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I hope you had a wonderful time with your loved ones and are as excited as I am about 2010! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! / Happy New Year!

ACK! This has been a trying week! Worse, it kept me from posting my giveaways, freebies and discounts in a timely manner, which is so unlike me so I wanted to apologize. There's so much going on in the Latina household that I've been missing in action on Twitter, Facebook and my Blog! First, I [...]

"That's my Mom." "She can't be your Mom, she's not brown!"  Turning, slowly, he looks. Could it be true, his eyes said, as he ran towards me. Before he even reached me, the words were slipping out of his mouth. "Am I adopted?" "No, honey", I said, "God makes Mommies in all shapes, sizes, and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! This is my first Thanksgiving as a blogger and so I wanted to continue my real life tradition by posting the top ten things I am grateful for.  Here goes! 1. First and foremost, I am thankful to have found God, without Him my life would be extremely different from what it is today. [...]

  If you're not on Twitter then you missed the news: I was featured! Urbane Perspective, an online magazine, which caters to the "modern day Black, Asian, and Latina woman", or urbane females, featured me last month.  Not sure what an urbane female is, read on:  An urbane female is hardworking, appreciative, persistent, proud, intelligent, and keen. She enjoys [...]

With the holidays almost upon us and a new year around the corner, I am envisioning tropical vacations for myself, one with and one without my boys.With this discovery, came the realization that I needed to create two lists. The lists had to detail what each vacation required to make them enjoyable. On the top [...]

When I was selected to speak at Blogalicious, I was overjoyed and frightened at the same time. I can't recall which emotion ruled, but I KNOW I would not have missed it for anything in the world! Why? Well let me count the ways! One:  Blogalicious 2009 was the 1st Blog Conference for Women of Color; however, women bloggers from [...]

Good Mood Gig from SAM-e   If you follow me on Twitter then you've already heard the news! I recently applied for the Good Mood Gig from SAM-e! I'm extremely excited to try out for this opportunity and hope you will support me. First: Thank you to everyone who has already voted and continues to [...]

Sigh.. He was amazing! He was passionate, entertaining and so attentive. He made me sing and jump with joy as no other has ever done. I screamed his name until I was hoarse. The next day all I could think of was H.I.M. John Legend. There was just one problem ... I had to share [...]