It's been quite a while since I've received a box of goodness from Melissa's Produce. So I was quite delighted when they offered to send me their latest box of fresh produce.My son-in-law, Marc immediately snagged the Hatch Chile's, which makes sense because he likes the uber-spicy stuff, but that's not important right now. So I stared long ...
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To Live Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure
•We kicked off our Darby Summer Movies last weekend with a delightful offering from my kids’ childhood: “Hook” with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. 🏴☠️🧚🏻♀️🧜🏼♀️✨⚔️•Introducing this classic to my grandboys made it fresh all over again. And all the twenty-somethings present did their own version of Time Traveling. They were thrilled to ...
Celebrating the First – Cafe La Llave Style
UPDATE 6/27/2022: WE HAVE A WINNER!! First, let me explain how I choose the winner. I take all the entries from each of the posts I produce: Blog, Instagram, & Facebook. Then I use the Random Number Generator to give me the number of the winner in each place. Then I narrow down the winners and again randomly choose a winner. It's as fair as ...
The Desires of My Heart – A Birthday Story
There’s a little park we go to often on weekends. 🪴 It’s hidden in a residential neighborhood in Laguna Beach and overlooks one of our favorite beaches, Crescent Bay. ⛱We’ve been going to Crescent Bay for years. In fact, when I was homeschooling Lucy & Jon, we were there at least once a week. It was always so great. 😊 If the waves were ...
What Do You Call Your Mami?
UPDATE 5/4/2022 - WINNER!! Congratulations to Arlene Villarin who won the "Mima" Mother's Day Box from Albisa Candles! Please send me your physical address so I can forward to them and get your fragrant goodies to you! Thanks to all who ...
Cafe La Llave Brings the Brunch Together
This post is sponsored by my favorite coffee people, Café La Llave. The opinions contained in this piece are all my very own. 9/21/2022 UPDATE: We have a winner! Congratulations to Tanya!Tanya says April 12, 2022 at 5:20 pm (Edit)I’ve been drinking coffee since I was about five. I drink about two cups a day. Real all the ...
Thoughts on Love
LoveIt always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. ~1 Corinthians 13:7He surprised me with a picnic on The Lake today. (Catered by @portosbakery) Made my heart happy.A year ago today, I had just regained consciousness.Love. “It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always ...
Three Sixty Five
On this date 1/28/2021 - one year ago - I went into the hospital with Covid19 and because I was having trouble breathing because of that whole pesky pneumonia thing.My family spent the next 36 days feverishly (pun intended) sending my health updates to Facebook and Instagram sending out updates and asking for prayer. Which, by the way, is what ...
The Lily – A Luza Story
The Lily: A Luza Story Years ago when my mom, Luza was still with us, she gifted me a beautiful lily. The same type that she carried in her wedding bouquet. ❤️💕❤️The lily faithfully grows every year and blooms on her birthday at the end of February. That’s just like her to give me a beautiful way to remember her. We put bricks down in this ...
Unleash the Joy!
As you may or may not know, I had a severe bout of COVID in January and was hospitalized for 36 days and intubated for 12 of them. I lost all my muscle tone and had to learn to eat, and swallow, and walk again. I was isolated from my family and stayed in touch via FaceTime. It was a difficult and humbling experience. I survived this ordeal ...
