Hello! I'm Mama Loca, blog author of La Mama Loca where I blog about our family life, adoption, and moving our family from the mid-west to Puerto Rico.
Our move to Puerto Rico is what lead me to starting 'talk conmigo'. We have now lived in Puerto Rico for just over a year! Mi esposo, Papa Loco, is from PR, and after 11 years in the mid-west, he felt the need to come home.
Our children (yes, there really are 5) are all Hispanic, however, their bio families were from Mexico descent. Our older three children (Smarty Pants, Sweet Thing, and Drama Mama) came to us knowing only Spanish. B/c SP was about to start Kindergarten, we started speaking to the kids in mostly English, while still keeping some of the Spanish.
By the time SP started school, he felt like speaking Spanish was a bad thing, therefore, he wanted to drop Spanish nearly completely. This sadly happened all too easily and carried over to the girls as well. With all their friends speaking only English, school speaking only English, and most of our family (my side) speaking only English, their Spanish fluency soon disappeared.
With the move to Puerto Rico, we knew we'd need to beef up our Spanish once more. It has continued to be a harder change than I once envisioned. However, we continue to make progress. Poco a poco!
This blog will highlight some of our efforts to bring español back into our daily lives!
Gracias!
La Mama Loca
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