My “Work” and “Work-Life” Struggles as a Stay-at-Home-Mom
The other day when I dropped my son off to daycare, the husband of the lady who runs the daycare asked me, “So, did you get a job yet?” I may have mentioned to him a couple weeks ago that…
Stay-at-Home-Mom Burnout
Ever experienced one of those days when you could barely stand up, your feet ready to melt under the weight of a body getting crushed by its own weight? Shoulders aching with pain like you have been lifting 25 pounds…
Hard Choices
“I’ll miss you there, Mommy,” he said, with a sad look in his beautiful eyes and with inverted lips which only accentuated his little puffy cheeks. It broke my heart. Why was I doing this, again? To feed my own…
The Unspeakable, Spoken: Why is this so tough?
I really wish wine did it for me. Isn’t wine supposed to help deal with motherhood, if all those memes are to be believed? Nothing really works for me. I don’t smoke. I don’t really drink…now, I like the idea…
Thoughts during the lifecycle of a sick child
TJ had fever last week. Pretty much all day. It was a fever that started out of nowhere on Thursday evening, lasted all day Friday, give or take a few hours working off of the strength of the medication, and…
The Most Dramatic Change I Ever Made
Submitted to an essay competition in September 2016 – This was my first time writing such a personal essay and my first time submitting one to a competition. Of course, I didn’t win but the writing exercise was well worth…
10 Reasons Why Having Two Kids Makes Me Feel Guilty
(Originally written on February 22, 2017. Some of the specifics have changed in the 3 months that have passed since then but I have kept the same content so I know what it was back then even though I am…
Here’s Why I don’t care about Mother’s Day this Year
Is breakfast in bed a typical beginning to your Mother's Day morning? What about gifts, flowers, candy...the whole shebang? Hmm...
Toddlerhood to Boyhood…The Inevitable Transition
Am I ready for my child's transition into boyhood when he was just a little toddler not that long ago?
Why I Am Sometimes Envious of Parents with One Kid
I know. I am committing parenting harakiri by speaking the unspoken, writing the unwritten, and by even thinking the unthinkable. Honestly, though, there are times when I have been envious of those with only 1 kid and particularly of those where…
Giving Kids the Space to Fall
As parents of multiple kids know, picking your favorite child is an impossible task. It is just not done. Now you may have a favorite kid in your head but you don’t voice that preference out loud. The famous Indian-Canadian…
In Case You Missed Them…Top Posts of 2016
Picking one’s favorite post is never an easy task. Thankfully, posts aren’t kids and no post is going to nurse a wounded ego should I not choose it for whatever reason. Then again, living with a toddler and an infant where…
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