We voted today. Yep, we are mail-in voters. At least we are now. Based on the long lines and the hours it took two years ago, even though my daughter and I had an absolute blast waiting in line, it's not an experience I'm anxious to revisit. This is a new thing for us so we sat down reverently and filled out our ballots ...
Archives for October 2008
Celebrating Summer
We So Cal people don't really "do" weather. We just don't know how. When the weather cools a bit, (which it really hasn't considering we are about a month into Fall, but that's not important right now) we pull out socks to wear with our flip-flops and exclaim "Fall is here!" (you think I'm kidding, ...
So much to do…
I have a big, long list of things to do.And I have been so busy all week that I thought I'd just wait for Saturday to tackle all the things left undone. Yes, but am I actually doing any of the tasks on my list?Although, I have to say, that being Cuban, I'm not really sure I know how to lollygag, but that's not important right now. ...
A colorful birthday riddle
If your name is NANCY and you are my sweet, WONDERFUL and caring Mother-in-Law, and this October day is your Happy Birthday, then this message is for YOU! =D A special GIFT is on its way too: My Big, Fat, C... A celebration of C... By Marta M. DarbyBook Preview ...
The “cowbell” of my Cuban American Kitchen
If there is one thing I can never get enough of when I'm baking something, it's guava paste. (You were going to guess that too, weren't you?) Gotta have more GUAVA! ** If you're not Cuban, you're probably not feeling it and that's O-KAY. I really don't get Jell-O, so we're probably even there. ;-) But I ...
Marta Darby’s Day Off
Can you guess where we were today?You know, just because we homeschool, doesn't mean we don't ditch sometimes. ;-) Okay, the truth is that Lucy had PSAT Testing and Jonathan had his Literature and American History classes. They've both been working really hard and they both were through at noon and well, it's ...
Bilingual brain fart
I like to own movies that I know I'll watch over and over. We have quite the extensive video/dvd library. Seriously, how else could we play the Kevin Bacon Game?? ;-)And as you already know, I'm really easily entertained. So, I'm cruising through Target the other day and I found this dvd on sale:Disney does ...
Making it look easy
For the past few weeks, Amy Kikita and I have been meeting regularly to work on a video/slideshow. In this case, it was to honor my nephew, Rafa, who just turned 40. When you see the final project, you realize there's more art than science to cutting together a good film. It is sweet and poignant and cute and funny. The song she ...
Luza & the Baseball Player
One of my nephews, Raphael (aka "Rafa") was celebrating his 40th birthday this weekend. (Hi Rafa! Happy Birthday!!) His beautiful wife, Lisa threw him an absolutely fabulous birthday bash. Of course, all his friends were in attendance, as well as his big, fat, Cuban family and his big, fat, Jewish family. (I should probably ...
It’s about TIME
Much to my Jonathan's great sadness, I read somewhere that Bill Gates only lets his kids play video games for about forty-five minutes a day. And because even though we homeschool, I don't want my kids to grow up to be total Social Retards, (I know you were thinking it!) we have Gaming Rules. So the rules state that they can spend ...
