Fall, Get up, Get Going

We too many times hold ourselves prisoners to our past. We do this without even realizing it. The past can not and should not define us and our future actions. Don't base your future on past events. We too often hold on to our past, and seldom let it go and let be. This is when shit hits the fan.The past is something unchangeable, nothing can change the past, only thing we can do is change our ways.

Remember, the thing we can do is take a lesson from it and move on....Dwelling is where you live not where you store your past.

I've too often tried I change what happen on the past, without realizing the errors of the past and do things differently.

We as human aren't perfect, we live and learn; so by saying that I say this, you fall get up and dust off the dirt and keep on moving. If you stop an ponder that fall, that's when it will hurt like a bitch.Wake up everyday with a smile, because tomorrow is never ever promised, and if you can't then try...never hurts, NEVER.....

How time flies?! We'll just have to catch it...

Alright, so it has been a long time since my last piece....I am a non-frequent flier of the BLOGGIN world...meaning I barely write crap...anyways, in the time that I wasn't writing on this awesome blog spot, I was working, being an awesome husband (yes, we got hitched), working some more, and twitting. But yea, more has happened, my wife (erica) has changed her last name permanently to a more Latino sounding last name..hahaha. also, her tummy which we will now call, Izaiah's tiny-one-bedroom-with an expiring lease-space, has grown exponentially. We have also decided to name our little one, obviously as you can see in the last sentence, Izaiah Lysander De La Cruz. His name was quite exciting to conjure, and actually hard too...Well, Izaiah we both decided on the name, more my wife's idea, which I then loved, and the change of the S to a Z was to give it a unique touch to it. Now Lysander, is a sorta greek name, with a more artisitic-warrior thing. It is Unique and it flows with Izaiah...so there you have it "IZAIAH LYSANDER DE LA CRUZ". Love writing it.

So, aside from all the exciting name changes and creation and fun stuff, a seriousness about this pregnancy has struck me deep. One that I hope many parents, or parents to be, take when they are expecting. ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BE INFORMED, about everything. Watching a documentary tonight opened my eyes to a lot of things I didn't know. Pregnant In America by Steve Buonaugurio, covers things like C-section and Epidurals and Inducing and a lot more other things. and it really got me thinking. Thinking that I am the one that CARES for my own, my family and their well-being. As a soon to be parent, I need to ask questions and be kept informed about things that happen, medically to my family. I hope many future parents take a look at this documentary and learn about certain questions that might arise during this life altering experience.

Well, listen I hope you all enjoyed this little grammatically incorrect post. Please leave your comments. I will do my best to keep writing.

Erica is 35 weeks this Tuesday, only 5 more and Izaiah would be here...SUPER STOKED....I will post some pic later on...

Keep us in your prayers. Have a bless one. Ciao

Its been too long...

It has been 83 days to the day, that I wrote my last blog...yes, pretty sad for this to be an awesome project. Well, here I go at it again. I have a good friend of mines that is doing his own blog pertaining to his experience during a 3-month trial dealing with his own situation. With his decision to write, I remembered that I to once had a blog...SOO, here are updates; the belly is growing, baby is healthy and the mommy-to-be is on her yoga at this very moment that I am writing this. (lol, prego yoga). In the past couple months we have gone through a rocky road, dealing with lots of things on our plate and dealing with a pregnancy at a young age will get you to an exasperated point (at times) and can be difficult. The best we have done is stick to our guns, and be good to one another and grow and learn together.

So happy good news. Erica is on her 21st week of pregnancy, she can feel the baby move and do somersaults(exaggerative) within. We decided on finding out the gender of the baby. ::drum role please:: BOY...our bean has gone to become a lil boy growing in there. So now imagine how excited I am to have a lil man, SUPER EXCITED. We have purchased two of the most important items for a newborn, and those were pretty hefty, but well worth it.

Now, here is a funny story about the doctor that attended for the anatomy screening last week. So, we get in, she is being prepped and the nurse starts showing images of the fetus and telling us all the body parts and telling us good stuff and all. then without hesitation or a "SURPRISE" she says "well, its a boy". I automatically said YOU SURE..lol..yea questioning the 'professional'. Nurse leaves and the Doctor comes in and says he has to do another check see because the images were unclear. I kinda panic, sweat-ed a lil, I was confused didn't know if to worry or not, and the dude seemed like a real douche , so he continues with the images and  just confirms that the baby is indeed healthy and all well, and a BOY. (btw he gave me credit for being concern for the health instead of the gender, yep yep)lol...anyways we have a healthy baby boy that is still developing and can't wait to have him here.

here is an updated ultrasound pic:

Our Little Bean!!! 9 wks and 2 days...30 more wks..

So our bean is growing and being a pain to my lovely FIANCÉ (hahaha, like saying that), but its something I sure is worth it (sowie)...so we went for an Ultrasound and got the BIG PICTURE.

2.48cm and growing :-D....this is a blessing, it definitely hit us then that this is real and a huge part of our lives.

We have a couple names but nothing set in stone yet...once that 18th week comes by, the ball will start rolling :-D...

Stay tune to more pics...

hopefully this writing phase will become an awesome project, that I can look back and be proud of.

Oooohhh December!

I'ts been a while since I've written here and since then its been a while ride. Month of December brought a truck load of news. First I had an amazing surprise party at EDO's, a hibachi style Japanese restaurant, pretty cool. Moving on to the following week December 8th, 2010 @ 6pm I received the news of a lifetime, I was going to be a father.

Yeah, me a father. I had crazy emotions going, happy, sad, happy again, worried, happy again, excited, happy again. (lol) yea it was a ride, and I loved it.

The following days things went very well, we had very deep talks, and first appointment, it was all true and we just kept getting more excited. Books and guides became our bibles, it was like something out of a movie.

Much better news followed weeks after, my mom came to NY from DR, to stay and that was just an amazing thing. She now gets to spend that time with us.

I decided  to proceed with my plans to get a Ring *(yea , 'every kiss begins with Kay'), and propose to her, it was a funny experience, but nonetheless, very rewarding. I proposed at 10ish on December 31st, on the stairs of our place (yea, not romantic but I am spontaneous ;-) she obviously said yes and here we are today.

Well this was Numero Tres Blogo...lets see where this trip takes us...Deuces and ciao

This is the Beautiful lady that brought me to this world..

Number Dos: 12:34

Started summer of 2006, don't even know how it got to this point, but 12:34 has been haunting me ever since. It has actually become almost like a subconscious stimuli, like I see that time and I remember that summer of '06 when I first saw those 4 digits on the clock in my dad's house...its been 4 years and it seriously still happens almost daily now, I would be randomly talking to someone or Erica, and out of nowhere I decide to look at the clocks or computers around me and 12:34 is flashing in its full glow....showing of yet again that its power to captivate me, yet again is winning...yea like magic it happens time and time again. Shoot I have even try looking the damn sucker up in books, newspapers, online, even the bible to see if its a secret code of something that I have to decipher (yea nuts) but I think not, I say more OCD right now...lol...seriously I've come to realize that I even try to find algorithms or something by mixing and matching numbers just to see if its something of significance to me...but I guess I'll have to wait and see...but promise when a significant event happens that 12:34 is part of that even, I will let you guys know...


Anyway, have a save and fun weekend...much love

Peace. Love. & Chicken grease...

Z.A.D

Day One of a New venture

So, this is my first blog EVER! I've had an urge to write for the past month or so and now, I've done it.

(Before I start, please excuse my writing style and grammatical errors)

Well, let me start by saying this past year has been a whirlwind and things have been moving so fast. I moved in with my amazing girlfriend this past June and have had a very interesting experience moving in together. She comes from a very tight-knit family from Malone, NY. I also come from a close family, but I, liking to be and odd ball like to do things different. I can say this was the start of something bueno..

I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and at the age of 6 I came with my older sister to live with my dad in NYC. I assimilated really fast with the american lifestyle, learning the english language quickly and picking up many 'new yokah' mannerisms. As a small family just us three,  I believe we struggled, I more than my sister, got in lots of trouble at school (i.e. bad grades, disruptive behavior, etc.) I was always reprimanded something that I kinda got used to, and I ultimately changed. Living in the US without a mother figure around was tough, we would get to see our mom (that lived in DR) rarely, but we made it work and did the best we could. I attended the famous DeWitt Clinton High School, definitely proud of that. In 2005, I went and moved to northern NY to go to school at SUNY Canton (this is a blog on its own). After my stay at SUNY Canton I went to the United States Marine Corp. Officer Candidate School, a ridiculously stressful, tough, and fun experience. Now I work at a non-profit that seeks to help out the communities and families in the 5 boroughs of NYC. At the same time I am looking forward to the many endeavors I'm seeking to get into.

This is merely the first of many blogs, hoping this become more than just an online adventures. I'll catch ya on the next one...peace.

Eat.Pray.Love











Z.A.D