Happy 4th of July! We celebrated with homemade blueberry cobbler and vanilla ice cream. mmmm.... It was a nice treat after a long week.
Alberto had his citizenship test on Wednesday - passed with flying colors of course. Probably scored higher than I would have actually. I mean who remembers who wrote the Federalist Papers?! I'm not even sure I know what they are. Now he just has to go to the final ceremony and he'll be officially part gringo. Only took five years and a few thousand bucks. Not bad considering what some people go through. The funny thing is that he's opted for citizenship so that we have the flexibility to leave the US. As a resident he could only leave the country for six months at a time, and we'd like to be able to live with the kids in Mexico at some point.
And apparently we'd better have good documentation for our family relationships or you never know what will happen. Alberto was on the subway with Santiago the other day and an old white woman actually said to him: "Pretty baby. Must have cost you at least $30,000." ?!?!? Do people really say such things? When I carried Pablo around as a baby in Mexico, I did get funny looks sometimes - Pablo looked much more Mexican and just like Beto as a baby and Santiago looks much more gringo and like me -but Mexicans are far too polite to actually say anything. But here in the good ole US of A, freedom of speech has no bounds!
Anyway, enjoy the fireworks!
2 comments:
And was that ever some good blueberry cobbler!
Hope you all got to enjoy the fireworks, too!
Mom
Congrats to Alberto, and I hope July has been good to y'all and that you are enjoying the summer.
Love you!
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