We put our Christmas tree up over the weekend and I am completely enamored.Seriously. As Amy posted a few days ago, my kids all have small trees they put up in their bedrooms with their own ornaments (yes, artificial - I'm really over that whole vacuuming-pine-needles-for-months thing =D). I'm not being a cool mom or anything by letting them ...
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Look at your life through Heaven’s eyes
I think of questions for him all the time. I remember things I want to discuss with him.And then I remember. He died.Eight years ago today. My dad passed away. And I cried orphan tears. Big, fat, splashing down my face tears. Papi was gone. And I still miss him. My kids, Amy and Adam cut together this video with photos and a little bit of ...
You say you want a Revolution?
My cousin Maria and I were inseparable as little girls in Cuba. Inseparable.We spent summers together on Varadero Beach in Cuba. We spent most weekends playing together as our families were very close. We celebrated every birthday together.We celebrated every Christmas. We were as close as sisters. Together. Celebrating.Inseparable. And then the ...
The Faces of MBFCF
Invitations just went out for our traditional Cuban Christmas Eve celebration. The faces belong to my big, fat Cuban family. Yep. The very same people who have been a most important part of my life for years and years. And yet, I think it's important to make everyone feel wanted and welcomed. Hence the personalized invitations. (I think I did ...
My own Advent-ure
Feliz Navidad everyone! It's me, Amy!If you've been reading recently, you know that Mom has been keeping us busy. We've been making all these memories TOGETHER. There's the whole Advent calendar thing and it's been a blast. But . . ."Put up personal trees. Decorate rooms. Play Christmas ...
The incredible shrinking woman
Digging through our old photos for the collage we're working on turned out to be a really fun and eye-opening experience. Here we are in front of the giant Christmas tree in Fashion Island, Newport Beach. 1996.Eric is holding Jonathan, who was not yet walking and I am holding three year old Lucy in her sweet little Converse high-tops. Adam ...
I create, therefore I am.
Okay, so here's how our morning goes: We all congregate around the next little advent box to be opened. Jonathan opens it, Lucy takes out the slip of paper and reads it. Questions follow. "What do you mean by: 'Find all the Santa and Christmas tree pictures'? They're for a Christmas collage. I'm so excited about that ...
Counting the days . . . or making the days count?
Today's advent activity:Churros, Hot Chocolate and The Grinch. I cannot even tell you how cool this whole calendar thing has been. There's already so much anticipation! They've already established rules: 1) They open each box together. 2) No peeking ahead. 3) They immediately tell Amy and Adam what the activity will be and ask them to join ...
Pancakes at midnight.
As we started opening advent boxes with my carefully planned suggestions, I realized that I have some very wonderful, if more spontaneous, memories of family time. I guess because of the pace of our life I feel compelled to be more deliberate in creating fun memories together. But something happened the other night, that wasn't exactly ...
Being present
I'm working on being particularly present this holiday season. What I mean by that is that I don't want to get so caught up in making Christmas that I completely miss it and fall down exhausted on the twenty-fifth glad the thing is over. Okay, so I say that every year, but really, my intentions are sincere. ;-) So I went over to the brand ...
