Family/Familia Archives - By Claudya https://byclaudya.com/category/family-familia/ Funny San Francisco Latina Blogger Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:47:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/byclaudya.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/favicon-white-background.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Family/Familia Archives - By Claudya https://byclaudya.com/category/family-familia/ 32 32 125928345 How a DNA Test Made Me Question My Latinidad https://byclaudya.com/how-a-dna-test-made-me-question-my-latinidad/ https://byclaudya.com/how-a-dna-test-made-me-question-my-latinidad/#respond Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:30:52 +0000 https://byclaudya.com/?p=37731 How a DNA Test Made Me Question My Latinidad

What am I if I'm not what I've always thought I was?

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Not to brag or anything, but I happen to be married to the world’s greatest dad. I know it’s a bold claim, but it’s true.

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1. They start begging for love like you are some kind of love miser.

All day long you give ‘em smooches and snuggles and they wipe off the kisses and push you away, but as soon as it’s time to go to sleep they start begging for love.

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The girls are headed back to school. It’s time, but I’m kind of sad to say goodbye to the summer. Why? Because we did nothing this summer and it was AWESOME.

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As a proud public school mom of two elementary school children, I am excited to be partnering with Revolution Foods on this sponsored post to share with you how they are making school lunches healthier for kids in San Francisco and nationwide.

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Valentine’s Day this year was on a Thursday, then on Friday my eldest wasn’t feeling well and my hubby had plans with some friends, so we had to wait until the weekend to celebrate our family Valentine’s Date.

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This post is in partnership with Nick Jr.

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, which is the perfect time to celebrate Latino culture.

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My eldest turned 10 this weekend. Un-freakin-believable. How? 

10 Things About My 10-Year-Old

  • This year she wanted a pound cake instead of a birthday cake.

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Last weekend, my husband’s aunt treated our family to such a wonderful gift I CAN’T EVEN! She gave the four of us a night’s stay at the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in Sacramento.

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We drive past Sea Bowl in Pacifica on our way to Half Moon Bay all the time and we’re always like, “We should go bowling sometime.”

This weekend we didn’t drive past Sea Bowl.

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In the grand scheme of my children’s milestones, I expected to get choked up about first words, first steps, first and last days of school, graduations and the like.

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I thought I would write a Mother’s Day letter to myself this year because I deserve to praise myself. I put a lot of effort into this motherhood gig and I’m not even going to pretend to humble brag, I’m going to full on brag.

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In case you don’t know who LeJuan James is, he’s a hilarious social media star that mines humor from his experiences as a Latino and creates videos that are laugh out loud relatable.

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Thank you to Comcast for inviting my daughter and me to the 16th annual Comcast Cares Day on April 22 at Sutro Elementary School in San Francisco and for sponsoring this post. 

It takes a lot to get me up early on a weekend morning because I adore sleep. Sleep makes me deliriously happy and yet, this past Saturday I got up at the crack of my pompis.

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David Brinkley of Yukon, Okla. overheard his wife, Alora, having a conversation with a friend about co-sleeping. Alora’s friend expressed surprise that Brinkley is OK with Alora co-sleeping with their children because apparently the friend’s husband would not be OK with it.

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I don’t know about you, but I spent a lot of time playing outdoors when I was a kid and I mean year-round, not just during summer breaks.

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Thank you to Jarritos and Dime Media for sponsoring this post and encouraging me to share why I think that we are #BetterTogether

I want to tell you about my multicultural love story that started WAY before my husband and I were even born.

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This post is a sponsored collaboration with JCPenney. All opinions are my own.

Let me make one thing clear before we go any further: I will NEVER tire of watching Alfonso Ribiero dance.

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My family and I got invited to stay at the KOA campgrounds in Petaluma a couple of weeks ago and the second I found out about the opportunity I was so excited.

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I’m not just one kind of mom: I’m a good mom, I’m a great mom, I’m a so-so mom and sometimes I’m a sh*tty mom.

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