Today's the wedding day. We've been anxiously awaiting this chance to have a big, fat, Cuban family wedding in Miami. Today is that day. People, we're out of our skin excited! To be together, to be a family, to welcome more family, to poke fun at each other, to laugh together, to dance together, to tell jokes and family stories. To celebrate being ...
Archives for July 2008
La Que Manda
Kikita here. And no, I'm no longer alone. And no, it's no longer raining. Mami arrived late last night and she brought the sun with her. She had the smoothest flight ever (one of the flight attendants was studying to be a chiropractor so they offered her a free neck massage!). We woke up to sunshine - something I haven't ...
Code Red
Prepare yourself South Florida..... The last few days have been a flurry of texts and phone calls between my mom and my sisters and my cousins and my nieces and myself.My big, fat, Cuban family is preparing to invade Miami. (Ay Dios mio!) Michael and Kimberly are getting married on Friday. (Yay!) And because of the nature of weddings and all the ...
Sometimes it’s hard to be me . . .
The "Kikita's Alone in Florida" saga continues . . . After the Chinese food debacle (ok, so I should have known better, but I'd been traveling all day and I was tired), I decided my first order of business should be to venture out and find the nearest grocery store, preferably Publix. This choice came primarily because after dinner last night ...
What do you call your Abuela?
The span in age between me and my oldest sister, Ofie, is about fifteen years. Which means she was married and had her first child, Annette, by the time I was nine. Which means that at that point in my young life, my mother, Luz, became a grandmother."La Abuela!" She had waited so long to finally hear those words. She could barely wait until ...
Flip-flop. ;-)
Okay, so we're on our way to the beach on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon in So Cal. As we're getting onto The Toll Road we spot DOZENS of police officers on motorcycles with their lights all flashing, and behind them there were about four or five patrol cars, with their lights flashing too. In front of this dizzyingly dramatic display of ...
Guess who’s in Miami!?!
Hello my party people! Kikita here. And when I say "here" I mean in MIAMI!! Luckily I made it just in time for thunderstorms . . . (which makes landing REALLY fun) :-) This is what my first night consisted of:Yes, I committed the major faux-paux and ate Chinese Take-Out, don't tell Mami! Email me, call me, let's get together, I'm here! :-) ...
“Felicidades, Abuela!” (state your name)
I've written before about how my family spent summers in Varadero Beach in pre-castro Cuba.My grandmother's birthday was in late June so we would be out of Havana and not with her to celebrate. So we would call.... It seems like such a simple thing, making a phone call from Varadero to Havana, but it was quite an elaborate operation because the ...
When in Rome…
It was a TOGA party we had last night for Adam's birthday.(And yes, we did a sing along - to Disney's Hercules)I dressed in a toga.I cooked dinner in my toga.I became quite attached to my toga.They're very comfortable and I think I look spectacular in RED. Heck, this might turn out to be our Christmas card picture this year.... (that wouldn't ...
Nuclear power
When Adam was a toddler, he picked up the nickname "Adam Bomb."He was kind of a big, cuddly, brute of a toddler and the name fit.He was an amazing phenomenon....just like the atom.If atoms are so small, I've often wondered, how can they release the kind of energy needed to create a nuclear explosion?I wondered the same thing as I was attempting to ...
