WHAT TEN YEARS OF MOTHERHOOD HAVE TAUGHT ME

WHAT TEN YEARS OF MOTHERHOOD HAVE TAUGHT ME

I was the perfect mom before I had kids. Oh, my kids will sleep through the night – nope. Oh, we’ll never snack in the car – here comes the crumbs. Over the past ten years those little babes-turned-toddlers-turned-kids continued to have an immense power to toss my...
Floating Keeps Me Sane

Floating Keeps Me Sane

So I fell asleep floating in this. It might have been a mere second of slumber before I came back to reality. But for one amazing hour, my reality was that of pure relaxation, quiet, solitude and feeling as light as a feather soaking in a tub. This isn’t your typical...
Mommy Hours and CBC’s Workin’ Moms

Mommy Hours and CBC’s Workin’ Moms

It was my first week back after mat leave and as I was fast-walking out the door at 5 p.m. on my race to daycare pick up, a colleague, whom I hadn’t seen in a year, greeted me with “oh right, you’re on mommy hours now.” Mommy hours?! You mean the schedule where...