We love celebrating Latino and bicultural families every single day, so we’re thrilled to partner with Johnson & Johnson and Univision in their quest to find “La Familia de Hoy” — a modern, authentic and active family that represents a los hispanos and shares our passions.

The three familias that are in the voting stage to become “La Familia de Hoy” and spokes family for Johnson & Johnson in 2014 are:

Los Olivera

Los Jiménez

Los López

To learn more about these bellas familias and to cast your own vote, head on over now to Univision.com and just select one. It will literally take you seconds because you don’t need to register your email or any other steps. Once you vote, you also receive a selection of coupons for discounts on Johnson & Johnson Healthy Essentials products. Go here to vote now. The winning family will be revealed Dec. 21 on Sábado Gigante.

Bilingual Twitter Party!

We’ve joined a fabulous group of Latina bloggers and Latina Bloggers Connect (disclosure: I own this company) to celebrate “La Familia de Hoy” with a bilingual Twitter party and we really hope you can join us! If you’ve never attended a Twitter party, this is a perfect chance to dive into one!

Date: Thursday, December 5th

Time: 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET

Where: On Twitter with the hashtag #LaFamiliaDeHoy. You can use this link  for easy access starting now: http://twubs.com/LaFamiliadeHoy

Co-Hosts:

@eileenccampos  @elianatardio @mcontemporanea @sassymamainla

@smashbravoteam  @spanglishbaby

Moderators: @lbconnect @laflowers (me!!)

Sponsor: Johnson & Johnson

Prizes:

100 gift card for FIVE winners!

To be eligible to win, you must join the party and participate during the hour with an original tweet (RT’s not eligible) using the #LaFamiliaDeHoy hashtag. Five winners will be selected at random from all eligible tweets and announced throughout the hour. For full Terms and Conditions click here.

Pre-Party Prizes! RSVP and help us spread the word and WIN!

We want this fiesta to start right now, so we have a $25 gift card for four winners. To enter the #LaFamiliadeHoy pre-party giveaway all you have to do is RSVP with your Twitter handle via the Rafflecopter widget below and send out a tweet inviting your friends to join us.

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Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. All opinions and stories are our own.

A few weeks ago I headed out to New York City for my annual trek to the Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) conference. It’s one of the musts in my book because I get to meet some amazing people for the first time and catch up with so many that have now become friends and an essential part of what I do on SpanglishBaby and over at Latina Bloggers Connect.

The community of Latina bloggers that I get to call mis amigas is really the backbone for much of what we do. This blogging journey is not easy at all because it requires a true commitment to see your passion through. Most bloggers do what they do out of a need to share, be part of a community and also learn and grow from the process. Very little end up being able to make a living out of it, so the monetary benefits are hardly ever the main motivator. However, we keep pushing what we do and caring every single day to be able to inspire through our words.

Thanks to Johnson & Johnson, I got the chance to sit down and talk with 26 bloggers from around the country and Puerto Rico to ask them what the phrase “Inspire Care” means to them and how they take care of themselves and others.

The more I talked with these amazing women, the more I realized that it’s essential that we constantly ask ourselves what inspires us to care, but most of all, to realize that we must always start by taking care of ourselves first. Not a concept many Latinas easily learn from their mamás since in more traditional households women are always taking care of others first.

I’ve slowly come to understand, and, admittedly it’s still against my nature to do so, to allow myself to take care of me first so that the ship can continue to sail and I can continue to give.

So now you, what does Inspire Care mean to you and how do you take care of yourself?Share with me in the comments below and we’ll make it an inspiring conversation.