We’re all facing a world very different than the one we were so familiar with just a few months ago. Still, Karo Arana Soto wanted to make sure that the second birthday of her two twins Mateo and Matías was just as special as it was last year when they had it. While unable to throw a big bash for her twins Zoto was still able to put on a party that was pretty memorable and impressive.

It also had a theme was pretty apt for the current times.

For her sons’ big birthday, Zoto threw a COVID-19- themed party.

To celebrate their big day, Zoto threw a smaller scale party complete with bouncers, music, games, gifts, piñata, sweets, cake, and pizza.”

“Every birthday of José Ramon [the 4-year-old brother of Mateo and Matías] and the twins celebrate with a small party with family and close friends, this year for obvious reasons we could not all be together, so we decided to make their party with the COVID theme,” Zoto explained in an interview with mitú. “So when they get older see the photos and know why we were alone on his 2nd birthday, also this pandemic only talks about the bad things that happen and what can happen, so we try to ‘disguise fears’ and turn them into a piñata and a cake, my children had a lot of fun.”

Speaking about the current situation and how her children are affecting it, Zoto says that she’s spending her days trying to make her kids feel safe.

“It’s a situation that is forcing us as parents to be more creative and patient with children, in a normal situation, the twins go to a kindergarten, José Ramon to school and parents to work, we are altogether only in the afternoon and weekends, my husband continues to work normally. I’m an independent professional, so I was able to work the home office to be able to attend to my children, it is beautiful to be with them,” Zoto told us. “I never get bored but I never rest, we had a lot of fun but also we get stressed and we all get mad at everyone, there are toys all over the house, there is never silence and twins are in the process of leaving the diaper, imagine it … hahaha, it’s crazy! My 3 children are at a very demanding age of time and attention, so it has not been easy at all.”

So far, Zoto says that her kids are actually enjoying their time in quarantine.

After all, their days are filled with a similar structure they had at school but with a lot more playtime.

I think it is wonderful for them, even when they’re so young, to get up early, go to school, and kindergarten to follow a discipline and routine are part of some of their ‘authorities’ but in quarantine,” she explained. “They get up at home a little later, they play all day, school classes and homework are only for a while and the rest of the day we play, make camps, bathe in the pool, make movies, paint and whoever we can think of, sometimes we The ideas to entertain them end and the stress begins, I think that for them the real problem will be when the quarantine ends.”

When it comes to strength and parenting, we all know that Latina mamas have it on lock. The best of our parents teach us how to be fully functional and kind human beings. Who are also capable, strong and eager to give back to the world and our own communities. Full of gratitude for the mother figures in our lives, Latinos on Twitter are already showing their love for their mamas and abuelas almost a full month before Mother’s Day! Now that’s enthusiasm.

Check out some of their experiences and words of praise below!

Because so many of us could sing the praises of the women who raised us.

Thanking god for the strength he gave my mother. She came to America not speaking English, managed to find work and kept the lights on and food in the mouths of 6 children and at one point two grand children. I’m a proud son always of an immigrant woman. I can’t ever take it easy

— Roger Tino Morales (@AykidShots) February 25, 2020

And it takes a lot of strength to me a mother, particularly one who is an immigrant.

Personally, I am inspired by the strength of my mother–a Filipino immigrant–who has fought with both solid determination and softness of compassion for a home and a better life for herself and her family. She is a woman who sees no obstacle she cannot overcome.

— Sainte Mayari 🌙 (@saintemayari) March 8, 2020

Thank you also to our mothers for ensuring we came into this world with good lewks.

I got it from my mama, and by it I mean being a big sexy Latina CUNT (yes this is my actual mother) pic.twitter.com/c2gOsAS7Uv

— 💫⭐️𝐉𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐉𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫⭐️💫 (@caprihaux) April 16, 2020

And for teaching us that no matter what to work hard.

No quiero jugar al burako con mi abuela porque siempre me gana (no, no la dejo ganar, real que juega muy piola)

— strength to endure💀 (@ladyjazchu_) April 16, 2020

Because it’s never just a game!

There’s a lot to love about our abuelas too. Because whether they are with us physically or in spirit– feel their presence.

I was always disconnected from my extended family, never having met my abuelos in Mexico and being raised here, but my brother found this pic of them from their youth. It’s comforting. I never met her but I know my abuela Carmela met me and watches me, always, and loves me still. pic.twitter.com/ffwWmr2vDk

— Vaquero Cosmico (@Soph_Cholo) April 5, 2020

So here’s to you mamas and abuelas!

Happy 90th birthday to my baby, my abuela 😂. She is basically my second mother. She raised me and took care of me my whole life. She is one of the most important people in my life, including my abuelo. My biggest… https://t.co/acj8tJEfAL

— 🌙Luna_Lucia✨ (@xoAngieMendezxo) March 31, 2020

Thanks for everything!