Happy September, you guys!!
Sorry for the long silent treatment around here….I know, I know…almost died without me….hahahha of course not!
Nothing special going around here lately, just living the common house wife life, except with one more addition to it!
I decided to properly introduce Paco (Paquito is little Paco in Portuguese ❤ ) on the blog! If you follow me on Instagram (@brunaiglezias), you know that it has been just a little more than one month that Paco is in our lives!
I disappeared a little bit from the blog a few days, because a lot is going on around here. We arrived in Brazil last week to resolve some personal issues…and also we kinda eloped! I posted almost two weeks ago that we got engaged…it was probably the fastest engagement ever! hahahaha We were already thinking of getting married this year, but since our future is very uncertain we decided to go to the civil registry office last Friday and get married! We told our family and the most closest friends, so that they would come and also be our witnesses. Of course we wanted to do a little ceremony with all of our family and friends, I would put on a wedding dress and have an unforgettable day, but for now this is what we could do. Maybe in a near future we will make this dream come true 🙂
Today I’m not going to post about my five favourites of this week, because something much more important is in my mind. Today was supposed to be my dad’s 65th birthday, and I bet that my mom would cook a great dinner if they were still here. When my father passed away, I was 14 years old and it was just 5 years after my mother’s death. It was sudden, nobody in my family was expecting that to happen…a heart attack during his sleep. I also like to think that it was peaceful, of all the things that could happen, at least this type is quick. I would also like to say that he didn’t suffer, but I would not be telling the truth. He broke his heart before when the great love of his life, his rock, his everything passed away. When she died, I was 9 years old, and I can remember that when I received the news, I changed a little bit…I became more introspective. I can’t imagine what my father went through, because he lost three important things at once: his job as a teacher and researcher at a big university in Brazil (which he dedicated his whole life to), his mother (two months earlier), then the mother of his children. How are you supposed to continue your life, with two girls to raise (my sister was 17 at the time) after you lost some of the most important things in your life?
This past week was a really important week for us, on September 16th we celebrated 4 years together! Hooray 😀 We celebrated with two date nights: in and out. On Wednesday, Rafael made this incredible bruschetta with prosciutto, figs and camembert cheese, the most perfect combination if you ask me! And of course we opened a bottle of red wine and enjoyed the company of Dexter Morgan while we were at it! We started watching Dexter on Netflix three weeks ago, and we are so hooked up, we just finished the third season. It’s amazing how his character is so well built, you get so involved in his life that you start cheering for him, although he is a serial killer…it only happens in fiction! hahahaha
These are probably my favourite photos of my mother (her name was Vera), they were taken before I was born. Today was supposed to be her 64th birthday. It has been 16 years, she passed away when I was 9, luckily I had the chance to spend those years with her. She was a librarian, but preferred to stay at home to take care of me and my sister, whose 8 years older than me.
Flowery Soul 