Things I Dislike, Yet Love

Posted on January 12, 2010 - Filed Under Friends, Fun | 7 Comments

My friend Gloria just posted a funny post on her blog about things she says she dislikes, but secretly loves. I’m going to join in her sort of unofficial meme, just because I’m kind of bored of blogging about all things Guatemala and because I have taken no photos (none that can be posted online, [...]

Guatemalan Justice

Posted on January 11, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala | 6 Comments

When you live in Guatemala for a while, you get used to the way things are done. You learn to buy strawberries by the pound, limes by the hand, and bananas by the stack. You learn to live with the fact that someone telling you your gas will be there in ten minutes probably means [...]

Sometimes It’s All in the Attitude

Posted on January 10, 2010 - Filed Under Kids, Mom Stuff, Personal | 5 Comments

My goal for this month was to do more with my kids and spend more time with them. Let’s just say that hasn’t been going very well. It’s really hard to want to do stuff with your children when you wake up annoyed and irritated with them, I’ve discovered!
I love my boys to bits and [...]

Of Mice and Men

Posted on January 8, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 13 Comments

No, I’m not going all literary on you (though Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck IS a great book!), this is just another series of days in our life here in Guatemala.
We have mouse problems. Our house is so far from mouseproof, it’s laughable. First of all, our walls don’t seal with the tin [...]

A New Family Favorite

Posted on January 5, 2010 - Filed Under Food | 1 Comment

I’ve been cooking a lot the past while, to build up recipes for Gourmet Mama and also to start working on some cookbooks that I’ve had bopping around in my head for a while. Truthfully, there are a lot of things going on in my head and I rarely focus enough to actually do anything [...]

Is This Supposed to Make Sense?

Posted on January 3, 2010 - Filed Under Personal | 6 Comments

Men and women are different species. The conversation I just had with Irving confirms it.
Me: “After all that downloading, my movie doesn’t work!”
Irving: “What does it say?”
Me: “Nothing. It says nothing, it just doesn’t work.”
Irving: “It has to say something. Let me see.”
Me: “It doesn’t play at all. I don’t think it downloaded properly.”
Irving: “I [...]

In the Street 2

Posted on January 3, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala, Kids | 4 Comments

You didn’t think I ONLY took pictures of other people in the street, did you?
My two favorite pics from the convite . . .

I tried to get some of the boys together. As you can see, we have a clown in the family.

In the Street

Posted on January 3, 2010 - Filed Under Guatemala | 5 Comments

This time of year, there are tons of processions, the convite and all sorts of things that I have no understanding of. That means we take the boys out into the street quite a bit to watch these odd goings on and I usually take the camera. Rather than take just photos of my kids [...]

So, It’s 2010

Posted on January 1, 2010 - Filed Under Personal | 3 Comments

When I was little, we had a children’s book that was set in 1981 . . . supposedly the distant future . . . when people lived under the sea. It fasinated me at the time that what someone else had considered the future was now my present. I made sure to write my futuristic [...]

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