Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Phone Tree...Next Generation



Today I realized I was truely an adult.  Period.  Not because I paid a bill or because I accomplished something with a great deal of tact.  I realized I was an adult because I got a phone call from my sister.

I got a phone call from my sister to tell me that my uncle in El Salvador passed away.  I never
met him but he was a good man. 

My sister told me the news and then it was my job to notify my cousins to pass the news along.

While talking to my cousin I made the realization that we were now the adults.

Every family has a phone tree.  Something happens and the phone calls start trickling through the family spreading the news.

When I was growing up, my mom got these calls and then had to break whatever news it was to my dad and her child...me.

Now I'm the one getting the phone call, not my mom.  I'm the one who had to tell her, not the other way around.  I'm the one who had to console her telling her he was in a better place now.

Being an adult sucks. 


Friday, November 23, 2007

Face Painting!




Here are some examples of things I've done

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Sonia's Sweet Potato Pie!!!

Happy Post Thanksgiving to everyone!  Yesterday I ate way too much at my Godmother's house!  Being a good guest, I did not show up empty handed....I hate it when people show up empty handed...bottom line, it's ghetto!!  But I digress....I came with my famous Sweet Potato Pie.

My family...being the good latin family that they are sit back and watch the women duke it out for top reviews through their food.  My Godmother as always made the most beautiful turkey.  Miss Gina bought her stuffing, which contains kidney beans, sausage and diced apples....soooo very good!  And I brough my pie...which usually ends up competing with Christina's pumpkin flan.

No flan this year....I was disappointed.

However, an new guest at our yearly Turkey fest brought pies too....sweet potato pie.  As she laid out her pie next to mine all I could thing was "What the $@#@ is this!!!"

Luckily...my pie blew hers out of the water.

That's really what the holidays are about....shaming each other through the flaws in our foods.  Well in my family anyway.  And of course...all that family bonding stuff too!

People in my Life!


awwww! So precious!





These are some of the people I love!

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