Lady in Spain.

Days do not get much better then today, in Spain. Well SUNDAYS in Spain don’t get much better then today. It was one of the those days where at the end when you are getting ready to go to bed you say to yourself (or in my case, my roommate) “gosh, today was just an all around good day” Just from start to finish things were just great!

First roommate and I got up and MADE banana pancakes. This is wonderful for a few reasons 1.) because we actually were able to to cook something ourselves, which doesn’t happen much in senoras house and 2.) because it was like a little slice of home, because we never have pancakes here. It was a nice break from corn flakes for breakfast and man, they were delish! Then we scurried on over to church where the message was from Mark talking about living by Faith and not having worries but just trusting God fully and being totally faithful in knowing that he will provide. It was so nice to hear that because I feel  like I have been struggling lately with fully believing that God will provide and so it was a nice little reality check. Plus we got to see all our friends at church and singing worship in Spanish is just my favorite thing, so the day just got better after that alone.

Did I mention it was a beautiful day too? Welp, it was SO nice outside, no clouds in sight and probs at 75/80 degrees!  Nothing says a good day like sunshine, let me just say that! But after church we mosey-ed on home and BAM the day got 5o times better because we had seafood paella, which is code for the best dish that has ever come out of senoras kitchen. AND it was just the four of us that were eating there so we could have as much as we wanted, which is also very rare, and so roommate and I took senora up on her offered and had about three plates of it. But I don’t regret it for one second, it is SO good. After that meal I didn’t think I could ever eat again so I waddled on down to my bed to take a nice little siesta.

Did I also forget to mention that it was moms birthday, welp it was! And I felt so sad that I couldn’t be home for it so I was really excited to skype her! But then she surprised me and when the skype video loaded BOOM there was good and pop whom I have not seen in person (rather over skype) since January which is a lifetime in Goo and Pop years and so I screamed of excitement because I miss those little nuggets so much! It was SO great to chat with the whole family and catch up, it was the high light of my day for sure. It felt like is was MY birthday or something, because of all the great things that had been happening…

Then for dinner, it just kept getting better because Senora made this wonderful pasta salad that I LOVE and we can also have as much as we wanted, so needless to say, my belly was real satisfied by the end of the day. But then somehow we got on the subject of Senoras and Marcos wedding and then the next thing I knew, we were looking at tons of  photo albums of their wedding, when they were just dating and when her kids were super young. It was SO fun to see all of their pictures, she had her first kid when she was 21, and they were so adorable back then and are still so cute now! I felt like I was with my own grandma looking at pictures, it was so fun! Senora totally loved it and then brought out more and it was just such a great bonding time. Her family is so cute and I just love hearing her talk about them! Then we showed her pictures of our trips and we were all just happy little clams. Then I look over and see Marcos doodling on something and he says its his 10 year old grandsons math homework and I just about died laughing because Ismael WOULD have his grandpa do his homework. Gosh I love that family.

 So that was my day, full of delish food and great conversations with both my American family and my Spanish family, I couldn’t have asked for a better Sunday in Spain!

Life is good my friends, life is good. OH, and I am going to Norway next weekend so who knows what that will hold!