Sad music video

Ok so I am not the best at titles. Anyway, I was watching TV this morning and we always flip from cartoons to the music channel (bandamax..do they have this in Mexico?)
A song comes on by Ricardo Arjona and Intocable called 'Mojado' I have seen the video before, but it was one of those videos that I like to see, no matter how many times a day it comes on. It was so sad to me to see al the crosses of the people who have died trying to cross the border to get here probably to make a better life for their children. It show little clips of vidoes where the border patrol is getting the people and then it shows a mother and her baby. I just think that is sad how these people have to suffer. I wonder if the immigration law makers even know or care what these people go through. Not only walking for days or weeks in the heat with no water and no food, but having to leave their children and mothers and fathers to come over here and try to make a better life for them. There has to be an answer somewhere, we really need a reform that is going to help these people who come over and are hard workers.
Example, I have a friend who I work with and his sister-in-law is in the hospital here in the US and she is in a coma. She has been in a coma for a while. She has not seen her son since he was 4 and now he is 16 years old. They were trying to get him a Visa to come over because she is in her last days, they would not give it to him. I do not know all the details, but that is sad. I do not know why she has been here 12 years, but I bet that her check went to him and his grandmother (or whoever takes care of him) for school and clothes and food. Me personally I would have had him here with me, but maybe she has her reasons. Another friend of mine told me that the people who bring you over are sometimes mean and will abandon you in the desert if you do not walk fast enough. She said they had to help carry a woman who could not walk anymore, she was in her 40's they say. Daddy Edgar tells me bits and pieces of the pasada but I do not ask much because I get all sad and stuff.
Daddy Edgar has been here 4 years without seeing his family. I am going with him when he goes, but I can not imagine not seeing my grandmother. My grandmother raised me and I am really close to her, she is my mother.
Anyway, I know this video is on You Tube. Check it out. I have never seen the frontera like this. Daddy Edgar says that it really looks like that too. There is one memorial that says 'no olvidado' (not forgotten) and I think that is the saddest to me.

A few new happenings..since 9/11

Well, I am not the best at posting every day not really even every other day, but as soon as I get a computer at home I am going to post more. Well since my last post a few things have happened.. yesterday my kids passports came in the mail. I was excited to get them and daddy edgar was too. Their pictures looked so cute even though they said my daughter could not smile.
We live with daddy edgar's cousin and we were talking last night and he told me that a little boy (10 years old) had passed away from the dengue fever. I was thinking that this was some kind of serious flu like thing that was passing around the community. I remembered seeing it on searchingbliss's posts, so I looked at it and 1 of the comments said that it was west nile. So that made me feel a little better. I got to thinking though, how could someone die of west nile? That was here in the US and I never heard of alot of deaths- or am I not remembering well? Anyway, his cousin was telling me that they were having the little boy's funeral today and that when he talked to his wife she was heloing make tamales. He said that everyone in the area would go to the family's house and sit up all night with them and have tamales. I told my grandmother and she said that sounds like what they used to do here. She remembered her aunt of grandfather passing away and everyone came to the house for the viewing and stayed with them all night. So here in the US we used to do alot they do in Mexico. I thought that was cool that my grandmother knew about all that.
I have been wanting to go to Mexico and take my kids because abuela wants to see her 1st grandson so bad. He will be 9 months on the 29th and I really feel bad about not taking him a long time ago. Right when I was planning on going, here comes swine flu. I am going to wait until December. I'd like to go around the 14th so abuela would get to feel like she celebrated Christmas and his birthday with him. She is so nice and she always asks about Elisa and wants her to come also. She wants them to stay for a long time (like a few months) and I am not ready for that yet. I was thinking about maybe trying to meet her for a few days close to the border so she could atleast see him a few days.
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Remembering 9/11

I just wanted to do a quick post to remind everyone to remember everyone who was involved in the tradgedy 9/11. I was thinking about everyone this morning and I remembered where I was the morning that it happened. I was just waking up and a friend of mine had stayed the night and I went to the living room and she was crying about what had happened. She is a good friend of mine named Jessica, who I have not introduced in my blog yet. But anyway she is sentimental like I am. I was shocked because we did not know what was going to happen next. I went to the gas station because someone said that gas was going to be out of sight within a few hours and the gas stations were packed! It was a sad day and still is thinking of all the innocent people whose lives were basically stolen from them. All the babies, kids, mothers, fathers, mothers-to-be, fathers-to-be, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, cousins that were lost. I guess I am one to put myself in situations and I think that what if it was my husband or fiance or my kids who were lost and what the lonlieness must feel like. I better end now or I will be crying at work.
Leave me some comments you guys, let me know how you felt or what you were doing this day.