise she did not take it well. Amalia showed me a side I have yet not seen. She showed me fear. She was afraid of the puppet.

Once I placed the puppet in my hand and just showed her she squinted her

eyes, pouted her lips and cried. I comfort her and tried again, because I thought that it was because she was tired. NOOOO.....I just showed her Shamu and this time she yelled and pushed my hand.

 It brought a smile to my face, not because I am a mean mom or want to torture my child its because she is afraid of something. I do not remember if I read somewhere or someone told me, children with Down Syndrome do not sense fear what so ever. The Doctor came in did her check up, by the way she probably would need another eye surgery, however I could not stop thinking of her reaction. Once we finish with the doctor I drove back home and tried again with Shamu, just because I thought this is her environment, her home that she is familiar with and BINGO, she pushed my hand away from her face and screamed. She can not see the puppet from a distance, she does not love Shamu.

I hope when she gets older, she fears strangers and not stuffed animals or hand puppets.

                                    

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2 Timothy 1:7

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control

Hebrews 13:6

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”



And this too shall pass......

  Not quite sure how to write this blog...the couples of day my emotions have been like a roller coaster...one moment I am happy and can conquer the world..minutes later I am crying my eye balls out for no apparent reasons....When I feel sad or neutral..wait NEUTRAL is a feeling? Yes, for me at least. Neutral is that feeling where you are numb, don't smile, nor laugh, not angry nor sad, just NEUTRAL. I tell myself this too shall pass, because I know if I feel a certain way I can at least do something about it but neutral..yeah that is a challenge....and this too shall pass...I catch myself saying this quite often. For instance, when Ethan refuse to be potty train because his sisters wears diaper..i say...and this too shall pass....when  Ethan rather sleep on my bed and have me sleeping by the edge pillow less..I say and this too shall pass.... when Amalia has not yet sit up or even attempts too...and this too shall pass....when Amalia does not want to hold her bottle or even attempt too....and this too shall pass....when i feel overwhelm and crying seems like the only rescue at the time...and this too shall pass....when i dread going out food shopping with two little ones, in where i need to place my food items around Amalia car seats and having a three year old constantly telling me " Mommy cookie, cookie, cookie"..and this too shall pass...(sigh).....this list can go one FOREVER, but this too shall pass...ha-ha-ha....One day when all these moments do pass by, I am going to wish I had them back.

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Philippians 3:13-14

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:28

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.