After years of sitting in offices reading blogs, Maggie Cheung became a stay-at-home mom to Jackson in May 2007. She admits her diaper-changing, playground-going, spoon-feeding lifestyle affords considerably less time for blog reading, but she infinitely prefers it to commutes and cubicles. Maggie is married to Phillip, The Devastatingly Handsome Chinese Man, and when they aren't coaxing the boy to eat his dinner, they are hunched over their respective laptops at the dining room table. Maggie strongly believes in the parenting philosophy known as Whatever Works, even if her personal website is all about detailing her many failings in this area. She hopes to do a better job of not freaking out with her second baby, a daughter, who arrived in September 2008. Visit Mighty Maggie's blog.
For this LAST POST I thought I might write, you know, a RETROSPECTIVE. It's been a while, after all, I have 200% more children than I did when I started, and maybe I have learned a thing or two. Read Full Post
I forgot how hard this was. Even when you know it could be worse? It's still hard. Take a look at this picture from Christmas. Do you see what those eyes and those dark circles underneath are saying? They're saying I AM SOOOOOO TIIIIIIIIIREDDDDD. Read Full Post
I know I'm supposed to be all HOLIDAYSANTALIGHTSCANDY!!!PRESENTS!!! but at T Minus Three Days Before Christmas I'm a teensy weensy bit, um, done. [Ducks.] Anyone else? I mean, I love Christmas, I really truly do, but I'm just a little TIRED, a little COOKIED-OUT. I can't believe I just said that, but it's true! I'm ready to open those presents and get over the bummed out feeling when I realize for the umpteenth Christmas in a row that my present for Phillip is lame-o and start looking forward to my ladies' weekend away at the end of January. Sun! Quiet! Sleeping through the night!
Whenever Phillip is away I spend a lot of time thinking about single parents. How do they DO this? I mean, I do it. I don't do it WELL, but I do it and it gets done and honestly, the anticipation of a business trip is so much worse than the actual trip. But to do this on a regular basis? I'd go mad. Sometimes I start thinking about moms whose husbands are deployed and ugh, just TYPING that makes me want to sob. Read Full Post
She continued to quote the people who've been involved in her baby's first month of life: the night nurse at the hospital where she gave birth, relatives, a nurse at the pediatrician's office, people from work. So many people who've said innocuous things, unless you are a First Time Mom, in which case those "harmless" comments destroy your will, your hope, your self-confidence. I was so angry on her behalf, ready to do some serious shin kicking.
Four years and three kids later, I know a lot of those moments and comments aren't immediate Bawling Triggers. Sometimes I even say them myself, WHICH IS AWFUL, I KNOW. But there are still things that get to me and set me off. Things like... Read Full Post
I may be eating my Thanksgiving in Port Angeles this year, but that is the ONLY Twilighty thing about my holiday. May I present a few other reasons to be thankful this is the case? Read Full Post
How many of you, when you stub your toe and let out a scandalously satisfying swear word in front of your kid, think to yourselves, "Eh! He won't remember that anyway!" Don't lie - I KNOW it's not just me. Read Full Post
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