Disclosure: This is a sponsored campaign with Johnson & Johnson and Latina Bloggers Connect. However all opinions are 100% my own.
Johnson & Johnson and Univision have launched a campaign to find an authentic, modern, and active family to become La Familia de Hoy (Family of Today.) They have three finalist but I want to share with you my favorite finalist.
Meet the Jiménez Family! They are predominantly Mexican and are Juan, together with his wife Bivianna, from Colombia, and their kids Elisa (11), Diego (9) and Benicio (5). Grandma Neydi also lives with them. This is a family after my own heart! What makes them so unique is that they are really a large family when you consider that Juan’s brothers live right next door and their homes are connected by their backyards.
That is something that I know Edgar would love. To have his whole family right here with us but in their own place. It would be great! For me that is what makes the Jiménez Family La Familia de Hoy. After all you all know how much my family is in fact La Familia de Hoy. For those who do not know we consist of myself and hubby, my mother, my uncle, my two beautiful step children and the twins whom I adopted. They are the result of an affair my hubby had and the mother did not want them.
The fact that none of the children are biologically mine doesn’t bother me. They are mine in every sense of the word and yes we are a little different in how our family began but that is okay. Today there are so many different types of families. We are a La Familia de Hoy because we love one another. We may go through a lot but in the end we are there for one another.
What do you think makes a La Familia de Hoy?
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Head over, check out the finalist and vote for your favorite La Familia de Hoy.
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I think you are right about it doesn’t matter how the family get’s it’s start. I think a family is what you make of the love around you. Every family is a little different. That’s ok in my book.
Thank you for sharing more about your family as well as the Jimenez family. I was curious if you had kids I knew about the stepchildren but I didn’t know about the twins. If you are raising them then they are your kids. I think more and more families today look like yours and the Jimenez family with extended family mememers living with them.
I think they are. My brother actually lives right across the street form his in-laws and they love it. The twins are my blessing after trying so hard and not being able to have one of mine own. My stepchildren are a blessing in that they taught me how to be a mom.
Lives are so interesting. My own family is rather crazily built (not my immediate family but my parents and extended). I always felt like I needed a white board and market to explain the relationships to new friends. You are really a special person to embrace these children so completely – that’s a real mother.
Modern families really are unique these days. My family is blended with 3 children from my previous marriage and 3 with my husband now. I never ever think of all the kids not being brothers and sisters…completely. Never crosses my mind at all. They are all ours. I always wondered if I could completely and fully accept a stepchild as my own…really mine. I think I could have if the situation was reversed. My husband had a hard time with it because he was younger than me and did not bring children into the mix. I think accepting any child as your own is just a gift of patience and love and those children are lucky to have that instinctive protection and love towards any child. I am like that too but know not all people are.
This is great! The Familia de Hoy is so diverse that it’s hard to put a description on it. I love hearing about cultural integration and a broader acceptance of it. We still have a long way to go, but I think we’re slowly making progress.
Also, I forgot to mention that I voted for the Jiminez family. 🙂