Noche Buena.There were 32 adults and 6 kids under the age of six at the party. It was LOUD. As only a house full of Cubans can get. We all talk at the same time and try to make ourselves heard. Somehow we manage to keep track of all the conversations, even with all the multiple levels of voices. There was much laughter and chaos. The lovely kind ...
Celebrate
I'm Cuban. I throw lots of parties. You shouldn't be surprised.
Bionic Women
What would I do without my helpers?Not only was our road trip to Portos a great success, but I got to spend the morning clowning with my girls. They are both so amazing. They have shopped and wrapped and filmed and edited and baked and cooked and put up with me through all of our preparations. All with extraordinary grace and poise. They haven't ...
Salud!
I don't know anyone who truly likes egg nog.And then they try our Cuban Egg Nog and all perception changes. We call it Creme de Vie. ("creme" rhymes with Auntie M. and "vie" rhymes with More For Me! =D) Rather than making cookies for gifts, we make and "package" the Creme de Vie. (we also keep a whole lot for ...
Enough is Too Much!
Our invitations for Noche Buena just went out. I'm quite proud of them. I wish I could invite you all, but I can't. This year we're not hosting this event at our house. We agreed that my nephew's home is more spacious and will accommodate the 40+ people who will be attending. This doesn't mean I'm off the hook, though.As you can see, I still ...
Hammer Time
DISCLAIMER: The following post will probably only make sense to Cuban-Americans (and probably only to my immediate family). Read at your own risk. =D I am the youngest of six. Four older sisters and one brother. One of the beauties of being a Cuban exile, is living and growing up around people who are bilingual. It was always a party (it still is)! ...
Language Lesson
Cucufate. n. (koo-koo-fah-teh)1. To confuse things in such a way as to cause confusion all around you. 2. a screw-up. We have been using this term idiomatically in my family as far back as I can remember.We have taken to calling everything we do a Cucufate (big screw-up). This might be one of those things that is very specifically Cuban. A few ...
No more sombreros for Mami, thanks.
There are two kinds of people in this world:Those who look good in hats And the rest of us.I was still massaging my bruised ego from The Trampoline Debacle yesterday. And I had some other problems with orders and customers that put me in a blue funk. So, Amy took me to dinner at Disneyland to cheer me up. We watched fireworks and it ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like…
I have been "tagged" by my friend, Kristen with the "Holiday Edition of: Getting to Know Your Friends." As opposed to other versions, I find this one fascinating. Mostly because the questions are about favorite Christmas traditions. It seems everyone I know is fiercely dedicated to their own traditions and I love that ...
We go together…
Working on that Christmas video and sorting through my pictures gives me a total "Now and Then" perspective. Because I'm a scrapbooker, I write my journaling stories more about relationships, than I do events. Although, I'm all about chronicling events, too. I love seeing relationships evolve in my photos. I love documenting ...
Y 2 Que?
In 1979, after President Jimmy Carter opened up travel between the U.S. & Cuba, I had a cousin go to Cuba to visit family.She brought back the most amazing treasure for us: A suitcase full of our family pictures. This is going to sound odd to some, but I was 24 years old and had never, before that moment, seen baby pictures of myself. ...
