About
After some five months of blogging, I think I’m finally realizing what my blog is about, or at least, should be about. When I started, I thought I had to have a theme. Everyone has a theme. But I didn’t have a theme. Just a full-time working mom with two kids - a five year old daughter and a one year boy - and a hubby who loves his family dearly but is even busier (way busier) than I am. I felt overwhelmed and exhausted with all I had to do, but I feel a lot less of those emotions now. And I’m actually accomplishing more. Perhaps because my baby has grown and is now sleeping through the night. I’m no longer sleep deprived. Perhaps because writing about my feelings of exhaustion released me from those feelings… Whatever, I’m no longer about overwhelmed and exhausted.
The thoughts that have been occupying my mind deal more with cross-cultural reflections. How raising kids in the United States is in some instances different from the environment I was raised in Nigeria. I observe both the positive and the negative differences - and I wonder how to capitalize on the positive while minimizing the effects of the negative. In some other instances, they’re so similar - there are certainly issues that are common themes for both moms in the US and Nigeria and in perhaps the rest of the world.
So, I’ve changed my tagline to “Cross Cultural Parenting”. It was “A working mothers life”.
Now, about me. My name is Omowunmi. O-mo-wu-mi for those who want to attempt to pronounce it. Omie for those who want it easy. As I mentioned earlier, I have a 5 year old daughter. I call her Darling Angel. Her baby brother is Baby Brother but he’s no longer a baby. He’s now a busy toddler but for the sake of continuity, I’ll continue to call him Baby Brother. Hubby is their Adoring Father. He can’t say no to their demands…at least her demands. Baby Brother’s only demands are to be fed and to be fed.
I don’t have a lot of time on my hands, but I consider this blog a form of relaxation. It also allows me to view myself a little more objectively. If you don’t currently have a blog, consider starting one. And if not a blog, a personal journal - yeah, I’m referring to the lo/no-tech one, a pen and a notebook. I just re-started that practice after many years, after reflecting on the therapeutic effects of my blog. I keep the no-tech one for more personal reflections.
I hope you do enjoy my blog. Please leave a comment, I savor every single one (I’m pleading here) or send me a note at omie [at] womze [dot] com.
If you’re interested in reading a few West African Folktales, head over allfolktales - a site I started some two years ago.
Enjoy!
