Category: Motherhood
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...... Read More
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? ... Read More
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 w... Read More
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 lou... Read More
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... Read More
My Favorite Moments of 2016
People love to reflect on the events of the year around this time. Somehow, being a little introspective while trying to connect the dots of how things worked out or didn’t, in the otherwise mu... Read More
On Being a Mom and Trying to Write
It’s 6:20 a.m. Late by my new standards because I would ideally like to wake up at 5:30 a.m. But you won’t find me complaining much. Wait…no you might just find me complaining a litt... Read More
Stay-at-home-Mom Anniversary: A Year in Review
Note: This is a long post. A few weeks ago, I completed one year as a stay-at-home-mom. Most first year anniversaries are marked by some kind of a special event, however small and insignifican... Read More
What Worried Me/ Worries Me About Raising a Daughter
I wished my daughter into being. I know this. I wanted a girl really, really badly to make my family complete. Not that having another boy would have made my family any less complete, but there is som... Read More
The Day My Kids and I Cried Together
No, it had nothing (or only a little) to do with the outcome of the elections in the US. The tears were neither of joy nor sorrow. Per se. The tears were of anger, frustration, helplessness, fear, unc... Read More