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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.


Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 13:54
by Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie
Jack and I go grocery shopping once a week and it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how you go grocery shopping with a baby. Like, REAL shopping, where you come home with fourteen bags, not just the two or three that will fit in the basket under your stroller. One day I brought my wrap along and voila! Two hands! Free to push a cart! It was a whole new world, people. I could go grocery shopping. WITH A BABY. Read Full Post
Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 07:33
by Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie
I try to be a conscientious mom. Before my son was born I read the entire Internet, educating myself on such mysterious topics as breastfeeding and newborn sleep patterns and what kind of detergent I should use to wash all the tiny clothes I received at my baby shower. My husband and I diligently researched cribs and carseats and bottles. I spent hours reading about baby carriers, polled my friends about bedtime routines, worried over whether I should put a bumper in the crib. Read Full Post
Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 20:36
by Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie

At first we thought it was just the holidays. You know. Nonexistent schedule, tons of people, too much time in the car, going to bed too late. "It’s the holidays," we told ourselves. "Things will go back to normal."

Then we thought it was a little body that can't stop moving, but doesn't actually go anywhere. That must be frustrating, right? To work really really hard to reach the toy just out of your grasp, only to scoot yourself backwards across the floor? I don’t know about you, but that would definitely put me in a sour mood. 

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Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 07:00
by Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie
Has the Christmas season driven you to therapy yet? No? Just me?

I am a bit of a nutcase this time of year anyway (see: The Christmas Party and The Local Weather Forecast of Perpetual Blah.) And even if, when I say "therapy" I mean "eating all the leftover Christmas cookies in one sitting, even if I promised to throw them out and permanently remove the word 'cookie' from my vocabulary", it's still a rough time of year.

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Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 07:00
by Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie
Every December my husband and I throw a Christmas party. As soon as the last bit of turkey evacuates the fridge, I turn into a crazed party planner wielding rubber cement and taper candles and scaring the baby half to death with the KitchenAid mixer.

Oh yes, the baby.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 17:52
by Maggie Cheung of Mighty Maggie

Hello Parenting Peeps!

I'm the new girl around here and I've put a lot of thought into how I want to introduce myself. I woke up this morning thinking, "Gah! Must write! Must be brilliant and eloquent! Must convey gorgeousness and fabulosity via blog post!" If I hadn’t had a seven-month-old taskmaster hollering at me from his crib I would have rushed right to the computer and hammered it out. But the hollering was distracting, as well as the half-asleep conversation with my husband that went something like this:

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