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Posts tagged "Ana Belaval"

NATO summit & the city kid

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“After tomorrow the NATO ends and we can all go back to our places. We can all be happy.” Amelia, 4 yrs old This is what  my daughter told me at bed time last night after three days of seeing her life inconvenienced by the NATO summit taking place in Chicago.  We live in the neighborhood... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
Monday at 8:27 am
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Working Mom guilt

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Last Friday, I had one of the best days at my daughter’s school. It was the Mother’s Day Celebration and the pre school teachers didn’t forget a thing. The kids sang, read poems, served us treats. The decorations were adorable and the goodie bags included a sugar body scrub (I know, fancy) that each student... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
May 14, 2012 at 5:21 am
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Tell them what you want

My policy about gifts is the one my mother practices until this day: “Tell him what you want, leave no room for disappointing surprises.” Notice I said him, that’s because most of the time, my mother used that strategy with my father. She was all for surprises at the beginning of their relationship. They were... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
May 7, 2012 at 3:58 pm
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Sleep specialist

I gave in, I threw in the towel, I called, well, I cried out for help. Coming back from a 5 day vacation where my four year old and I slept in the same room, her infamous and well documented sleeping issues were at their worst. She was not only waking up at 3AM because... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
April 23, 2012 at 5:25 am
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Help a mom out

You can’t ban families with children from flying the friendly skies. I agree that, at times, kids don’t make for the best travel companions, but I oppose any thought of grounding families like mine. With that said, I do believe it is the parents responsibility to do anything possible to control their children at the... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
April 16, 2012 at 5:29 am
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Kids and technology

Motherhood has taught me,time and again, that you can never say never. Case in point, I told my husband I would never buy our toddler her own iTouch.  “She’s 2, she can’t have a device that costs over $100.”  Well, Amelia doesn’t have her own iTouch, but uses one of our old iPhones to watch her... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
April 2, 2012 at 9:22 am
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Mom inventions

I had to go to an event a few weeks ago, so my husband was in charge of taking our daughter to swim class all by himself. Amelia has been taking  swimming lessons  for almost a year now and, most of the time, both of us go with her.  Hence my surprise when I told my... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
March 26, 2012 at 10:28 am
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Fighting her fight

The Belaval-Diaz kids were taught to talk it out; whatever it was, could be solved through dialogue. Like the good Catholics Mami and Papi are, they raised their kids to always “turn the other cheek.” As a girl, that worked very well, but even my parents agree that my brother Mario would have been better... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
March 19, 2012 at 5:11 am
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No children allowed

We are the kind of parents that did not take our daughter to a restaurant, even one that would be considered child friendly with the crayons and kid’s menu, during her terrible two’s. We couldn’t handle the stress of keeping her in check and didn’t think it was fair to impose her behavior upon other... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
March 5, 2012 at 5:25 am
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First Halloween, now Valentine's Day?

You know how I told you that I hated Halloween until my daughter started getting into it? Well, I don’t despise Valentine’s Day as much, but I’ve never been a fan either.  Well, guess who emailed the pre school teachers to find out what Valentine’s treats Amelia could bring to school tomorrow? Yep, yours truly. ... Read more »
By Ana Belaval,
February 13, 2012 at 8:33 am
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