Archives for January, 2011
For a kid, Adi has a pretty unusual taste for food. She eats like an adult and prefers “adult” food….sometimes. Case in point, whenever were at Starbucks she will scoff at the yummy cakes and cookies on the display. She says no to a Grande Vanilla Frap. Instead she points to the Ensaymada with lots [...]
On a recent trip to S&R, I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the local poultry companies had once again come out with their jumbo chickens. These chickens are at least 3 kilos or roughly 7 pounds in weight. They’re huge….somewhat like little turkeys. So excited was I that I quickly picked up [...]
Much as I would like my kids to eat veggies, its so difficult. The mere sight of anything that resembles a veggie in their food gets them all “ewwwwwy”. My solution….hide the veggies. Instead of whole veggies, I make soup and blend in the veggies so they don’t see it. I also like mixing it [...]
When I was a kid, my father passed the “Double or Nothing” bill that was designed to teach us how to save. The rule was if we had anything saved from our allowance at the end of week, he would double it and we would deposit it in the bank every Friday. It was an [...]
We had another health scare last week. At around noon last Thursday, I received a call from the school doctor saying that Gaby had a fever and had to be fetched a.s.a.p. So off I went to school to get my kid. Good thing that there was absolutely no traffic on the road and I [...]
As a Mom to 2 precocious and overly-active little girls, it can sometimes be a task to keep them occupied when there is not much to do. Others would so the usual route and probably just haul their asses to the nearest mall and park the kiddos in Timezone or one of those pay-and-play-rubberized-and-foamed-play-areas but [...]
My husband isn’t the best driver in the world. And he is the last person in the world to admit that he can be the penultimate asshole on the road. Anyway, it started with a bumper sticker. My husband saw our neighbor’s bumper sticker saying “I’m not speeding…I’m qualifying.” He found it absolutely cute. I [...]
A week before Christmas, I decided to beat the holiday rush by bringing my kids for their requisite “Christmas pasyal” way before everyone else. They really wanted to go to an amusement park but I dreaded the weekend crowd….and the added threat of catching some sort of virus given that everyone seemed to be getting [...]
Every Christmas I make it a point to prepare something new for the Noche Buena table. Last year it was a Frozen Brazo de Mercedes cake that was not only delicious, it was downright sinful. This year I was planning to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes so I could use up some of the peanut [...]
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