I'm a giver. I give. (You could possibly call me a bit co-dependent, but that's not important right now.) Anyway, back to giving. I'm giving away my personal label designs for Creme de Vie (recipe here) and for Homemade Dulce de Leche (recipe here.) Here's the Crema de Vie ~ Feliz Navidad! Label.And this one is in case ...
Archives for December 2010
Curses! Foiled Again!
**The following post of daring ingenuity and all-around cleverness has been brought to you by the one and only Kikita. I've been temping.'Nuff said. Actually, there's so much more to say.I've done temp work before. I've worked all kinds of places. In fact, there was even a time when I worked as a "Staffing Agent" ...
The Luza Gift
As you know, we Cubans celebrate Noche Buena on December the 24th. In my family, December the 25th, or Christmas Day is the day we each celebrate with our individual families. Usually, my oldest sister, Ofelia will take Luza (my 96 year old mom) with her to enjoy Christmas morning with her grandkids (my mom's great-grands). Besides the ...
“Making Christmas?” or “Resolviendo”?
Our home is small. You could say it's freakishly small, but I prefer to call it cottage-like. (That makes it sound so much cuter.) So hosting my big, fat, Cuban family for holidays is often a challenge. We have to move furniture around to make room for everyone. Can I just add right here that even though it's kind of a challenge, ...
The Christmas Card Photo Shoot of 2010
It will go down in family history as The Year We Hauled the Red Chair Down to the Park. Here's how the whole thing went down: Eric and I went on a pre-Thanksgiving cruise (on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, which I still have to write about, but that's not important right now). That very same (pre-Thanksgiving) weekend, my son, ...
Lighting the Menorah and Spinning the Dreidel
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the parties and celebrating with friends. What's different is that not all of our friends do Christmas Trees and Nochebuena. Tonight, my son will be wearing a yarmulke and my daughter will help light the menorah.There will be a wonderful matzoh-ball soup made by a Genuine Jewish ...
Hello, December.
I love going to new places and trying new things. I also love going to old places and doing thing I've done before, but that's not important right now. ;-) When December rolls around, I always look forward to having holiday-type experiences. Sometimes those include plays or movies or Disney Magic. But yesterday, I had the happy privilege ...
Fambook – like Facebook….but not…
My big, fat, Cuban family is made up of a ton of people. As you can probably imagine, we ditched having every single family member buying Christmas gifts for every other person a long time ago. The only exemption to this rule is my mom. Everyone buys her a little something. We tried drawing names, but after a couple of years, we ran out of ideas ...
