Education at home is not me filling my children's heads with facts as much as it is me "teaching" them how to learn.My educational goals for them have more to do with getting them to love learning as opposed to filling their heads with facts they can parrot back to me immediately but not retain in the long run. Today we visited the ...
Welcome To My Blog!
Where else would a Cuban be on Mother’s Day?
Happy Mother's Day! We began our day with a visit to Arlington Cemetery and some of the kids in our group (congratulations, Jessica!) got to participate in the Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.So I'm moved and emotional and in a fragile and contemplative mood as we slowly walk back to our tour bus. There are many ...
National Treasures
We're having such an amazing time touring Washington DC, but we have. not. stopped.Today we visited: - The World War II Memorial. That deserves an entire post of its own. - The White House Tour (which totally made me want to design my own china but that's not important right now). =D - the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. A massive ...
Who should be thanking whom?
In our Cuban culture and our family specifically, Mother's Day is like a High Holy Day. For the most part, we revere our mothers to the point of veneration. This is an important day for the family to be together. Mothers, after all, are the backbone of the family. And yet, as my own children came along, I never thought of Mother's Day as ...
A-maze-ing
We landed in Norfolk, Virginia yesterday around 5 pm and hit the ground running with the first of many historical tours. After an entire day flying from left to right (=D) and a quick dinner we took an evening tour (by lantern and candlelight. Wow! Just wow.) of Colonial Williamsburg. We went back today for another handful of tours and I completely ...
Comfort Zone
In 1982 my parents decided they wanted to go to Europe. My sister Alina and I volunteered to chaperone. =)Going to "the continent" for the first time meant that the Verdes family had to go in style so my mom insisted that we get decked out - that meant dresses, suits, high heels, pantyhose (Pantyhose!) - for an 8 hour flight across the ...
Everything’s amazing
I am trying not to complain.After all, I know I lead a charmed life. =D So, as I prepare for our trip to THE CAPITAL OF OUR NATION, I am trying to remember to be thankful.Complaining is just too easy. It's the gratitude part that is tricky. So I will have a big smile on my face today and practice gratitude. =D Happy Trails! ...
“Bright” is the new black
I am doing all the usual things I do on a daily basis.But today I'm also preparing for our Washington D.C. & New York trip. We leave the day after tomorrow and I'll be mobile blogging while there, but that's not important right now. We are going with our homeschool group and are pretty excited. Well, the kids are ...
Oh, the places we went . . .
It is time for the true story of what happened last week.I, Kikita, would like to apologize for my tardiness in explanation, but (as you can see) I've been rather busy DOING things so WRITING about them is not the highest priority. But I digress . . . You already have an idea of what Sheila and I were up to because Mami wasn't too far off ...
What goes around…
I want a new phone. It’s totally a pie-in-the-sky daydream at this point. I have a perfectly capable and lovely Verizon LG that does everything I want it to do. It's just that I saw a brand new one that looks better. *sigh* So, while I was driving around feeling sorry for my poor over-privileged, super-entitled self, (I know. Shut up.) ...
