Mompreneur Musings: The Quest For Balance

I hear that getting some type of stomach bug is par for the course when traveling in the Far East. I was no exception. No more details, enough said. Antibiotics are an amazing thing, but in addition to killing off the harmful bacteria, they also get rid of the good bacteria. Did you know that [...]

After a phenomenal trip with my husband and my parents traveling the “Silk Road” from China to Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan, I am happy to be home. It was fascinating to visit a part of the world where I could barely form the sounds that make up Mandarin, much less begin to read the characters. [...]

So I just read that there are reports of a Swiss restaurant owner who is going to substitute 75% of the cow’s milk he uses, with BREAST MILK.
In response to this, PETA wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s, asking them to switch from cow’s milk to breast milk in all their ice cream production.
Don’t [...]

I love fish.  Fish is delish!
But it’s even better when you know where it was caught.
During the last six months or so, I’ve noticed a wonderful change at my local supermarkets: all of the prewrapped fish in the cooler case was labeled with its country of origin.  Things like that really get me excited, which [...]

Nowadays, you can’t swing a dead cat without bumping into something about Sarah Palin.
She is absolutely EVERYWHERE, and while the media frenzy is starting to die down a little, we’re about to enter the toughest part of the campaign.  I’ve seen a lot of reports focusing on her very generic answers about foreign policy, on [...]

Codliver oil.
I still vividly remember those mornings back in grade school, wolfing down my breakfast hoping that if I ate fast enough, Grandma would forget to take that little bottle out of the fridge.
Most mornings, Grandma outsmarted me.  When I had my guard down, she’d press my little body up against the fridge, force a [...]

The other day, I was visiting my 1-year-old nephew Omar.  He was eating these weird, puffy little cookies that dissolve in your mouth; they are supposed to develop self-feeding skills in toddlers.  (My nephew weighs over 30 lbs, so I think he’s got the self-feeding thing down pat, but whatever.)  The label prominently reports that [...]

I love the simplicity with which children look at life. My four-year-old daughter knows she lives in a town located in the state of Massachusetts and that these places are located on a planet called Earth which looks like the blow-up ball that her grandmother gave her. She also knows that mommy and daddy are [...]

Is My Daughter Turning Into Me? My mother tells a story that when I was about four years old I snuck into the kitchen, moved a chair, climbed onto the counter, and snuck some Mallowmar cookies (a graham cracker with a marshmallow on top – all covered in chocolate). According to my mother, she only [...]

Okay, so how can there be any negatives associated with a vacation? Easy, try running a small, growing company where if you take time off, there isn’t a large enough staff to spread your work around so as not to overload any one person. What has this meant for me? It means that for the [...]