Dominican Housewife Chronicles - Things just keep getting better

Hey everyone.  It's been two weeks since I got back so it was time for an update.  Right before I came back my husband lost his job.  The reason why is still a little fuzzy to me but it's okay he was going to quit soon anyway once he gets his visa.  I must admit I was a little concerned about how things would be with us both being here at the house all day long.  I have been very pleasantly surprised at how well we've adapted to having so much time together LOL.  Since I've been back my husband has been doing the majority of the cooking which is awesome because I love his cooking.  Let me tell ya'll something.  He makes the best potato salad.  It's just so good and I don't understand why LOL.  He's also been doing most of the cleaning and washing the clothes.  Okay so when he cooks I usually end up cleaning up the kitchen and it's a real chore.  I do not know how he gets food everywhere while he cooks but I'm not going to worry about it.  The food is always good and I don't mind cleaning up the kitchen.  Here are a couple of pictures from Snap chat I took of his cooking.

We've been handling the household chores together.  Like washing clothes he does the heavy duty work, the washing, rinsing, softening etc process  and I hang the clothes on the line and then retrieve them and put everything away.  There are fewer trips to the grocery store and we have been doing the grocery shopping together also which I really enjoy.  More beach time and pool time together.  My husband recently discovered this little restaurant by the beach and he loves their food. I say he recently discovered because I already knew about it and would often go there for lunch while he was at work.  Yesterday we just went there for lunch.  Sat by the water ate and enjoyed each others company.  It was awesome. So you see why I titled this one things just keep getting better? 

You might be wondering what I'm doing ll day long if he's basically doing all the things I used to do during the day.  Well I spent a lot of time stalking the NVC's (National Visa Centers) website and harassing my attorney's paralegal.   I mentioned in a prior post that we got approval from the Department of Immigration so now our case is with the NVC.  We have provided them with all of the requested documentation so now we wait for them to review everything and set a date for his via interview.  I stalk their website daily to check for any updates which is completely unnecessary because they email you whenever there is a change but I just can't help myself.  The other day I received an email that there was an update to our case while we were outside washing clothes.  I ran into the house and logged into their website, well I should say I tried to log into their website because it literally took me two hours to get into their website.  It is the most frustrating process.  Each and every time I try to log into it it takes me multiple attempts and lots of time.  I'm persistent though so I think after trying for like 50 times it just gives up and lets me in LOL.  So anyway the other day there was an issue with the marriage certificate that needed to be handled.  I feel so bad for the paralegal in my attorneys office because I gave her the blues.  I mean once I got into the website and saw what was wrong I sent her like three emails which she didn't respond to within 5 minutes so then I called her LOL.  I was surprised she took my call but she did.  So after she investigates what is needed which was the certified version of the marriage certificate she tells me that I need to have it translated to English.  I became unglued.  I didn't understand why a Spanish document needed to be translated to English for what I thought was a Spanish agency.  Notice how I said what I thought?  Well I was wrong and after giving her the blues about it I was able to get it translated and back to her within 2 hours.  I did include an apology to her in the email because I was a little rude.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who has gotten snippy with her because this process is very nerve racking. 

When I'm not stalking the NVC or harassing paralegals I've been meddling with my two daughters lives.  They are both apartment hunting right now.  One has a hard date of November 1st to be out of her existing place and the other just needs to find her way out of my house as soon as possible :-). So I've been looking for places and sending them leads.  Also been keeping busy with A Blessing For You.  We've received several dozen basket request within the past few weeks and unfortunately very little donations.  We're going to have to stop accepting requests for awhile and work on getting more donations.  If you're reading this and feel so inclined to donate you can do so in two ways.  1) We have a go fund me:
https://www.gofundme.com/blessing-baskets-for-new-moms&rcid=r01-153869132542-049bba7fb0b8457c&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w

2) You can also donate supplies from the attached list:

I'm also still working on getting my latest book released this year.  Fingers and toes crossed that it can still happen.

That's all for now.  Until next time everyone be blessed.  Remember to try to be a blessing to someone else everyday in some way.