The Parenting Diaries

Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen are the new member of Hollywood parents who will be having twins. Happy for them, yes, but isn’t this getting a bit suspicious? There must be fertility drugs mixed in the waters of LA!
Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, and others I have enumerated in my other blog.
IVF, which is quite common [...]

It’s Friday and I am home. In fact, I’ve been home for the last couple of days due to a national holiday (end of Ramadan festivities). I am loving every minute of it and wish I won’t have to go back to work tomorrow but that is daydreaming the impossible.
Anyway, I slept really late last [...]

My husband, who’s working for the travel industry, is invited to parties and get-togethers on a regular basis. When a new hotel is opened (since this is Dubai, a fairly new city with hotels sprouting every day) they are invited for a cocktail party to socialize with people of the same field. He asked me to [...]

Just when I was feeling really down and about to be charged with bad-mom crime, enlightenment came. I found a new mommy blog and read an inspiring post. Vered of Mom Grind has written a great article at Zen Habits - 12 Awesome Tips on how to be a great mom.
I’ve always believed that in [...]

I don’t know how long will the monster in me go. A few days more? End of this week?
I am not feeling well but still working to meet deadlines before I go on leave at the end of the month. I haven’t been going to the gym so the missing happy hormones had something to [...]

Today I am staying at home after waking up with a very bad headache, runny nose and fever. No work for me on a Saturday, unfriendly insensitive boss be damned. This mom won’t go out of bed!
But I have another boss at home who won’t hesitate in letting me know that the moment I became [...]

I learned a very important responsible parenting lesson today. This is concerning the stroller that we just bought for Pristine. She’s already 4.5 years old and yet this is the first stroller that we had. I figured that we needed one for our travel together (without daddy) next month.

We took the new stroller, an umbrella [...]

Pristine had an asthma attack at 3 am this morning. The moment she coughed and wheezed, I woke up from my sleep in a split second.
We sleep in the same room and her bed is attached to ours. She sleeps on my side so I can wake up at night to check her blanket, shirt, position - [...]

Pristine will be turning 5 at the end of this year. She’s no longer a baby and can perfectly walk by herself but I think we might need a stroller for our travel soon. Why I’m making a big fuss about this? 
We have never bought a stroller before. The day she learned to walk, there was no [...]