Every single one of our trick-or-treating neighbors made a comment about the pumpkins jack-o-lanterns. We were the show-stopper house. Even more so than the guys down the street that had the inflatable Frankenstein and fake cobwebs. People were even posing their costumed kids on our brick path for photos and we were loving every ...
Archives for October 2008
Where you won’t find me on Halloween…
You won't find me in a costume on Halloween. I love everything about this day. (Well, no, that's technically not true. Not everything. I'm not at all into the uber-creepfest or trampy-dressing part of Halloween. I am all about achieving a High Cuteness Quotient, but that's not important right now.) And while I enjoy making ...
So accidentally cool . . .
Yes, of course it's me, Kikita. Who else would be accidental in their coolness? =D Now that I've turned 25, I swear something is different about me. I spent 25 years saying, "This is not my real life," because my life really is a novela and I always find myself in "movie-like" situations (Meaning: "If I saw this ...
“blog hijackery” (noun)
It's not fair. Every week, I have to pound out grammatically correct essays with perfect sentence structure. I have to analyze the nuances of punctuation and the proper; way to use; a semi-colon. (Oh yeah. This is Lucy. The other daughter. I'll come up with my own Cuban-sounding nickname another day.) But my MOM gets to write about ...
People are talking…
You know I sent out a few of my cookbooks earlier this month - to the MBFCF 2-Year Blogiversary Winners and of course, to my darling Desi Arnaz, Jr. (sigh). This is what the recipients had to say about My Big, Fat, Cuban Family Cookbook:Hi Marta, The cookbook arrived this morning! I am so excited! It is gorgeous. I love all the photos ...
The Ending to the Story
Kikita here. It all started with Adam and a random text message: "What's the name of the kid in The NeverEnding Story?" "Bastian," I replied automatically. "Why the nostalgia?" (Note: I didn't quite put it that way, but hey, I'm using poetic license here.) Adam was at the video store and he had seen the ...
Chronological dis-order
My mom (94) has a giant stack of scrapbooks. When I say giant, I mean, if you were to stack them all one on top of the other, they would measure at least 20 feet! Giant stack. In them she keeps greeting cards she's received over the years, matchbooks, letters, newspaper clippings, birth and wedding announcements, artwork done by the kids, voters ...
What I have in common with royalty
Background for the following:My mom's been reading a book on French, English, and Spanish monarchs. The other day she gave me this card with some apparently random information that she had painstakingly copied:Written inside in her own curly scroll is the following:It reads: "Kings who were sincerely loved by their people:Luis IX - ...
Gratuitous picture of my beautiful sisters
L to R: Me, Miriam, Ofie, Alina, & Helen. These are the women with whom I have shared rooms, clothes, makeup, and secrets.They are all who I wanted to be when I grew up. In this configuration, no matter how old I get, I will always be The Baby. (sigh) ...
The Double-Double deserves a standing ovation.
You know I love to cook. And you know I love my Cuban food. But you have to realize that I'm also just a Suburban Mom most days. And sometimes I do get supremely tired of schlepping (in Spanish, I think "arrastrando" would be the comparable word) my kids to classes and practices and friend-outings and all that. For someone who ...
