My mom (94) has a giant stack of scrapbooks. When I say giant, I mean, if you were to stack them all one on top of the other, they would measure at least 20 feet! Giant stack. In them she keeps greeting cards she's received over the years, matchbooks, letters, newspaper clippings, birth and wedding announcements, artwork done by the kids, voters ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
What I have in common with royalty
Background for the following:My mom's been reading a book on French, English, and Spanish monarchs. The other day she gave me this card with some apparently random information that she had painstakingly copied:Written inside in her own curly scroll is the following:It reads: "Kings who were sincerely loved by their people:Luis IX - ...
Crunch time
We voted today. Yep, we are mail-in voters. At least we are now. Based on the long lines and the hours it took two years ago, even though my daughter and I had an absolute blast waiting in line, it's not an experience I'm anxious to revisit. This is a new thing for us so we sat down reverently and filled out our ballots ...
Celebrating Summer
We So Cal people don't really "do" weather. We just don't know how. When the weather cools a bit, (which it really hasn't considering we are about a month into Fall, but that's not important right now) we pull out socks to wear with our flip-flops and exclaim "Fall is here!" (you think I'm kidding, ...
Marta Darby’s Day Off
Can you guess where we were today?You know, just because we homeschool, doesn't mean we don't ditch sometimes. ;-) Okay, the truth is that Lucy had PSAT Testing and Jonathan had his Literature and American History classes. They've both been working really hard and they both were through at noon and well, it's ...
Bilingual brain fart
I like to own movies that I know I'll watch over and over. We have quite the extensive video/dvd library. Seriously, how else could we play the Kevin Bacon Game?? ;-)And as you already know, I'm really easily entertained. So, I'm cruising through Target the other day and I found this dvd on sale:Disney does ...
Luza & the Baseball Player
One of my nephews, Raphael (aka "Rafa") was celebrating his 40th birthday this weekend. (Hi Rafa! Happy Birthday!!) His beautiful wife, Lisa threw him an absolutely fabulous birthday bash. Of course, all his friends were in attendance, as well as his big, fat, Cuban family and his big, fat, Jewish family. (I should probably ...
Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into these situations…
I do a lot of stuff. I'm not saying that in a bragging way. It's just the nature of the way my life is structured. And I'm grateful that I have the time (and the fabulous husband who indulges me) to do all the things I do. Usually you'll find me here at home in my Suburban Cuban-American Bubble, cooking Cuban ...
Documented proof
Remember at the beginning of the year when I told you I was going to be taking a picture every day this year? I'm still doing it. Every single day.At least one picture. (Ooh! So proud of myself!)And no, I'm not delusional enough to think that I'm any kind of great photographer. But armed with my really awesome camera, I can ...
Speaking of Cuban heart-throbs…
Before there was Andy.... (insert heart flutter here) There was Desi... (sigh)That's right. Desi Arnaz Jr. (be still my foolish heart...) Proud and handsome descendant of Cuban Royalty, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball (let's have a moment of reverent silence here - thank you). MY Desi. (heavy sigh) My First True Love. ...
