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Puerto Rico

What Does Being Latina Mean to Me?

This post was first published on October 7, 2009. Since I’m speaking today on a panel titled “Latinas in Social Media” at the BlogHer 2010 conference and exploring how being Latina influences our social media interactions, I thought this post was timely. I’ve been asked a difficult question. I was asked to write about what [...]

Meat Lovers: A Newlywed Story and Bistec Encebollado Recipe – Plus A #IHeartBeef Giveaway!

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Disclosure: This post is part of a “I Heart Beef” campaign with TheMotherhood.com on behalf of The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. I will receive compensation for sharing my memories with you, but my opinions are mine. In fact, I have always loved beef. We are what you would call meat lovers. That is to say [...]

Celebrating Three Kings Day

Puerto Rico

Happy Three Kings Day! Feliz Día de los Tres Reyes Magos! We did it. Last year, after not celebrating, I resolved to celebrate Three Kings Day this year. And, though it’s a normal work day and baby girl is at preschool today, she did get her gift this morning and participated in the traditional Three [...]

Celebrating Christmas Eve with Coquito!

Puerto Rico

It’s Noche Buena…Feliz Navidad! It may sound strange, but as I’ve mentioned before, Christmas Eve is actually the day that we get together and celebrate. Normally, our whole family gathers at someone’s house and we have our typical Noche Buena dinner. A traditional Puerto Rican Christmas Eve dinner has the following dishes: Arroz con Gandules [...]

SpanglishBaby’s Bicultural Holiday Traditions

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Starting today, SpanglishBaby, is hosting 7 days of Mamás Blogueras (Blogging Moms) and highlighting posts about our bi-cultural holiday traditions. I’m honored to be 1 of the 7 mamis being featured! You can find my post up today: Embracing Puerto Rican Christmas Traditions. A little excerpt for you: Growing up, we always knew Navidad had [...]

What Does Being Latina Mean to Me?

Puerto Rico

****This post was originally posted in March 2009 at Family Eden. Since that blog is no longer active, I wanted to share with you.**** I’ve been asked a difficult question. I was asked to write about what it means to me to be a Latina. To be honest, I’ve never really given it much thought. [...]

Portraits of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

This will be the last post about our Puerto Rico vacation. With it, I share a few more photos from our trip. Enjoy. ***All pictures taken by Justin Edwards.***

Eating My Way through Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Before I left for our vacation, I shared with you which foods from Puerto Rico I was most looking forward to eating while on our trip. I didn’t get to eat all of them, but did eat many and some that weren’t even on my list. Food Tour of our Trip to Puerto Rico Alcapurrias [...]