Cafe y Chisme Corner

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Mi Bautizo Gracias: The Recuerdos Guide for a F...

Recuerdos — the small favors guests take home from a bautizo — are a tradition as old as the event itself. The word means "memories" or "remembrances," and in the...

Mi Bautizo Gracias: The Recuerdos Guide for a F...

Recuerdos — the small favors guests take home from a bautizo — are a tradition as old as the event itself. The word means "memories" or "remembrances," and in the...

El Chupacabra Baby Shirt: Introducing the Myth,...

Every family with small children eventually confronts the following truth: this child, who is very small and very cute and technically cannot walk yet, has somehow reorganized the entire household...

El Chupacabra Baby Shirt: Introducing the Myth,...

Every family with small children eventually confronts the following truth: this child, who is very small and very cute and technically cannot walk yet, has somehow reorganized the entire household...

Bautizo Gifts: For the Baby's First Sacrament a...

The bautizo is the baby's first sacrament — the formal welcome into the faith, the family, and the community. It is not a secular event with a religious backdrop. It...

Bautizo Gifts: For the Baby's First Sacrament a...

The bautizo is the baby's first sacrament — the formal welcome into the faith, the family, and the community. It is not a secular event with a religious backdrop. It...

Latina Baby Shower Gifts: What to Bring, What t...

The Latina baby shower already has a committee. Someone is handling the food (too much food — this is not negotiable). Someone else is handling the decorations. There is a...

Latina Baby Shower Gifts: What to Bring, What t...

The Latina baby shower already has a committee. Someone is handling the food (too much food — this is not negotiable). Someone else is handling the decorations. There is a...

Matching Hermana Shirts: Because "Sister" Doesn...

"Sister" is what you'd say on a form. "Hermana" is what you'd say in real life — in the sentence, in the story, in the voice note at midnight. They're...

Matching Hermana Shirts: Because "Sister" Doesn...

"Sister" is what you'd say on a form. "Hermana" is what you'd say in real life — in the sentence, in the story, in the voice note at midnight. They're...

Hermana de Quinceañera: The Role, the Outfit, and the Gift That Says You Were Here for All of It

Hermana de Quinceañera: The Role, the Outfit, a...

The quinceañera has a lot of roles and most of them have names: the quinceañera herself, the corte, the madrina, the padrino, the chambelán de honor. Some roles have shirts....

Hermana de Quinceañera: The Role, the Outfit, a...

The quinceañera has a lot of roles and most of them have names: the quinceañera herself, the corte, the madrina, the padrino, the chambelán de honor. Some roles have shirts....