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 ...
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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 ...
Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into these situations…
I do a lot of stuff. I'm not saying that in a bragging way. It's just the nature of the way my life is structured. And I'm grateful that I have the time (and the fabulous husband who indulges me) to do all the things I do. Usually you'll find me here at home in my Suburban Cuban-American Bubble, cooking Cuban ...
Guilty pleasure
We saw the following movie trailer recently and it looked cute and pretty funny. After all, it's a Disney film and the trailer cracked me up...Seriously, I was totally laughing out loud and thinking okay, maybe we'll see the film. Or not. In fact, I wasn't really tempted, until I read a synopsis that included the following: "A ...
Documented proof
Remember at the beginning of the year when I told you I was going to be taking a picture every day this year? I'm still doing it. Every single day.At least one picture. (Ooh! So proud of myself!)And no, I'm not delusional enough to think that I'm any kind of great photographer. But armed with my really awesome camera, I can ...
Speaking of Cuban heart-throbs…
Before there was Andy.... (insert heart flutter here) There was Desi... (sigh)That's right. Desi Arnaz Jr. (be still my foolish heart...) Proud and handsome descendant of Cuban Royalty, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball (let's have a moment of reverent silence here - thank you). MY Desi. (heavy sigh) My First True Love. ...
The envelope please…
First, I want to thank all of you who left (such nice!!) comments and participated in The My Big, Fat, Cuban Family Two Year Blogiversary Giveaway of '08 (I think that name gives this silly contest more gravitas, but that's not important right now). You are the reason I do what I do and I'm grateful for your feedback. ...
