My inaugural post…and the Rodriguez/McClure Sunday

Between my facebook profile, facebook photography page, photography website, photography blog and twitter and linked in accounts, I think it’s safe to say that I’m fairly connected, or shackled to, many frontiers of the interweb. So last week when Javi decided to start a family blog on the same day that I got a google+ invite from Bruce Reyes-Chow, I took it as yet another opportunity to allow the world to familiarize itself with the inner workings of what’s going on in our lives and dove right in to figuring out the wonderful world of widgets, wordpress and circles. Up to now, I’ve been adding all the fun little widgets on that sidebar over to your right but this is my first opportunity to introduce myself on our little family blog. So I’ll get right down to it.

Entre my perfil en facebook, la pagina de facebook de fotografia, el website de fotografia, el blog de fotografia, twitter y linked in, se puede decir que estoy bastante conectada, o atada, a varias fronteras de la red. Asi que la semana pasada cuando Javi decidio crear un blog familiar, el mismo dia que me llego la invitacion para Google+ de Bruce Reyes-Chow, lo tome como otra oportunidad para permitir que el mundo se familiarize con lo que pasa en nuestras vidas y, al mismo tiempo, aprender detalles nuevos en internet. Hasta ahora, he estado agregando cositas entretenidas al blog en la barra lateral de la derecha, pero esta es mi primera oportunidad de presentarme en nuestro blog familiar. Asi que aqui vamos!

My mom’s new years resolution for 2011 was to learn to cook, or get back into cooking, by cooking a family meal for me, Javi, dad and gma every Sunday evening. She’s one of the only people I know who has managed to keep up with a new years resolution and is still going strong today, as I type here on the kitchen table salivating over the smell of roasted chicken and pasta salad that’s permeating the room. (TMI?)

La promesa de ano nuevo de mi mama para el 2011 fue aprender a cocinar, o volver a cocinar, preparando cena para toda la familia cada Domingo en la noche. Ella es la unica persona que conozco que ha mantenido su promesa y sigue con fuerza para seguir aun hoy (mientras escribo en la mesa de la cocina salivando con el olor a pollo al horno y ensalada de pasta)

So far, mom has made us so faaaan-freakin-tastic meals. Today is no exception…here are a few photos of our future feast and feasts of old:

Hasta ahora, mama nos ha cocinado comidas faaaan-tas-ti-caaaas.Hoy no es diferente…aqui van algunas fotos de nuestro futuro festin y tambien pasados banquetes:

Today
Popovers
Javier
Dessert for my birthday – blueberry (lactose free) icecream pie!!
Chicken Pot Pie
Shepherd
Pot Roast and potatoes – guiso y pure
Most of the recipes come from here – de aqui vienen las recetas

Sundays are also a day for the whole family to relax (except for mom who won’t let anyone else REALLY dive in to help her – basting the chicken maybe, stirring a bowl of sauce is okay but she’s the one in charge of the heavy duty cooking!) and do what we’ve been hoping to do all week. Our weeks all look different of course – Javi is at work from 9-6 at CMT, Mom is working her tail off with Alive Hospice (she’s a chaplain), Gma is always meeting people at church for various groups, volunteering, writing letters, writing her autobiography (yeah she’s already written two books and she’s gmail savvy), dad…well dad is riding the downhill slope of “my book comes out this fall so I get to take a break” but he’s still doing fair bit of recording and reading and I’m usually at home with the dogs either working on thesis prep or taking care of various graduate assistant duties. Saturdays are days to take care of errands (like going to the farmers market to buy local food!!!) or to shoot weddings, but Sundays…ah. Sundays are days to go to 2nd Pres, listen to the amazing music there and see good friends, have lunch with the fam at panera, edit photos (fun!!) or lounge by the pool all day, maybe catch up on some fun reading, smell the delicious smells of mom’s impending meal, take a walk with the doggos…dad hasn’t ventured out of his studio all day…etc. We love Sundays in the Rodriguez / McClure household.

Los domingos son tambien un dia de relajo para toda la familia (excepto mama que no deja a nadie que le ayude – tal vez chequear el pollo, o revolver la olla, pero ella es la que esta a cargo de cocinarlo todo!) y hacer lo que hemos estado esperando toda la semana. Nuestras semanas siempre son distintas – Javi esta en el trabajo en CMT de 9 a 6, mama trabajando como loca en Alive Hospice (ella es una pastora), la abuela esta siempre conociendo gente en la iglesia con varios grupos, haciendo trabajo voluntario, escribiendo cartas, su autobiografia (siii, ya escribio 2 libros y es experta en Gmail), papa…bueno el esta terminando su libro que sale en el otono asi que se esta tomando un descanso, pero todavia graba mucha musica y lee mucho, y yo estoy en casa con los perros trabajando en mi tesis o trabajando en proyectos con mis profesores. Los Sabados son dias que usamos para hacer diligencias (ir a la feria a comprar comida local), sacar fotos en matrimonios, pero los Domingos….aaaah. Domingos son para ir a la iglesia, escuchar la buena musica en 2nd pres y ver a los amigos, almorzar en Panera con la familia, editar fotos (que entrete!!) o hecharse en la piscina y tal vez leer un poco, oler la comida de mama…papa no ha salido del estudio en todo el dia…etc. Nos encantan los Domingos in la casa de los Rodriguez/McClure.

Mom and Choripan
Chupete doing his thing – en lo suyo
floating Javi – flotando

What about you? what are your Sundays like?

Y tu? Que haces los domingos?

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