Chocolate Butterflies ...

That family life that I loved so much.

I have always celebrated my children's birthdays at home, sometimes up to three celebrations if they fell on a weekday, the important thing was to celebrate their lives.

I have a lot of photo paper from my children's birthdays, and every time I check my memory trunk he smiled with a lot of joy, Ha ha ha.

And that's the most pleasant thing, the unexpected, because it generates stories and anecdotes and everything tastes like glory!

One, in their day, as they have always eaten at home, he had their favorite meal prepared for them when they came from school, and they received their family gifts; there was another day for the party with their class friends, which sometimes were all and if it was good, well, in the pool and at their bochinche if they were not very young, there was always a piñata even older, and lots of gifts.

And then another day for the grandparents and uncles, that the custom was to eat paella every birthday, because when she was born her uncle finished making paella in the garden at home, and she got the nickname of "the paella girl". 😄

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In total, we always celebrate birthdays a lot at home and as a family, especially of the children, she always with many friends from school who until she was 18 celebrated them at my house with a dinner in the living room putting together several tables.

I was very happy sharing my love for them and getting to know their friends from childhood to university.

Recently my youngest daughter turned 30 and all this has long since become a wonderful and endearing memory, and part of the story of my life.

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Free play and being able to move freely, it was so important...!

For the first 4 or 5 years of my three children I raised and educated them at home, based on respect for their being as children and not being interventionist, in order to allow their autonomy and their individual pace of development.

And every day kisses, hugs and loving words...

I tried to give them a lot of possibility to have their own initiatives of free movement and independent play. I looked after the physical and mental health of my children, taking into account movement, the outdoors, environments, food and all the hours of sleep according to their need and age.

And every day kisses, hugs and loving words.

Moving and experimenting is vital for children, and so they get to know their own body, the first thing they play with, and they are very important stimuli for their brain and creativity.

I remember this day with my children in the garden of the family house in Maracaibo, she was a very curious baby, and it occurred to her to try to get into that empty pot and put water to bathe in it, haha, I would never have thought to interrupt her or tell her how to do it, it was so nice to see her absorbed in herself trying postures in that space until she felt comfortable and in her balance.

I love these photos, (from summer 1995) she had very big hands and with a heart ❤️ from birth on the left. There have always been very handy and with a lot of sensitivity in their hands.

Magic hands, I've always said.

I have been very happy accompanying my children in their growing up, whenever I could, I had them naked playing at their leisure and watching them, and they really enjoyed their childhood, especially the last two because I could be calmer and available for them.

To be happy and have fun with the people you love, there only has to be the time and the willingness of everyone! They were years with their Fantastic encounters.

May God give me more moments so that they feed the family memories that is finally what is left of one when we are not on this plane.

Janitze 🦋