When you have as many people as I do in my big, fat, Cuban family, practically every day is a celebration. Weddings. Engagements. Birthdays. Weddings. Birthdays. Weddings and Birthdays. ad infinitum. And sadly, there are a few that I've missed or have fallen through the blog-cracks. (I feel bad. *sigh*) Today is my nephew, John-Paul's ...
Welcome To My Blog!
You have my permission…
This is for my niece, Nicole and her new husband, Isaac, who have been BUSY this last month. (It's not like she had an old husband or anything, I mean that he is new to her, as in they are newlyweds, or freshly married, or....oh, you know what I mean....) Here's some wordle word art I made for you:These two have had an awfully ...
Terms of Endearment
What do you call your Cuban mother? (or your mother of any nationality for that matter...) I started wondering about this earlier when I noticed that my sisters and I call my mom by different names. Her given name is Luz Aurora and her first precocious granddaughter, Annette, liked the sound of that and so christened her Luza. The name ...
Happy Arbor Mardi Gras?
Kikita posts again! You knew it was coming . . . Sheila still refuses to take down the tree. One of our devoted readers and Facebook friends, Billy, encouraged her madness and sent her decorations, New Orleans music, and King Cake! Obviously, "Tree Decorating" is a lovely excuse to have a party . . . So we had our own little Fat ...
Sapo verde eres tu
I don't know her very well, because, well, she lives in Miami and I'm here in So Cal. We've a little bit of face-time in the past year, but not enough to where I can say I know everything there is to know about her. But I do know this..... Not only did my nephew, Michael, fall in love with her, so has every single person in our big, ...
Ninety-five.
She still dyes her hair and wears makeup every day.She only wears her glasses for reading because she's a little vain about her looks.She remembers everyone's birthday.If you're sick, she'll call you every day until you report that you are well.She saves every card from every birthday, Mother's Day and Christmas and works ...
Minivans and Mariachis. Nicole marries Isaac. Helen was there.
While I was up to my eyeballs in Oompa-Loompas on the 7th of February, my niece, Nicole was getting married to Isaac. Obviously we were unable to attend, but my other niece, Helen,was there. The wedding was held over the border in Ensenada, Mexico which made it a "Destination Wedding." I'm sooo sad that we missed ...
Be it ever so humble…
Thanks to all of you who participated in the drawing for the mugs:I took all of your names and plugged them into a list at RANDOM.org and the following names/comments popped up: 1) Marti, I think I have been reading MBFCF for about two years. Actually, it's been longer that that. Wow - in the cyberworld, that's probably the equivalent ...
“Un sanwiché Cubano, por favor.”
It's lunchtime and you're in a Cuban restaurant. (I wish. *sigh*) You think to yourself, "Self, I don't want anything too big. Maybe I'll just have a sandwich." So you peruse the menu of said Cuban restaurant and find a few noteworthy sandwiches that you can choose from: There's the classic Pan con Lechón or ...
I *heart* blogging or $8.95 well-spent
I've been blogging for about 2 1/2 years now.When I first started it was kind of a dirty-little-secret. I just didn't know how to explain it. So I didn't. But I know I was constantly looking for stories to tell. Maybe it was an age thing? Or an untapped (for me) creative outlet? I just know that as a ...
