Bloghopping Haunts

3 Boys & a Lady

A Brit Different
Adventures of the Purple Princess and Badness Jones
Airing Dirty Laundry
Another Good Thing
Beachmama
Better than a Playdate
Borderline Bonkers
Busy Dad
Caffeine Court
Cheaty Monkey
Circling the Square Table
Cherry Extract
Classy Chaos
Curiosity Killer
Don Mills Diva
Etc. Etc. Etc
Fancy Pantsy
Fear and Parenting in Las Vegas
Frog and Toad are Still Friends
From the Cheap Seats
Gina again and again
Green is her New Blog
Half-Past Kissin' Time
Heidi's Notes from Vermont
Her Bad Mother
Huckdoll
I Promise Not To Laugh at the Seance
I'd Rather be Blogging
If Mom says OK
Imaginary Binky
Immoral Matriarch
It's a Blog Eat Blog World
It's all about Balance
Jaden's Steamy Kitchen
Just Katstuff
Just Miss
Just One Look
Kailani's Island
Kami's Klopchyck
Keep on Truckin'
Kim's Photography Blog
Knatolee
Life as I Know It
Mattress Police
Melinda Zook
Mel's Metaphors
Mom Generations
Momisodes
Mommy Always Wins
Mrs. Mogul
O Mighty Crisis
Okay Fine Dammit
On a Limb
On the Upside
Persona of a Princess
Pointless Drivel
Postcards from the Mothership
Random Thoughts & Musings from the Island
Rimarama
Rock and Drool
Sanity Interrupted
Sarcastic Mom
Secret Agent Mama
Secrets of a Black Heart
See Kori Rant
Seeking Sanity
Simon Says
Slouching Past 40
Spuddy Buddy
The Rocking Pony
The Petite Gourmand
Thinking About
Thoughts and Stuff
Viking Conquest
Whiskey in my Sippy Cup
Whoorl
Xbox4nappyrash
Zoe's Dad

Are you missing from here? Cuz, yeah, I was drinking when I did this. Let me know ;).

More About Karen MEG

(updated May 2010)

I don't know where to start, ironic given that this blog is pretty much all about me.

I'm a mom of two in suburban Canada, who transitioned from busy career gal to stay-at-home mom and now occasional work-at-home-when-her-kids-let-her mom. The decision to stay home while the kids were little was a no-brainer. I was a happy consequence of the company merger movement. And alas, 5 years later, I took the plunge and dove right back into a full-time work-out-of-home-needing-more-help-than-I-care-to-admit career when opportunity came knocking a bit too loudly.

But I'm still living in the burbs and trying to stay urban, a minivan driving soccer mom in denial. There I’ve said it, now let’s move on.

I started this blog on a sleep-deprived morning when my daughter was about four months old and I'd been home with the kids for, well, about four months. It was meant to be, as most mom blogs are, an online journal to capture those mommy moments that are like a feather in the wind.

Whoever said that staying at home wasn't easy was right. But I still wouldn't change a thing. And these guys complete me:

The Boy: L, L-boy, L-meister, my first miracle. You'll get a sense that I'm kinda proud of him. He's one of these kids who was born empathetic, he's aware of himself and of others and especially me. He gets me. And he's got his Mom's back... just ask his Dad.

The Girl: Little G, the girlie, my princess, the Diva. My second miracle, who we had to work extra hard for. But she was well worth it. Because she's cute as a button, and although she's trying at times (many times), she knows that "we still love her even if she's been naughty" (yeah, I just quoted her).

The Man: The hubs, Ian. What can I say about a guy who will pimp my blog to his friends and laugh at an odd post even if he's the butt of the joke, all the while fighting my laptop screen for face time with me. He's my rock, who's succeeding at carving out that 8-pack that he had when we met in our 20s. You'll read the occasional 6-pack joke because yeah, we did meet at the brewery.

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This is the me behind the mask. I'm really quite reserved in person, to the point that many of my friends have told me that they thought I was an ice-cold bitch before they actually talked to me. But once we got drinking it was a different story.

So yeah, I like alcohol. And lucky for me, I do have substantial alcohol dehydrogenase in my system, so I don't go beet red when I drink. The only thing is: you just can't shut me up.

Welcome, and I hope you stay for a while.