It's a week before Christmas and I find this taped to my studio door. What on earth. . .? Oh yes, it's crunch time. You see we (Amy, Lucy and I) make a Christmas film every year. We take all our home movies and set them to music and cut the clips together and give it a fun title and ta-da! it becomes a family keepsake. Okay, so ...
Archives for December 2007
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles
Hershey's Chocolate is celebrating 100 years of chocolaty happiness. How do I know this? (umm . . . maybe because I'm not supposed to be eating chocolate and am therefore obsessed with it, but that's not important right now. =D) Okay. So, the other day, Lucy and I are cruising through Target and we came upon a big ole Hershey's ...
Flan in my blood (or is it my cheeks?)
Over at Babalú today, I tell the story of how my amazing grandmother made perfect flan in a tin can, in a coal burning stove back in the 1930's. She should certainly have received a crown for that accomplishment. (it still blows my mind) To this day, my mom calls herself La Reina del Flan (The Queen of Flan). The art of flan-making is ...
This magic moment (or Wow. I really love my Christmas tree.)
We put our Christmas tree up over the weekend and I am completely enamored.Seriously. As Amy posted a few days ago, my kids all have small trees they put up in their bedrooms with their own ornaments (yes, artificial - I'm really over that whole vacuuming-pine-needles-for-months thing =D). I'm not being a cool mom or anything by letting them ...
Look at your life through Heaven’s eyes
I think of questions for him all the time. I remember things I want to discuss with him.And then I remember. He died.Eight years ago today. My dad passed away. And I cried orphan tears. Big, fat, splashing down my face tears. Papi was gone. And I still miss him. My kids, Amy and Adam cut together this video with photos and a little bit of ...
You say you want a Revolution?
My cousin Maria and I were inseparable as little girls in Cuba. Inseparable.We spent summers together on Varadero Beach in Cuba. We spent most weekends playing together as our families were very close. We celebrated every birthday together.We celebrated every Christmas. We were as close as sisters. Together. Celebrating.Inseparable. And then the ...
The Faces of MBFCF
Invitations just went out for our traditional Cuban Christmas Eve celebration. The faces belong to my big, fat Cuban family. Yep. The very same people who have been a most important part of my life for years and years. And yet, I think it's important to make everyone feel wanted and welcomed. Hence the personalized invitations. (I think I did ...
My own Advent-ure
Feliz Navidad everyone! It's me, Amy!If you've been reading recently, you know that Mom has been keeping us busy. We've been making all these memories TOGETHER. There's the whole Advent calendar thing and it's been a blast. But . . ."Put up personal trees. Decorate rooms. Play Christmas ...
The incredible shrinking woman
Digging through our old photos for the collage we're working on turned out to be a really fun and eye-opening experience. Here we are in front of the giant Christmas tree in Fashion Island, Newport Beach. 1996.Eric is holding Jonathan, who was not yet walking and I am holding three year old Lucy in her sweet little Converse high-tops. Adam ...
I create, therefore I am.
Okay, so here's how our morning goes: We all congregate around the next little advent box to be opened. Jonathan opens it, Lucy takes out the slip of paper and reads it. Questions follow. "What do you mean by: 'Find all the Santa and Christmas tree pictures'? They're for a Christmas collage. I'm so excited about that ...
