Meli's world

    Is it me or has the world lost its mind? There’s always certain headlines that grab my attention and usually isn’t for the right reasons. The one that has got me completely baffled is one that is not only making headlines in the news but also filling up my Facebook newsfeed and apparently being retweeted and reposted on Instagram. This picture has gone viral and received over 30,000 likes on the first day it was posted. It is a picture of a felon, his mugshot from the police department's Facebook page where he is being held on 6 felony charges. It seems ladies think this criminal is so good looking, that they wouldn’t mind dating him. Some have even made a facebook fan page for him. They are willing to overlook his felonies and the fact he is being held on $1 million dollar bail. According to his family, he is a married father who is working to put his past behind him. And how many of us don’t have a past that we ar...

Today, in honor of Father's day, I would like to dedicate this blog to my father, husband and all the wonderful men taking on the role of fatherhood. I think its so easy for the media and the culture to give men a bad rap as deadbeat dads, but never acknowledging the men that do step up, and not only have kids, but become their provider, their guidance, and their discipline. Growing up, I have always been so thankful for my father. He came to this country as a young man with nothing. No English, no money. Just his Visa and my great grandma's apartment in Chicago. He was never afraid of hard work though. He took all types of odd jobs and was always able to finally get my mom to move here from Colombia as well. They would later marry and start a family. I always looked at my dad as my hero. I couldn't be convinced that there was a harder working guy out there. Growing up, he worked 2 jobs, worked the overnight shift...sometimes 12 hours in a row and would still get ...

Just a couple minutes ago, I closed the blinds in my house because it was too sunny. A few minutes later it became as dark as night and the thunderstorm started. God has created our universe and everything in it. We all share in the natural things of life, both the sun and the rain, the good and the bad, the happy and the sad. We all experience like circumstances, but what makes us different or sets us apart is how we react to the circumstances or even how we learn to appreciate both the sun and the rain. I love this bible verse, because its always a good reminder that the sunny times are not a reward, or the rain a punishment. Both were given to all of us, good or evil. In the past couple of months I experienced sunny times. Things were going well. We were able to take the kids on our first real family vacation to Disney World, we were getting involved and meeting new people at church, my husband received a promotion and went to a corporate training, and we were even beginn...

As you may know by now, I am a sucker for love. I love love...romance, marriage and everything that grows from it. I think its so beautiful to see 2 people come together and become one, one flesh, one family, one life with hopefully one vision for their future. Having met my husband at such a young age, nothing was more significant to me then growing together,  and building our lives together. However, with all that I've learned from marriage in the past 10 years, by experience and others, I realize some of the most romantic concepts we have in our head regarding true love, are not only untrue but also sets up for disappointment and depression if we are not careful. First one that irritates me was made famous by Tom Cruise prior to his couch jumping days. Everybody, even if you're like me and never actually watched it knows this line from : Jerry McGuire... The popular idea that our significant other will be our "other half". The other term people use which ...