Mom Nation

Looking around the toy-crowded room, hearing all the animated chatter, I feel like I am home. Only it is not my home but that of a play date. My two-year-old and four-year-old daughters are running crazy with their friends. My eyes drink in their delight. I hope I have learned to change my background for [...]

Mamas, hands up if you have any kind of guilty mommy feelings throughout your days? Yup, that is what I thought. I did a little unofficial poll last week after a chat on twitter about a mama wanting to have a glass of wine and feeling guilty about it because she is also breastfeeding. The [...]

While chatting with @AccustomedChaos on twitter one night, I came to the conclusion that droopy boobs are my future.  I’m a 36C, very average busted woman.  Not too big, not too small.  And no where near as full as they use to be.  We chatted about how we both, always, wear a bra.  Yes, I [...]

Okay, I know I wrote a blog post about how much I wanted an iPad, but I wouldn’t give my kidney for it. You know who would? A 17 year old kid in Shanghai. A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, [...]

Kids can be a great barometre for a parents behaviour. Case in point… So the other day I was driving my kids to my parents house after school. It is where they go a couple times a week after school. I drop them off on my way to work. Driving on the highway at that [...]

I am the mom who cried wolf. About a week ago, I watched Little T yell at our German Shepherd. I told her not to raise her voice to the dog and shook my head. Why would she yell? Where did she pick this up? When Little T takes too long to get her shoes [...]

Motherhood. A time of great joy and happiness and wonder and also a time of great sacrifice. A time when you really discover what your body and mind can endure and what you really need in your life. I thought about this throughout my day yesterday and came up with my list of What Mama [...]

A dear friend of mine just had her first baby…a little boy who has the most amount of hair I’ve EVER seen on a newborn. I was fortunate to see her and her DS within hours of him being born, and already it was obvious that she’s clearly a mom. She wasn’t worried about “breaking” [...]

My inaugural post here at Mom Nation! I am in the company of such brilliant and talented women, I can’t help but be flattered and a little intimidated! As far as motherhood goes, I’m a pretty fresh face. In less than 10 days my little guy will be 6 months old. All at once my [...]

Before becoming a mom, I believed that as soon as as a woman gives birth, they become crafty and instinctively know how to bake and knit.  I figured there was a magic mom ‘thing’ that happened while you were pushing out a baby. You became wise. Well, I have a 2 year old and still don’t know how to [...]