Mom of twins, wife and educator

Day off and home with kids. They are here watching television while I write. They are watching PBS kids, my son can watch television all day while my daughter loves to write, color, draw and play teacher. He does love sports and being outdoors. They are twins but have very different personalities which we love. This week we decorated pumpkins and they made such a mess but enjoyed every minute of it. We try to do things together as a family because children will remember time spent with one another more than anything in the world. I remember Sundays were family day when I was a child because my Father owned a Liquor store and he worked long hours day and night. We would go to church, visit family and friends, go to the park depending on the season, the store to shop, different beaches but the best memories were when we went to the Dominican Republic for a month or so every two years. What I am trying to say is that childhood is a short period of time but the most important

Let's talk about Culture and Education. The two subjects are very important to me because I love my culture and learning about someone else's culture and I love Education and learning more about how education can open many doors to many people.   I am a Latina woman. Dominican-American. I was born in Providence, Rhode Island but grew up speaking Spanish at home. Everything I did was in Spanish or Dominican slang or Dominican. I ate rice and beans, platano, mangu. Listened to Merengue, Salsa and Bachata. With only one television at home, night time was for watching telenovelas. Thalia was my favorite actress at that time. Juan Luis Guerra, Los Toro Band, Las Chicas del Can was a few of my merengue favorites. Anthony Santos was the Bachata king at that time. I can go on with my list because for the first five years before attending kindergarten, I was Dominican while living in the United States. We also had the privilege to travel to the Dominican Republic to visit our gra