I'm the mom of four kids under 7, which sometimes makes me feel like that's all I am. Although my kids are one of my most important and valued blessings, I am so much more than "just a mom." I'm a woman in a day and age when being a woman is perceived by some as weakness and "so last century." I'm half Mexican in the above mentioned day and age in which politicians in auditoriums, courtrooms, and forums scream at each other about why my dad's people should or should not work

Maybe I should just go ahead and admit that I'm not a fashion forward person. I didn't get the Jennifer Aniston haircut until, like, five years after its debut. In high school, I resisted wearing capris until I saw at least half the female school population wearing them. I bought my first pair of skinny jeans only a short three years ago because I was in such deep denial about the fact that they were even popular, that I insisted on pretending they didn't exist. And I'm prett