Tag: latism
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Guest Post: Javier is a citizen!!
My grandma wrote this guest post – a wonderful, detailed account for the whole family of Javier’s citizenship ceremony. We couldn’t attend because we were in Florida for my cousin’s wedding, but grandma accompanied Javier and we were so grateful she could be there with him! Thanks gma! Mi abuela escribio este post – una…
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We are growing fruit too!!
Most times we are outside, we look at our fence and think….there must be something we can do about this fence. We thought about painting it, but that would take A LOT of paint and money (and effort…). We also thought about growing a vine that could cover the fence over time, and we really…
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Sabores Chilenos
One of the first things that came to our mind when we knew we were coming to Miami was…Chilean food!!! and after the very first meal, Miami delivered! We don’t have a Chilean restaurant in Nashville (not that we know of, if we do please share the information!), so when we have a chance to…
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Letters from Grandmother v.2
This is the second letter in our collection. For those who missed the first, please take a second to read it here. For this letter you must keep in mind that at the time the voting age was 21 and she was only 20. (the translated version is after the english version) Esta es la…
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Casa Azafrán & Congratulations Conexión Americas!
Oh hallelujah. The end of the semester is in sight. Today I turned in one of my two final papers – the other one is due on Monday. It’s been a crazy semester! It will probably be a pretty busy holiday too, but not quite like the “busy” we had last year when the Rodriguez…
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Letters from Grandmother v.1
In our post about our very McClure thanksgiving we mentioned that we spent quite a bit of time during the thanksgiving holiday reading the letters that Leslie’s grandparents wrote to each other when they were dating (well, secretly engaged – in 1944). We are so happy that these letters exist – it really is a…
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Playing Dictionary
Whenever we have a big family reunion we try to play games that include as many people as possible. One of our favorite games, and one where anyone can play since there is no limit for the number of players, is dictionary. Cada vez que tenemos una reunión familiar, intentamos jugar a algo que incluya a la…
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Thanksgiving Javi Style Mashed Potatoes
For a couple of years now I have been assigned to mashed potato duty at Thanksgiving. I am not sure why I was asked to make them in the first place since honestly I don’t have a recipe to make them. I guess I’m an expert now since the family keeps asking me to make…
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Corn bread adventure
Cornbread was something completely unknown to me before moving to the States. It never sounded very tasty or appetizing (much like meatloaf). Bread made with corn?…it just did not click for me until I tried it. With thanksgiving coming up I decided to go for a new adventure and try to make some cornbread. I…
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Sprucing up the porch
Our porch is, in my opinion, one of the best parts of our house and Javi and I spend as much time as we can out there. It’s also the home to the Porch Practice Sessions for Hickory Slims, so I spend quite a bit of time on that little slab of concrete in front…
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VOTE: for the next King of the Backyard!
Even without the barrage of reminders on various social media outlets about election day, it should be pretty clear by now that it’s finally time to vote. This morning I did my civic duty and voted, and this is Javier’s last election as a non-citizen. Next time around he’ll be able to vote too! My presidential pick isn’t much…
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Halloween at Los Rodriguez mansion
Well, Halloween was scary for us for a few reasons. First, on Tuesday night before Halloween Javier and I realized that the reason Chupete had been acting weird all day was not, in fact, because he was scared of the halloween decorations we put up (though it is very true that he’s scared of them).…
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Making the most of the weekend
(side note: don’t forget to enter our giveaway! We are picking a winner on Monday!) (Nota : No se olviden de entrar en nuestro concurso! Vamos a elegir al ganador el Lunes!) We’re so excited for this weekend – it’s the first completely free weekend we’ve had in a long, long time. No plans, no…
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Los Rodriguez Life Giveaway / Sorteo !
As you might have noticed from our posts over the past week, we were nominated for Best Bilingual Blogger at the LATISM 2012 Conference. Houston hosted the conference this year and the conference featured many popular Latino/a bloggers. We couldn’t be there this year but we hope to join in the fun at future conferences.…
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LATISM Best Bilingual Blogger Nomination!
click on the image above or go here: http://conference.latism.org/latism-awards-2/ to vote for us! One really cool wordpress stats feature is that you can see the “referrers” to the blog – or the various sites that direct people to losrodriguezlife.com. Most of the time for us this includes facebook, twitter, stumbleupon, pinterest, or search engines, but today…
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Travel Ups and Downs
On the morning we left for Colorado Javier and I got to the airport extra early because we didn’t know how long the lines would be, but we were through security 2 hours before our flight took off. We congratulated ourselves on having plenty of time to spare once we got to the gate (with…
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Los Rodriguez Life on TV!
Back in June we posted about our experience with NPR’s StoryCorps, which was subsequently featured on HispanicNashville.com. Shortly after we showed up on Hispanic Nashville, News Channel 5’s Que Pasa Nashville contacted us about doing a segment on the blog, featuring our trip to StoryCorps. Que Pasa Nashville is a half-hour program that features stories from…
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