Everywhere you hear about and see the flashbacks, the nostalgia, the reminiscing about the past year. Well, today I look back on this blogging year and some of my favorite posts. (Yes, I do have favorite posts and lots of others that make me wring my hands and wonder why I do this in the first place, but that's not important right ...
Archives for December 2009
Fourteen.
14 years ago today my doctor spoke those magical words, "it's a boy." And asked The Question: "What will you be naming him?" Me: "Jonathan Edward Darby." Jonathan after his paternal grandfather, John. (Eric's dad.) Plus it means something. It means God's gift. Or God is gracious to give. So God, ...
The EPIC Mr. Don’t Touch the Banana
The following post was written by Kikita, whose appreciation for bananas has led to endless laughter and entertainment. I can't tell you where or how it all started, but it started. I can only guess it happened on facebook because that's where most things happen these days.Let me be clear about something . . . I am not particularly fond ...
An Apple A Day
So apparently I was very, very good this year. Look what Santa brought me. ;-)Which means I had to haul my big, old Mac G5 tower to the Apple store to have them migrate all my stuff from the old Mac to the new Mac. This means that I am COMPUTER-LESS for the next few days while the migration happens. Which leaves me doing ridiculous things to pass ...
Measuring Life
This is Kikita here to wish you all a Merry Christmas! As I'm sure most of you know by now, every year I cut together a family Christmas video. This year marked the 10 year anniversary of this tradition so I knew I had to really step things up. When looking back on all the things that happened in our family over the past year the re-occurring theme ...
We say “Merry Christmas”
Merry Christmas! We like to say Merry Christmas. And so we say it. Often. In stores, and to passersby. "Merry Christmas!" I exclaim. They look a little shocked most times. And shyly offer it back (while surreptitiously looking over their shoulder): "Merry Christmas." In Spanish, of course, it's Feliz Navidad. And we ...
Let the Noche Buena Preparations Begin!
It's time to get ready for Noche Buena at the Darbys! I wish you could all come. It's going to be such a fabulous event! We've been up to our eyeballs in party preparations and I'm totally excited. This year we are hosting my big, fat, Cuban family. And our house is small. Freakishly small when I think of the logistics ...
Making believe.
{Oops! TypePad techno mix-up.. Here's the original Believe post....} Isn't it gorgeous? I sit and stare at it up on my hutch and I feel both peaceful and inspired. And I remember that I BELIEVE. I believe in Santa Claus and I believe in Christmas miracles. I do. I was once a struggling, working single parent with two small children and ...
Making it up as I go…
When I was about Jonathan's age (soon to be 14) the place to see movies was at the dome. The Cinerama Dome. It was an amazing architectural feat. The screen swept across a geodesic dome and you'd have to turn your head to see the action on the gigantic screen on the other side. It was THE theater to go to for The Ultimate Movie-Watching ...
Lattes for you!
Thanks to everyone who left comments told their latte stories. The very cool got milk? giveaway goes to: Michele caridad said... Totally should have been there as a room full of flavored and perfectly prepared cafe con leche is defenitely my version of heaven! And side note... Everytime I think of cafe con leche I think of my nephews ...
Whole lotta latte
Kikita here! Last week, Mami and I stumbled into a weird and wonderful world.(Ok, we didn't really stumble, we were invited and we took Lucy & Katie with us, but that's not important right now.) A land of milk and honey. (Ok, mostly milk and I don't think there was any honey at all, but that is not important right now ...
Getting the Party Started
The beginning of December (last week) always signals the countdown to Christmas. And as I've said before, we don't usually decorate our house or even put up a tree until closer to Christmas. (Yes, ours is the "dark house" in the neighborhood for most of the month, but that's not important right now.) But just because we ...
All Desi. All the time.
So we went to Vegas and Boulder City the week before Thanksgiving to see the fabulous Tormé Sings Tormé show. It was absolutely delicious and satisfying in every way. First of all Steve March Tormé's tribute to his incredibly talented dad (Mel Tormé) was both exhilarating to watch and yet tugged at the heartstrings as he sang while ...
He Danced With Me
The following post has been brought to you by the lovely and talented (and oh-so-humble) Kikita. About 10 years ago, when I was an adorable teenager who didn't remember much of the Spanish she'd spoken as a child, I saw the movie "Dance with Me." It was magical. There was a beautiful Puerto Rican guy (Chayanne) who was playing ...
