mommy thoughts

Dealing with the stigma of food allergies

May 12, 2012

Our baby has started to eat solid food and boy does he love his food! He would say, ‘Mmmm’ with a look of delight on his face during feeding time. Since he is just starting, I am sticking to rice/oat cereals and vegetables and fruits; no condiments, spices or even salt. Nothing commercial, all made [...]

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I’m never going to have pedicure again

April 8, 2012

A month ago, I went to a salon to get an ingrown toenail clipped. I never had an ingrown toenail before and I almost never do pedicures (the last time I did was a year ago when a salon offered free service) so I really hesitated going to a salon and spend time there instead [...]

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Biracial parenting: Is he yours?

April 4, 2012

I was out with my son in the municipality clinic for his vaccination shots when suddenly, I was asked: “Is he yours?” I try not to let it bother me (as this is NOT the first time I’ve been asked when I’m out and about with either of my kids without my husband) so I [...]

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Thoughts and woes of a working mom

March 22, 2012

Hello, I am an expat mom and I have a confession to make: I’ve got something for SAHMs (stay at home moms). It’s called jealousy. If you blog – do you know that feeling of avoiding to write something so as not to sound whiny or ranty? I’ve had those days lately. I have suppressed [...]

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Where is your happy place?

March 4, 2012

I hope you don’t say, McDonalds. The husband and I, we talk a lot inside the car on our way to work. It’s one of those very few times we have uninterrupted time for each other and he clearly values it by taking (almost) all the stage time and talking about everything that comes to [...]

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Valentines 2012

February 15, 2012

So Valentines Day came and went…what did you all do? How did you celebrate it? On my way home from work yesterday, I spent almost two hours on the road home due to heavy traffic. It was unusually heavy although Dubai gets traffic at times (eased a lot after the Metro became operational). I hate [...]

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Do you speak baby?

January 6, 2012

I got this one from Facebook via my friend Abigail. I just LOVE this. According to Priscilla Dunstan, babies talk to us in their preemptive cry by using five distinctive words indicating their primal ‘needs’ and their feelings: hunger, discomfort, sleepiness, lower gas and burp. I can’t begin to write how amazing this is and [...]

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I’ve got twins, 8 years apart

January 3, 2012

Would you believe that there are two different babies in the above photos? Two photos for each. Our new baby is a spitting image of his older sister when she was a baby. They look so much alike that I am already pretty pretty sure, they’ll fight over their baby pics someday in the future [...]

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