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Carnival 2012 in Colindres: Snow White

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Today was the big Carnival parade, sort of a “Halloween meets Mardi Gras” thing that is very typical for children in Spanish culture. Apparently I did such a fine job last year that my presence was simply assumed as The Official Daycare Photographer. Perhaps in honor of that job, I was also given a leading [...]

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Nativity Shepherds

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Today Nora’s daycare had a special Christmas party in which one of the activities is dressing like shepherds and making the 200 meter trek from daycare to the town church where they have an amazing nativity scene set up, called a belén, which also means Bethlehem and is the name of my sister-in-law. I finally [...]

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I want to stay at home!

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Before her three week vacation of non-stop 24-hour grandparent attention, Nora was pretty good about going to daycare. After her lunch, she’d say, “And now we have to go to daycare!” and hop in her stroller for me to take her. After vacation, it’s been more of a struggle. The first two days, she cried [...]

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Carnival 2011 in Colindres – Angels and Demons

Friday, March 4th, 2011

A few weeks ago, we received a letter from Nora’s daycare that read something like this: On Friday, March 4, we will celebrate Carnival and go on a parade around town with all the other daycares and schools. This year the children will be dressed up as demons (very appropriate) and the educators and parents [...]

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