So, I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'll be here for a few days. Where will I be spending my time, you ask? I'll be in the BETTY CROCKER KITCHENS!!! (<--Yes, that was a noisy burst of nerdy enthusiasm.) I'll be Baking With Betty. (Along with a group of bloggers also invited by General Mills, but that's not important right ...
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Seeing worlds in a grain of sand…
As you know, my childhood summers always involved the beach somehow. From the perfection that is Varadero to the surf in Santa Monica, every summer that I can recall was spent at the beach. Of the many happy beach memories I have, however, one trumps them all. I still remember the magical moment when my dad filled my plastic bucket with the ...
Guest Contributor – that makes me sound taller, right? ;-)
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I sometimes find myself in various corners of the world-wide-web. Today I have the distinct pleasure of being a Guest Contributor (<--doesn't that make me sound taller?) over at the wonderful Mommy Maestra site. Monica is doing a phenomenal job of not only homeschooling her own children bilingually, ...
She’s a Grand Old Flag
So, we're on our Beach Vacation. That's code for Marta-is-doing-nothing-but-eating-and-sitting-in-the-sun-thankyouverymuch. ;-) Our home away from home is exactly 238 steps from the sand and we've been enjoying every minute of sunshine and surf and major do-nothingness. But the beach here at Del Mar is a bit quirky. First of ...
Link Love
I've been blogging here at MBFCF for almost four years (Wow! That's like high school!) now. I love blogging as an a creative outlet. Not only because it's my blog and I can write pretty much whatever I want, but also because I get feedback. And for the most part, that feedback is positive, which makes me happy. I enjoy blogging ...
Seventeen
She is completely present when she speaks to you. That is, unless she's spacing out. She has lots of great ideas. But isn't always willing to share them. She is beautifully feminine. And yet, she holds her own with the big boys. She wants to do everything, go everywhere, experience it all! Except for when she just wants to be left alone, ...
Mrs. Eric Darby
I have had the happy privilege of being Mrs. Eric Darby for the past 18 years now. We got married on August 8th, 1992. Some of our anniversary celebrations have been simple. I cook, the kids toast us, we kiss. A good time was had by all. On a few of our anniversaries we've managed to escape for a weekend. This year, we planned our vacation to ...
Cafecito print – a winner.
Wow. I had no idea so many of you MBFCF readers were such coffee snobs! (I mean that in the best way possible, of course.) Seriously, go back and read the comments on the Of Jedi and Cafecitos post. You'll be blown away by the many ways there are to "do" coffee. You know I could only choose one winner which always makes me a ...
Of Jedi and Cafecitos – a Giveaway
So, a few weeks ago I'm cruising through my Facebook page and I left a comment on one of my daughter's (Amy Kikita) posts. I think she was complaining that she needed a late afternoon cafecito. (I think that's what it was, because she's always saying that in the late afternoon, but that's not important right now.) My ...
Blog Talk
As far back as I can remember I have kept a journal or a diary of some sort. In the years before blogging, I would faithfully recap the mundane events of my uneventful life, my hopes, my fears, and maybe a little wishful thinking. Because my personal journals were never intended for public consumption, I felt free to write whatever I felt without ...
