Tag: family

  • September

    It’s been a busy summer around here and can’t believe it’s September already. Last month we went to Puerto Rico to celebrate my grandmother’s 97th birthday and had a lot of fun. She is doing great and we loved spending that special day with her. We were afraid we weren’t going to make it due…

  • April Stuff

    School Two weeks and a day! That’s what I have left of school. I am currently trying to survive my internship (preceptorship) and it’s going well. I’m a little tired but that was to be expected. Working 12 hours shifts is tough but I’m learning a lot and love the job. Taking on a full…

  • Happy New Year

    I guess it’s about time to wish everyone a happy new year so…Happy New Year! I haven’t updated much lately because I was off the entire week after Christmas, and we spent much of the time relaxing and taking day trips. I received a ton of great gifts, and as always, everyone was extremely generous…

  • Busy Week

    Pretty busy week for us. On Monday, Monica and I attended a luncheon for my Mom’s retirement. There’s not too many photos here yet, but there will be as soon as I get the pics from my Mom’s camera. We ate lunch at the Olive Garden and my Mom had to give a speech (she…

  • Very Thankful

    I’m sitting here once again watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, having just returned from the airport to pick up Monica’s mom. They sure do like plugging the NBC shows on here. And they also like showing me all the Broadway shows that I’ve never heard of, but at least I can look at the…

  • Retirement Time

    We attended a retirement party for my Dad yesterday. After joining the Navy forty five years ago, and Civil Service twenty five years ago, he’s decided to call it a career. His actual last day isn’t until the end of the year, but his office commemorated it (or perhaps celebrated it? 😉 ) yesterday. I’ve…

  • Shriners

    Pretty uneventful weekend around here as it rained for most of it. I’ve had to do some actual work which makes for what amounts to a non-existent weekend, but we did manage to head out yesterday evening to help out my Dad and Marlene with one of their Shrine events. We helped hand out drinks…

  • I am not a gardener

    My Dad gave me some veggies from his garden yesterday, and we enjoyed some of them in a salad today. He’s a regular farmer with his monster garden, with his rows upon rows of vegetables. He could put Del Monte out of business. Meanwhile we’re chugging along with one radish and one green pepper. I…

  • Memorial Weekend Update

    This weekend was very exciting for me because my mom Julia and my cousin Luis drove all the way from The Bronx to come see us. They drove all Friday night and arrived Saturday early morning. After some sleep, we had a wonderful lunch of platanos con huevos (plantains and eggs) and headed to the…

  • HMD

    My Mom just left our house with flowers in hand after enjoying a feast of fajitas. We also enjoyed a great strawberry swirl cake that Monica whipped up, and just had a swell time. This is the first time I’ve spent Mother’s Day with my Mom since I went off to college in 1991. Every…