This day in history...Thursday, June 16th, 1983. This is what I looked like that morning. 28 years old, massively pregnant and sporting a mullety-shag do. (don't judge me.) Standing over my beautifully just-finished pink and blue bassinet. (This was back in the pre-historic ...
My Kids
To my little Drama Queen…
(This is the ad that's going in the Bye Bye Birdie program. I crack myself up. =D) ...
Memorial Day
Eric and I just recently returned from taking our teenage kids, Lucy and Jonathan on a trip to Washington D.C. We saw and learned so much that we were at times overwhelmed with the amount of information coming our way. We’re still working on writing about and documenting our trip, but the events of one particular day have been difficult to ...
Today
Jonathan was only five years old when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occured in 2001. We didn't have tv then either and chose not to tell him or Lucy (who was 8) about the attacks. We would tell them later, we decided. When they were older and we could better explain the presence of evil in our world. There would come a day we'd recall the ...
Who should be thanking whom?
In our Cuban culture and our family specifically, Mother's Day is like a High Holy Day. For the most part, we revere our mothers to the point of veneration. This is an important day for the family to be together. Mothers, after all, are the backbone of the family. And yet, as my own children came along, I never thought of Mother's Day as ...
Best of Both Worlds
WARNING: A little bit of a homeschool rant coming up.... I'm always a surprised that when people discover that we homeschool our children they ask two primary questions.You would think the questions would have to do with the actual mechanics of doing school at home, but they don't. (I know. It's shocking to me, too.) If you ...
Have you seen me?
If you've seen this beautiful blond recently, please tell her to call her mother.Last seen on Facebook. ;-) ...
Now and then
I love making connections with my photos. This is why I don't scrapbook chronologically. I just like to tell my stories.I like it even more when my photos tell a story on their own. I don't even care if the photos are blurry. I figure it's the story that is more important. Such is the case here. Here are Jonathan and Eric ...
I might not have minded if George Clooney was involved*
I say it all the time when we have a lot going on: "We don't have time for an emergency room visit this week." It's rehearsal/tech week for Willy Wonka which is this coming weekend and besides putting some last minute touches on those backdrops (will share later), I am also dressing 20 Oompa-Loompas, 8 Candy Kids, and assorted ...
Rockin’ the house
So, Adam had a few of his buddies over the other night to play Rock Band. The big selling point (besides "My mom will feed everyone") was.... "My mom will sooo kick butt er...do well... on vocals!" And so they came and we played and took turns drumming and playing guitars and vocalizing. Out in the backyard, of course, with the ...
