One of the reasons I started blogging was for my posterity (which is just a fancy way of saying "future generations.") But let me tell you why... I am blessed with having my 95 year old mother still around with her mind still sharp and her enthusiasm for life (and my projects) still intact. That was not the case for her. She left Cuba ...
My Big, Fat, Cuban Family
Family is everything to me. I love them more than words can describe.
“The Eagle has landed.”
Forty years ago this day, I was a 14 year old kid who along with my family (and the rest of the world) was glued to our TV set, watching a fuzzy picture and holding our breaths as we waited for Neil Armstrong to take his famous first steps. I vividly remember the moment he stepped on the moon and the scratchy voice coming across those thousands of ...
Hi Adam! I Love You!
Kikita here. Today is a very special day. It is the 23rd anniversary of the day I became a big sister.(Of course, that means I had someone else I could dress - and make them dress like me.) Yes, this is the day all hopes of being an only child were stolen from me and the word "SHARE" entered my life.I was the one who wanted a cat. It ...
WARNING: Cuteness overload!
I love when the four of them are all together. I especially love when they are just interacting and I have a camera trained on them. I swear it's pure comedy. (Ask me if I care if the pictures are blurry and out of focus.) I love when they speak that special sibling language that's foreign to the rest of the outside world (including me ...
Thanks, Dad.
Hi. This is Eric.I decided to hijack my wife's blog for Father's Day. I just want to thank my Dad for all the good qualities he has taught me over the years. He was always a good provider.When I was little my dad took several jobs to help provide. My dad did what he had to do to take care of my mom, my little sister and me. I don't ...
The Grand Poobah of Cuteness
My grand-nephew, Ben is celebrating a birthday today. This beautiful boy is probably the most photographed child of this century. There is a really good reason. He is just too cute. I know.Super cute, right? High cuteness factor. Cuteness oozes from his pores. In fact, he represents four years worth of cuteness. (Today is his fourth ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
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 ...
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 ...
