When Life Gets Tough, I Rise Above It And Get Tougher! #RiseAboveIt #NoTeRindas #Ad

This is a compensated campaign in collaboration with Pine-Sol® and Latina Bloggers Connect.     When I was 30 years old, two things happened to me that year, I gave birth to my youngest son and I found out I had cancer.  If it is shocking for you to read that, imagine how shocking and bitter-sweet it was for me to go through one of the most joyous events in my life while, at the same time, going through one of the most devastating things that could possibly happen to me.  Unfortunately, I didn't have the luxury of falling apart because I had a three year-old and a newborn that needed me to keep it together.     I remember the weekend after my diagnosis, I lay in bed feeling sorry for myself and wondering why this would happen to me.  After a while, I realized that the answer was "Why not me?"  People go through tragedies and receive bad news regularly so what made me exempt from it?  At that moment I decided that I was going to stay strong and rise above my cancer diagnosis, not … [Read more...]

Let #AngelSoft Create Balance In Your Household!

    When I tell you that I am a very busy mom, I am not exaggerating.  Most days I am all over the place trying to juggle all of my roles and hoping to get everything accomplished.  Between managing a full-time career as an educator, running a household, parenting my two boys, and keeping my husband happy, I barely have a second to myself.     During the day, you can find me grading papers during my preparatory periods and working through my lunch.  Once I punch out at my day job, I come home to start all over again with supervising homework, making dinner, doing laundry, and cleaning the house.  I generally don't go to sleep until well past midnight, even on weekdays.  For all of these reasons and more, I look for products to use in our home that aren't going to add to my already heavy workload.     My goal is to make every shopping trip or household task as quick and easy as possible at all times.  Why is this so important, you ask?  At the end of the day, the most important … [Read more...]