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Archives for June 2007

Just roll with it …

June 29, 2007 By Marta Darby 2 Comments

One of my faithful readers turns fourteen today. She is a sweet, smart, and talented young lady. And the kind of person you want your own daughter to be friends with, which works out well, really, because she's one of Lucy's dearest friends.  Not only that, but I adore the rest of her family, too. So, it's all good. Happy Birthday, Ali. And ...

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As you wish.

June 28, 2007 By Marta Darby 13 Comments

For my birthday last month Eric got me the most fabulous gift - a projector and a giant 10 foot screen. I know what you're thinking: "Wow. How romantic."  (Not!) But, seriously, I have been wanting this for YEARS. But let me tell you why.I want to show movies outside in my backyard. (I told you I love movies.) So, we're ...

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Six degrees of dinner conversation…

June 27, 2007 By Marta Darby 19 Comments

The discussions around our dinner table are never dull. We are constantly trying to stump each other with questions. Sometimes we play "Twenty Questions" or "World's Worst." But we always get back to movies. We love movies. We (by choice) don't have cable, so we don't watch tv. (although, I admit we do have some tv on dvds)But ...

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Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks

June 25, 2007 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

Lucy and Amy are at the Angels game tonight against the Kansas City Royals. At this hour, the Royals are wiping the field with the Angels, but do these girls care?Noooo. Why not? Because they get to wear RED.Because they get to do the wave.Because there are fireworks when the Angels score.Because of the rally monkey.Because they play salsa music ...

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A Riddle

June 25, 2007 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

Q: What's Cuban and rhymes with "EYE CANDY?" A: Seriously. Do I really need to spell it out? ;-) [sigh] Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict in  Ocean's Thirteen. ...

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Party people

June 24, 2007 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

We celebrated Ben's birthday with a pool party yesterday.  It was a beautiful day and great fun and I can't believe I forgot my camera. =( But here are a few of the cousins at the "after party." Where was this "after party?" Well ... the girls are sitting at the foot of their grandmother's bed...in the hospital.(everything ...

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Just us.

June 23, 2007 By Marta Darby 4 Comments

Amy had a birthday on the 16th of this month.And I took her to see Chayanne.And I won't even mention that whole trip-to-Miami thing. ;-) And she did get to celebrate with her friends and go dancing and all that. But, our family dinner was preempted by Father's Day and a houseful of people. And she still wanted our traditional "family ...

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Pomp and Circumstance

June 22, 2007 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

If you had met my sweet Lucy a few years ago, your impression would probably be that she was a quiet girl.You might even be tempted to use the word, shy. But, I'll just put all speculation to rest.All my kids have very BIG personalities.But Lucy does fall into the "quiet" category when you first meet her or don't know her very well. I got ...

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“Hay sol bueno y mar de espuma. . .”

June 21, 2007 By Marta Darby 10 Comments

Varadero, Cuba. Summer of 1960.The one on the far left and the tall one are two of my sisters, Alina and Miriam. The other 3 are cousins. During the course of the summer there would be 14 more kids - all of our cousins, from 5 families, sharing that beach house.It even had a name: Villa ObduliaI think Obdulia was the daughter of the lady who ...

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Keep the faith

June 20, 2007 By Marta Darby 5 Comments

Look at that beautiful vine growing in the corner of the patio there.(pay no attention to my daughter and her hula-hoop, even though she is REALLY good at it, but that's not important right now)I swear. I have these four big, fat pots sitting in each corner of my patio and in them are these amazingly gorgeous flowering vines.No, this isn't like my ...

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That face

June 19, 2007 By Marta Darby 5 Comments

I know. Look at that face.You're melting, aren't you?Is it the blond hair and blue eyes?Or is it just that expression?This is Ben. Benicio.My niece, Helen's son.Which makes him my grand-nephew.And half Garcia.He's two today.I was tempted to put about eighty of the thousands of pictures I take of him up here today, but I settled on this one.Because ...

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My Perfect Day

June 18, 2007 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

Let me describe what, for me, would be a Perfect Day: Spend the entire day at the lake.Take along Daryl, Helen, Daisy and Ben.Sit and yak and yak and yak. ;-)Swim.Play volleyball.Build sandcastles.Come home and barbecue mass quantities of food.Have my in-laws join us for dinner.Enjoy Grandma's homemade caramel chocolate chip cookies, and fudge ...

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She IS the boss of me.

June 18, 2007 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

It was a busy weekend for us with all the birthday celebrations and Father's Day. But I took the day off from my real life last Friday to go help out at the CKU convention in Anaheim (scrapbooking event). There was no way I was going to be able to actually attend the entire thing (which made me sad in like 10 different ways) because Lucy had a ...

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God’s gift

June 17, 2007 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

WARNING: Intensely personal story coming up:When Eric and I first met, the one line description of my life read as follows:DIVORCED, THIRTY-THREE YEAR OLD MOTHER OF TWO.I always thought of it like that. Like an Enquirer headline. It felt so dramatic and so final and so unappealing.  It felt more like:NO MONEY. NO LIFE. NO FUTURE.When I met ...

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Amy Jean Jelly Bean

June 16, 2007 By Marta Darby 5 Comments

She looks angelic, doesn't she?This is Amy in 1985.She was 2 years old. And I know she will totally hate this, but I still see her just like this sometimes.Looking at her through the mom-lens. Today she turns 24.Twenty-four! I used to just stare at her when she was sleeping and wonder what she would look like when she grew up. I thought she was ...

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