It's funny how our roles have reversed. I worry about making her meals and making sure she eats. I help her dress.I take her places. Yesterday we spent hours at Armstrong's Nursery. (I think I inherited my love for gardening from her.) We walk and examine every beautiful bloom. We are admiring the pictures of the bulbs and deciding together ...
Archives for October 2007
Drama Mama
I did the math.(probably because I had math on the brain this week. =D) I have been a Drama Mom for twenty-two years. (I know. I've probably been a Drama Queen for much, much longer, but that's not important right now. =D) And I still clearly remember the moment Amy toddled across the stage in a tutu and wings as an angel in the church ...
Because I live in a Parallel Universe (in which ninety is the new fifty)
I often get asked these two questions: "Do you still have family in Cuba?" and "Have you ever been back?"The answers are yes and no. In August of 2002 we hosted a family reunion here in Mission Viejo. Three of my mom's four siblings were able to come - two of them traveling from Cuba and one from Miami. There ...
Portrait of a tortured artist
My life is busy in the best possible way. It is busy with people and projects. Some of the busyness is imposed from the outside, but every now and then I go on a creative bender and my life gets crazy-busy. (are there support groups for this??) I homeschool my two kids and I cook and I scrapbook and I blog and I design and I just ...
Aren’t I the lucky one?
I write a lot about my husband. And he truly is as wonderful as he seems. But let's just give credit where credit is due, shall we? He has become the man he is today thanks to this amazing woman:To my sweet MIL (mother-in-love =D), Nancy: Happy, Happy Birthday and . . . THANKS! "For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or ...
Math inferiority
I am an Artist.Right-brained.Creative.Spontaneous.Random. My kids are all those things, too. They are also comedians. (Jon added the theory of relativity when he saw I was taking pictures - cracked me up. =D) But part of educating them means doing left-brain functions, like math. (heavy, heavy sigh) My friend Pam is a Math ...
Love/Hate
I hate it when he's gone. Hate it. I have trouble sleeping when he's gone, and so I pile up pillows on "his side" in an attempt to fool myself that he is there. It doesn't work. So I struggle with the insomnia. I tell myself that because it's just me and the kids we can just go out and get a burger for dinner and I don't have ...
on fear and stickiness.
Isn't this a cool piece of art? Eric got it for me a couple of years ago and I just love it. That has always been my "mantra." (well, technically, I'm not really sure what a mantra is, but I know it's a form of self-talk, so just go with me on this one. =D) "I am Fearless."Okay. It's not really true. Or at least it wasn't. I ...
Cheaters never prosper.
I'm so obedient. My friend, Nora, posted about her love for Scrabble which gave me an idea for our family game night. The snack, BTW, was my pastelitos de guayaba. ;-) So we got kind of psyched about our Scrabble game, and we pulled out the dusty old board. (Hey, it's actually pretty nice. Who knew?) Somewhere along the line we picked up ...
Four-Bucks
It's me, Amy. The Sell-Out. I had a desperate moment. I was out of café. I was exhausted. I was running late (or is it "latte"?) I sold out. I BOUGHT my morning cafécito from STARBUCKS!!And this is how it went: I walked in, feeling ashamed. I kept my sunglasses on so I could not be recognized. I waited in ...