This is a blog about being mom, a wife, a student, activist, feminist, Latina in the south trying to balance it all.
Here is the idea behind Mommies are People, Too. Aside from being a mom I am an activist. I volunteer for different organizations around the Atlanta are. These organization deal with either immigration issues Latino issues or women’s issues, this is important to me. And it’s what I believe to be my life’s work or my calling. I want to give this to Benjamin – I want him to know that mommy was the change she wanted to see in the world. If I do nothing else for my son I want to give that sense of community and a sense of responsibility for others. I want him to see problem and feel a sense of duty and honor in wanting to repair it. Really, I want him to grow up and be proud that his mother did not stand on the sidelines.
My mother once explained it to me after I asked her why; God gave his only son for us? Here is what she told me (I swear these words have stayed with me ever since, and it the only thing I remember of all the conversations I have had with my mother.) She told me that Jesus was here to show us how to help one another we are all brothers and sisters and we are all in it together and this is our home and like I would take care of my brother and her if they needed me. I should do that to my fellow human beings. And I want wholeheartedly for my son to have the same values and compassion.