I've been keeping up pretty nicely with that whole taking one picture every day project. Actually, I love having my camera with me 24/7. In fact, I have it with me so much it's almost like a family member now. We're all seated at the dinner table, and one of the kids asks:"Where's your camera?" And it's weird when you blog (like I ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
Mi cama es su cama – NOT!
I got new bedding stuff for our room. It looks regal, yet jungly and our bed looks like the King it is with all the new stuff. (FYI - I got it online at Target) I don't know, but there's something about it being a new year that makes me want everything to be new. And it also makes me want to travel. New year = new ...
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes
I take photos every day. Every day.Okay, maybe not every single day. But most days. ;-) I took photos every single day of December, and it was pretty effortless for me because my camera was attached to me like an unusual black appendage growing out of my forehead. But this year, I'm determined to take a photo a day to document my year ...
“Cui bono?”*
Remember my cool (and at this point) pristine advent calendar? Here's what it looked like at the end of December:How this will translate to my Christmas 2007 scrapbook . . . I took photos of the things we did each day, printed one photo and just pinned them up on the board. Or sometimes there were just ticket stubs, or an invitation ...
Midnight Madness
DISCLAIMER: In order for this post to make any sense, you might want to review my explanation of what Cubans do at midnight on New Year's Eve. We thought it was going to be a quiet New Year's Eve. Helen (my niece) invited us over to play games and eat junk and wait for midnight. The kids, Daisy (7) and Ben (2) probably were not going to ...
The Knives.
My mom makes these famously Cuban authoritarian pronouncements.When she says something, it is with an air of authority that will not tolerate any argument.Of course, the way she says it immediately makes me question its validity, but since I was raised in a superstitious Cuban home, there is a small residue of what-if-it's-really-true? somewhere in ...
Happy New Year!
It's a new year. And while I don't actually make resolutions, I always feel like the new year is a new beginning.A blank page.A do-over.I always have that thing in me that wants to do more, act nicer, learn things. I always want to be a little better.I think it every time.Every new year.Maybe it's because I'm Cuban.And we are a perpetually hopeful ...
New Year’s Mystery
December 31st, 1939. Havana, Cuba. That was the date Rodolfo Verdés made Luz Perez-Puelles his bride. I love this picture of my parents. It was probably taken a few years after their wedding and of course, it was totally posed, but seriously, he always held her in such high esteem. And she thought he looked just like Errol Flynn. (isn't ...
Grueling workout schedule . . .
The majority of my time for the past few days has been spent like this: Saturday (celebrating with Eric's lovely family):Sunday (our yearly trip to Porto's to pick up tamales, croquetas and sweet stuff):Monday (celebrating Noche Buena with my big, fat Cuban family):Tuesday morning (celebrating Christmas at our house):Tuesday evening ...
Feliz Navidad
Me: Can you guys do a 30-second Noche Buena commercial spot? Them: Umm. . . Duh! Watch this . . .I want to wish all of you my very faithful blog visitors (whom I totally consider my Big, Fat, Extended Cuban-Cyberspace Family, because I'm kind of a dork like that =D) a very, very Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año ...
