Dominican Housewife Chronicles - Status Quo

Hello all it's been a few weeks since I posted so I thought I should update you all on what's been happening around here.  As the title says it's pretty much been status quo.  I started this blog to chronicle my experiences as I navigated through learning how to be a Dominican Housewife.  I shared with you the challenges of cooking, cleaning and just general cultural differences.  Some of these experiences were funny and others were very educational.  I've gotten into a rhythm and for the most part things run smoothly.  My days usually start with a nice walk along the waterfront which is called the malecon.   This picture is one I took a few days ago during my walk.


I realized in my last post I didn't really give an update about my husbands vacation.  He was off work for three weeks and I was concerned about how him being here everyday for three weeks would affect my routine.  Ha, well there was no routine for three weeks ya'll. We also had house guests for  two of the weeks he was off.  Things went well for the most part.  There were a few challenges along the way but my husband and I always seem to find a way to resolve them without too much fuss.  Let's see one of the challenges was that no matter where we were going his daughter would be in the bathroom getting ready for at least an hour although my husband said it was two hours LOL.  I should mentioned that one of our house guests only spoke German.  So communication was a real challenge around here, even more so than usual LOL.  My husband only speaks Spanish, I primarily speak English and a little Spanish.  German wasn't being spoken much at all.  The only person who could communicate with everyone was his daughter who is a lovely young lady but she's also a pre teen and they can be moody.Th

ere was the cockroach incident.  This one was very traumatic for me.  One night I walked into the bedroom to find a very large cockroach crawling out of my CPAP machine mask.  Yes I died for about 30 seconds and then had a complete meltdown for another 20 minutes before my husband returned to the house.  By the time he got here the roach had been properly killed and fortunately I had another mask and tube here with me for my machine so my husband switched it out for me after disposing of the roach. My mask and tube are now kept in a plastic airtight container when not in use.  Ok before I get into the next incident the dog is fine.  My neighbor's dog is kept up on the roof.  Many people here keep their dogs on their roofs to keep them away from all the stray dogs roaming around.  My neighbors dog likes to jump over onto our roof from time to time.  Here is a picture of her on my roof.  Well one day last week she decided to jump. I think she jumped because the neighborhood strays were in front of the house taunting her.  Anyway she's fine and back up on the roof.  I honestly don't know if she learned her lesson and won't jump again but I'll keep you posted. Last but not least we had a baby geiko who got into the house, crawled in between the glass of our coffee table and died.  So we had to extract the dead critter from the table.  Remember guys I don't like critters at all so I'm way outside of my comfort zone here but I'm surviving.

  

  

Anyway during his vacation we had  beach days, pool days, lazy days around the house and we visited the park where we got married back in October.  It was actually the first time since we got married that my husband and I have been back there together so we took some pictures in a couple of the locations where we took wedding photos.  

Here are a couple from our wedding day and ones we took recently near the same spots as the original pictures.

It was nice to visit again with my husband.  I often visit this location as it's close to my daily walk location.  It's a very beautiful place.

So back to status quo.  After my walk I usually visit one of the three supermarkets I frequent in town.  Back to the house to handle whatever household chores need done on that particular day, laundry, general cleaning and of course cooking.  It doesn't take me as long to handle these household chores as it did in the beginning so I have plenty of time during the day while my husband is at work to take care of things for my non profit A Blessing For You.   In fact it's consuming a lot of my time which is awesome, at least I think so.  The other day I was so engrossed in putting together baskets that I forgot to finish fixing dinner.  When my husband came home from work only the potatoes where done.  I forgot to cook the meat LOL.
During this trip I planned to bless 30 expectant mothers with Blessing Baskets and thus far we have delivered 18 baskets and the remaining 12 baskets will be delivered in the next two weeks.  As we deliver the baskets we've been updating our Facebook page with pictures and we've gotten a great response.  We've received 25 requests from women in the United States requesting baskets from 13 different states.  Needless to say when I get back to Pennsylvania I'm going to be busy LOL.  I started a Go Fund Me campaign to help purchase more supplies to meet the demand.  I'm including the link here in case you are interested in making a donation to this great cause.  https://www.gofundme.com/a-blessing-for-you
We also accept supplies which are needed to create the baskets.  I've attached a flyer which provides a list of the supplies needed.

That's all for now.  I'll be in touch again in a few weeks.  Again I invite you all to visit my page on Facebook A Blessing For You and our website www.AblessingForYou.org