We were all dressed up that day. It was the day of Heather's wedding. "Perfect Christmas card photo op!" (at least that's what I thought. . .) We had tons of pictures taken that day, all dressed up and shiny and smiling pretty, but this is my very favorite. The one where Eric extends the camera with his left hand and we all ...
Celebrate
I'm Cuban. I throw lots of parties. You shouldn't be surprised.
A Wonderful Christmastime
One week til Christmas and this right here is the very best part of it all for me: The preparations. The houseful of busy Christmas preparations. The crossing stuff off lists. The anticipation of the happy and surprised looks. Christmas music playing and busy people in the house.The girls call out for us to look at a ...
Yes, that’s Andy Garcia in our family home movie. =D
It's a week before Christmas and I find this taped to my studio door. What on earth. . .? Oh yes, it's crunch time. You see we (Amy, Lucy and I) make a Christmas film every year. We take all our home movies and set them to music and cut the clips together and give it a fun title and ta-da! it becomes a family keepsake. Okay, so ...
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles
Hershey's Chocolate is celebrating 100 years of chocolaty happiness. How do I know this? (umm . . . maybe because I'm not supposed to be eating chocolate and am therefore obsessed with it, but that's not important right now. =D) Okay. So, the other day, Lucy and I are cruising through Target and we came upon a big ole Hershey's ...
This magic moment (or Wow. I really love my Christmas tree.)
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 ...
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 ...
Who exactly is “they?”
The cousins range in ages from seventeen to forty-two. After Thanksgiving dinner last week:The cousins didn't want to leave, so they didn't want to leave.The cousins wanted to watch a movie, so they wanted to watch a movie.The cousins wanted to try the Creme de Vie, so they wanted to try the Creme de Vie.The cousins wanted to spend the night, so ...
Crunch Top Applie Pie Recipe: It’s as Cuban-American as “Mami, Pastel de Manzana, y la Bandera” ;-)
I know you were wondering what we did with all those wounded apples from Thanksgiving. Well, wonder no more. The Galas (those are the red and yellow ones) went to my mom's and she reported that they are now two jars of delicious homemade applesauce. The Granny Smiths (the green ones) went into a pie. A good ole homemade Crunch Top ...
What’s new?
Sometimes I'm really aware of where my creative leanings come from. I see a picture in a magazine, I notice the colors in a room, or I hear a song on the radio, all of which get me thinking and then sketching and then I find myself pushing to create something. So, here comes Thanksgiving and I'm not feeling particularly creative when ...
