Saturday, March 5, 2011

The REAL Housewives of Madrid

I really think it should be mandated that weekends need to be for three days instead of two. The weekends go by so quickly! I spend five days looking forward to the weekend, only to see the days pass by in the blink of an eye. It's just unfair. Anyways, I was planning on getting a rough draft finished of my paper that's due in two weeks, but here we are on Saturday evening and I'm staring at a blank screen.

This afternoon, I went to a friend of the family's (that I live with) house. All of the moms got together and the kids played. All sixteen of them. Anyways, I ate lunch with the moms and it was pure comedy. The house we went to was an actual house and it was beautiful. This was my first time in a house here. I mean, a brick home with a backyard. One of my first graders from school was there with his mother and sister. I may actually start baby-sitting for them every once in awhile, because the parents go out every weekend and they live close to me. They all sat around talking about everything - kids, having babies, c-sections, etc. It was quite hilarious. Of course, I couldn't really chime in and say, "Oh yeah, I was in so much pain after my c-section too!" But I found it quite amusing. And also a good reminder that I'm nowhere near having children of my own. Come to think of it, it was a reminder to myself that I don't want to have any. (Especially after hearing about their childbirth pains. I promise every time I hear about someone giving birth, I cringe and shudder. I guess it also doesn't help that I get a pain in my stomach hearing about it....) I was planning on taking a bus back to town, but the mother of my student drove me back into town. It was only a fifteen minute ride, so she said she didn't mind.

Anyways, as I was sitting in this gorgeous home with the women, I realized that this was a page straight out of the TV series The Real Housewives of.... Some of you all remember that back in the fall, I blogged about passing the days with the Real Housewives of Madrid at the pool. But after today, I realized that the first group is just a bunch of housewife wannabees. Kinda like the trashy version. This group of housewives are legitimate. Highly educated and driving BMWs and Mercedes....My kind of people!

I had to be at school today because we had activities planned for the Amigos de Jesus kids. We celebrated Carnaval and they all wore costumes. It was fun, but I must say I am beyond exhausted. To go from a house with 16 kids to a school activity with another 50 will wear you out! This is the earliest I'm going to bed in awhile. My 11:00 bedtime hasn't been working out so well for me lately and I've been tired. I need to get back on it.

I hope everyone had a relaxing Saturday!

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