Family is amazing….Latin family is even more amazing…but do they ever really understand? I have always had to choose between my immediate family, being my husband and two children, and my extended family. My huge, massive, extended family. Every weekend there is an event. A baptism, a wedding, a quinceanera, a graduation, a funeral..I mean…it [...]
Adios San Diego – The Continuation of a hard Transition
April 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
La Llorona All of the stress and planning from the move made my time limited to spend with friends and family. I must say; thank God it was a CONUS move with no kids in tow. I applaud all of you milspouses who have relocated time and again with lots more baggage. There was a family [...]
Adios San Diego: A Latina Milspouse Tale of her First PCS Move
February 12, 2012 By 3 Comments
Las Preubas de Daddy I met my husband on his first tour of duty in San Diego. I am a San Diego native and knew that military boys were not going to make my Papa happy. The good thing was that my husband (before we married) passed my Daddy’s very many tests. My dad’s tests [...]
JobPadHQ Helps Military Spouses Find Jobs with Free Limited Time Subscription
September 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It is a tough job market out there, and I argue that it is even harder for military spouses. We have to reinvent ourselves with every PCS move and are forced to leave behind jobs and careers that we worked hard to get and retain. Add into the mix a crippling 9.1% unemployment rate and [...]
Are your Kids Bilingual?
August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I admit it. My kids are not bilingual and it KILLS me. It was not a problem at first in my family because we were stationed far away from home and there were not that many latinos in our community. My husband is not Latino, and he deployed to Iraq when our first born was [...]
Latina Military Wives
July 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Latinas make a huge portion of the military wife population. I love it when I run into a Latina military wife and we automatically connect. Not to say that I only connect with Latinas – that is far from the truth – but there is an undeniable cultural connection. For instance, when I met one [...]
I am here, and I am Proud
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I finally did it. I started a blog for Latina military wives. I started Spouse Sprite Latina because sometimes I just want to be able to throw in some Spanglish into my posts over at Spouse Sprite without having to explain myself. Explaining myself is something I am used to, especially being a Navy wife [...]
