Tag: family
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working on that work / life balance
I mentally prepared myself all week to pass the weekend in a state of slight panic and under major stress trying to finish up the semester, but I was pleasantly surprised on Friday when I found myself 2 pages ahead of schedule on my final paper for one of my classes. SO, to celebrate minor…
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4:00-6:00
Who else besides me divides the hours of weekdays into favorite / least favorite times of day? I can’t be the only one right? On the average day, when nothing extraordinary is going on, my favorite / least favorite hours of the day go like this: Quien mas aparte de mi divide las horas de…
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My Mother-In-Law is watching my steps
Every time I hear that someone has hundreds or pairs of shoes, I can’t understand it. I am the complete opposite. I tend to use tennis shoes for everything and since I got an awesome pair of Clarks indoor/outdoor slippers, those two paires are all I use to go to class, work, church, grocery shopping,…
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Our Easter!
Our Easter day was awesome. It’s the closest I’ve come to a vacation all semester and the closest I’ll get to vacation again til June. I spent all day Saturday doing work for school so I could safely take the day off on Sunday. We took the doggos to the Dog Spot early in the morning…
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Might as well be summer in Nashville
It’s barely spring and we’re already acting like it’s summer at the Los Rodriguez mansion. Ever since Javier bought his grill the weather has been consistently in the 80s and I think today it got all the way to 91. Does anyone remember back in February when I mentioned I might be a little bummed…
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Summer prep and other weekend happenings
Over the weekend Javier pretended it was summer. We went to Lowes Saturday morning to buy some spackle to fix something in the office and we left with a brand new charcoal grill and a weed whacker. Javi spent the afternoon assembling his new grill and giving our lawn a much, much needed manicure. This…
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Family Scholars
Last weekend when Melissa and Andre brought my great-grandfather’s desk they also brought a few of my granddaddy’s notebooks from his freshman year at Maryville College. I only knew him as…well, a grandaddy! So it’s always really fun for me to see little things like these notebooks to show me what he was like when…
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My great grandfather’s desk
This weekend was another crazy weekend – and I haven’t even finished posting about LAST weekend (I still have photos to share from our “welcome home Jason / Brasil carnaval” party)! I am entering midterms week – which is the no. 1 reason our posts have been few and far between and the reason we’re…
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A weekend of Puerto Rico
Javi and I just wrapped a terrific weekend spent in the company of Ian and Andrea who came down from Chicago to visit for a few days. We found out they were coming last weekend so it was a great surprise – Ian had a few meetings for work that he managed to schedule on…
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Directly from the Rodriguez’ chest of memories / Fotos del baul de los recuerdos
Last week I received an email from my sister Paula with a bunch of old family pictures that she found in an old chest. Back in Chile we have a ton of pictures that Leslie and I want to bring back to Nashville to digitize. Looking through old pictures is so much fun for us…
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Now it’s just us…
Well, the house is now pretty empty. It’s back to just the 4 of us – Javi and me and the pupsters. Yesterday was the first day in a month that I came home to an empty house (with the exception of the doggos) – no Paula knitting on the couch, no Mery crocheting by…
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Batteries recharged!…now back to the grind
Our vacation is over. Tomorrow we are going back to work, school and the regular schedule…it’s inevitable, but looking back we had a blast and our “batteries” have been recharged! Nuestras vacacioes han terminado. Manana volvemos al trabajo, las clases, y la rutina regular…es inevitable, pero mirando hacia atras lo pasamos muy bien y nuestras…
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Cowboys and Huasos
Yesterday Javi and I spent the day as tourists in our own city. We went to Room in the Inn for a couple hours to do a tour of the new building – Macarena is a social worker in Chile and was hoping to take some of the ideas from RITI back to Santiago. It’s…
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Falta Poco!
We spent yet another great day with the Rodriguez family – we only have a few more left! We are all currently listening to Amalia Rodrigues (Fado…beautiful folk music from Portugal) and recovering from our evening at the Village Pub. I had another really fun show tonight at the VP and their front porch was…
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New Years Fiesta!
Our night was simple and hilarious. Maca spent the whole day cutting out pictures of things we like from magazines for our photobooth backdrop – pictures of things like snow, dogs, lights, food, people laughing, etc. She also made little signs that said “Rodriguez McClure,” “amor hope paz” and “Feliz año nuevo.” We spent most…
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ceviche, yarn and basquetbol
I told you all Paula spoils us – last night in addition to making 3 pans full of pastel de choclo, she also made a serving of ceviche big enough for 10 people and MORE for lunch today. It sat all night long marinating in lemon juice and it was fabulous. I’ll put the recipe…
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Pastel de Choclo
Paula spoils us when she visits us in Nashville. Yesterday she made us a typical Chilean dish called pastel de choclo – I think the closest translation would be corn casserole. It’s typical to Chile the way grits are typical in the U.S. south – a simple but delicious corn staple. The ingredients (for 10…
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What a Christmas!
Normally I don’t think I’d spend a whole post talking about what I got for Christmas, but this year was extra special. I can’t believe the number of handmade and thoughtful gifts we unwrapped yesterday! Last night when we finally got back to our house after spending Christmas at my parents’ house we spread everything…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS / FELIZ NAVIDAD!
Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!!! It’s been a crazy few days and we have tons and tons to share, but for now we’ll leave you with a few photos and videos from the show on Friday. We hope this is a lovely Christmas / holiday / day for everyone! It’s been very very…
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