The following post is brought to you by: Amy, La Hija de Marta.Since Tio Timbiriche has been here I've gone all over Southern California and have learned SO MUCH. The day of the Gran Cucufate was no different. I woke up late, so the first thing I had to do was call and tell Timbiriche and Abuela that I was going to be late. ...
My Big, Fat, Cuban Family
Family is everything to me. I love them more than words can describe.
My Cuban Roots
Family history fascinates me. Maybe more so because we lost our home and family so many years ago when we left Cuba.There's that familiar tension again of living "life on the hyphen." That feeling of being 100% Cuban and 100% American. The question haunts me sometimes: What would my life have been like if. . .. . . there had been ...
My Favorite Tio
Disclaimer: It’s Amy,AGAIN. Being mostly unemployed (I am doing some work for my dad, but it isn’t much) has left me with plenty of things to say and plenty of time to say them. So I hope you don't mind that I've been hijacking my Mom's blog so much recently. :-) If you’ve been reading this past week, you know that Tio Timbiriche ...
The Traveling Hat
This is my younger brother Jonathan. (Yes, it's Amy again.) Doesn't he look adorable in the hat? I think he knows it too and that's why he wears it everywhere he goes . . . no, the real reason he wears it so much is because his hair is in the awkward phase of turning curly and he hasn't quite figured out how to master it ...
La Misma Lengua
Que bolá?It's Amy, AGAIN. But my new Cuban nickname is Kikita. (more on that another day) Anyway, my uncle is in town. Ok, he's actually my mom's uncle which makes him my tio abuelo, but we call him Tio Timbiriche. (like I said, more on nicknames another day) So his first night in town, Luza (my abuela) has made congri as part of ...
Haikus R Us
My niece Natalie has so much going for her. Ah! To be eighteen! She was so little; I thought she'd be taller now. Happy Birthday, Nat!Aunt Marti's so weird. Her haikus are ...
Lucky me?
Lucky me.They all looked sooo cute.All four of them wearing St. Patrick's Day green and all. I need a picture! one. . . two. . . three. . .Lucky for them - they're all so cute. ;-) SIGH. ...
Standing room only
There were about two hundred people at my brother-in-law's memorial service. I've never seen a chapel so packed out for a funeral. All of them came to the reception afterwards.I took this photo after about half had already left.Yes, that's Shawn Green, the baseball player, in the middle of the room. Who didn't Rafael know??More importantly, ...
Tormentillo turns 30!
Aren't they adorable?This is my favorite group of girls EVER.My daughters and their cousins, my nieces. My dad used to say, "I always thought my daughters were the most beautiful women in the world . . . until they had daughters of their own." I often think of him in relation to these girls. How he was so proud of each one. How he loved ...
On belonging
Amy likes to think she's adopted. (she's not) She protests that she doesn't look like anyone in the family. I insist that all four of them look just like me. . . when they smile.I think they inherited more personality than looks from me, but that's not important right now. The Darby family. But then I remember I used to say that all the time ...
