As the very loyal Mexican I am, I like to cook with Tequila. I’ve made tequila chicken and pasta and usually marinate steaks in a bit of Tequila. However, I had never tried to use tequila on sweet desserts. With the Cinco de Mayo craze I was able to find many different varieties of tequila … Continue reading
On our last day in Singapore we were hesitant whether to spend the day at Santosa or go to the zoo. Several friends had highly recommended the zoo and night safari but since we had been to so may zoos lately we were just zooed out… After we I had decided we were doing Santosa, … Continue reading
I recently contributed this article to the ExpatArrivals website about kids in Jakarta. I hope you find it useful and I would love to hear the experiences, whether similar or different, of any other expat parents here in Jakarta. Kids in Jakarta With a growing expat community, Jakarta boasts many International Schools with excellent standards, … Continue reading
We have had a very blessed week. As you probably saw on my earlier posts we celebrated our anniversary this week. I’m so grateful to be married to my best friend and I am looking forward to spending the rest of my life with him and see our little boys grow. On a less cheesy … Continue reading
My awesome husband surprised me with a four-hour spa treatment for our Anniversary! Last Wednesday he stayed home from work and told me to make sure I didn’t have anything going on for the next few hours. I arranged for the kids to be taken to their Kindyroo classes without me and just waited excitedly … Continue reading
Disclaimer: Please excuse the fact that this article is in Spanish but it is an article I wrote that was published in the IberoAmerican Association Quartely Magazine “El Pregonero”. If you speak Spanish, enjoy, if you don’t, No Hay Problema and come back soon for the English version. Y tú, ¿De dónde eres? Una pregunta … Continue reading
Four Years, Three Countries and Two Amazing Sons later, I’m so glad I said I do that One day. Here’s to Four more Decades, At Least Three More Countries and the Two of us Together Every Day. Te Amo Esposo!
After three years in South East Asia, we finally gave in. We went to a hotel Brunch. We’ve never been big fans of buffet brunch. We always end up eating something that makes us sick, or even worse eating too much. Back in the States we loved doing brunch, as long as it was a … Continue reading
Six suitcases, check. Carry-on bag with laptop, Ipad, camera and jewelry, check, check, check. Pregnant belly still kicking and jabbing, check. Eighteen-month old, whew, check. As we arrived to our new apartment all I could think about was how empty it seemed to me. Sure, it was full of furniture I didn’t particularly like, and … Continue reading
It feels like we have finally settled back into a routine although we did have a holiday last Thursday. The upside to this long weekend, as it was for most, but not for us, was that the flow of traffic was actually fluent! We were able to ride to different places without getting stuck in … Continue reading
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