This is a photo of my daughter and me during a trip to South Beach. Can you say Mini-me?
#ThrowbackThursday My Fishing Expedition
This throwback is to last week and some time I spent fishing off a dock in Florida. I caught a croaker, but the no-see-ums got me and good. I released the croaker and am now dealing with an incredible number of bug bites, but it was worth it!
Here’s another photo from last week of the lovely Jupiter Island lighthouse all done up for Christmas!
#ThrowbackThursday Christmas Village 2010 and this year’s village!
Wow, counting down to Christmas Eve. Lights are up. Tree is up. Gifts are being wrapped and the Christmas Village is up. I changed it up a little this year from year’s past so today’s Throwback Thursday is a look at the 2010 village as well as photos from this year’s village!
You can click here to see the 2010 Christmas Village video if you can’t see it below.
Here are photos from this year’s village!
#ThrowbackThursday 2015 New York City Christmas
Today’s Throwback Thursday isn’t that far a throwback – just to this past Tuesday when we did our annual jaunt into New York City for the Christmas decorations. The video below is of the window displays at various New York City department stores – Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Sak’s and Bergdorf Goodman. We had a blast this year and I’ll be sharing more photos/videos shortly! Click here if you can’t see the Christmas Window video below.
#ThrowbackThursday My Dad
I’ve posted lots of photos of other family members, but not my dad. A lot of people say that I look like him and in this photo, I can kind of see the resemblance. My father could be distant and yet, amazingly romantic and sentimental. One of my most vivid memories of that was of one of the first times he took me to learn to drive. We were in a parking lot and I was tooling around when I heard a sniffle and saw him wiping his eyes. I asked him why and he said that it was because I was holding the wheel just like his dad used to hold the wheel.
I never really knew my dad’s dad. My dad’s parents were divorced and his dad had remarried and stayed in Cuba after all of us left. He died in Cuba when I was a teenager and I know my father felt his loss since it had been so long since he had seen him.
Anyway, here is a picture of my dad as a young boy.
#ThrowbackThursday NY World’s Fair with My Sis
I remember the World’s Fair like it was yesterday! We went a few times since we lived close by back then. I loved the It’s a Small World exhibit that eventually made its way to the Disney theme parks. This is a photo of my sister and me at the fair. We were all ready for the sun with our cowboy hats! My sister was already shooting up to be taller than me. Sigh.
Some people don’t think that my sis and I look alike, but I think in this photo you can see that our faces are very similar. Especially the eye scrunch. We both have light colored eyes and they are more sensitive to the sun.
#ThrowbackThursday My Mom
It’s hard to believe sometimes that my mom has been gone from my life more than she was in it. Weird, because she made such a lasting impression on my character. She was my best friend and my mentor besides being my mom. She was also someone who always pushed me to do more, which isn’t necessarily a good thing because sometimes she pushed too much. I see myself pushing too much sometimes and have to really pull back from that because it can be damaging as well.
But anyway, here’s my mom when she was maybe in her twenties. A beautiful woman as well as smart and determined.
