My nephew, John-Paul was married last Friday to the lovely Jennifer Jo. There are not enough superlatives to describe how perfectly beautiful the entire affair was. (Except for the part where my sisters and mom showed up at a different wedding claiming to be the groom, John-Paul's aunts and grandmother. "That's great, but this is ...
My Big, Fat, Cuban Family
Family is everything to me. I love them more than words can describe.
Season’s greetings
Meet Michelle. She's my fabulous sister-in-law. Today is her birthday and it's also the first day of Spring. Isn't it clever of her to arrange it that way? A new season. A new year. That's exactly how she is. Clever. Capable. Funny. Smart. Beautiful. This page is from the family quiz book I made everyone for ...
Party animal
In 2001, when my nephew George got married in Hawaii, we (the Darbys) took my mom along. It was quite a big deal. After all, she was already 87 years old! Today, we are on our way to Las Vegas. My nephew, John-Paul is getting married this weekend. Guess who insists on going along?Yep. That's my mom. She just recently went ...
Sharing life.
Twenty-five. That's how many steps it takes us to walk from our front door to our next-door neighbor's door. Twenty-five steps. And we walk those twenty-five steps dozens of times during the week (sometimes during one day, but that's not important right now). Debbie ( the mom): "We made homemade enchiladas. Come for ...
“Funny, but you don’t look Cuban.”
I get this all the time. It's the blue eyes and fair skin that seems to confuse people. Or maybe it's that all the news lately from Cuba seems to show a sort of third-world-dark-skinned population. And yes, many Cubans are black. And Chinese. And even Jewish. We Cubans come in all sizes and flavors. =D To clarify, both my parents ...
I didn’t forget you, John
When you have as many people as I do in my big, fat, Cuban family, practically every day is a celebration. Weddings. Engagements. Birthdays. Weddings. Birthdays. Weddings and Birthdays. ad infinitum. And sadly, there are a few that I've missed or have fallen through the blog-cracks. (I feel bad. *sigh*) Today is my nephew, John-Paul's ...
You have my permission…
This is for my niece, Nicole and her new husband, Isaac, who have been BUSY this last month. (It's not like she had an old husband or anything, I mean that he is new to her, as in they are newlyweds, or freshly married, or....oh, you know what I mean....) Here's some wordle word art I made for you:These two have had an awfully ...
Terms of Endearment
What do you call your Cuban mother? (or your mother of any nationality for that matter...) I started wondering about this earlier when I noticed that my sisters and I call my mom by different names. Her given name is Luz Aurora and her first precocious granddaughter, Annette, liked the sound of that and so christened her Luza. The name ...
Sapo verde eres tu
I don't know her very well, because, well, she lives in Miami and I'm here in So Cal. We've a little bit of face-time in the past year, but not enough to where I can say I know everything there is to know about her. But I do know this..... Not only did my nephew, Michael, fall in love with her, so has every single person in our big, ...
Ninety-five.
She still dyes her hair and wears makeup every day.She only wears her glasses for reading because she's a little vain about her looks.She remembers everyone's birthday.If you're sick, she'll call you every day until you report that you are well.She saves every card from every birthday, Mother's Day and Christmas and works ...
