Demands On Family Life Abroad (2)

February 3, 2010

Financial pressure: Contrary to the views of people back at home in Nigeria that those abroad are swimming in money, the reverse is actually the case.  There are lots of opportunities to make the money, don’t get me wrong.  However, for anybody coming from Nigeria without having had any form of education abroad, then you [...]

Read the full article →

Happy Birthday To Me, And Many Many Thanks To God!

February 1, 2010

I turned 32 yesterday.  Hippie!  Happy birthday to me.  Yep! I said my age.  I really don’t understand why we, women hide our ages.  Is it because we think we actually look older than we really are and so we’re kind of embarrassed about letting people know how old we really are? Or is it [...]

Read the full article →

Demands On Family Life Abroad (1)

January 29, 2010

America isn’t very family friendly.  I didn’t quite understand it until I moved here myself (check out my post ‘Never say ‘never’“).  Parents  abroad are under pressure and faced with a lot of stress that parents in Nigeria do not have to deal with.  I like to think of these stress and pressure as of 2 types: [...]

Read the full article →

The Dash

January 28, 2010

By Linda Ellis   I read of a reverend who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning … to the end. He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said [...]

Read the full article →

The Haitian Tragedy

January 25, 2010

I hate tragedies.  I am more of a want-to-be-happy-all-the-time person.  I hate having to witness sad events.  I particularly hate burials. Most of the time, when someone I know has lost a loved one, I find myself almost avoiding that person because I just feel so inadequate and helpless and wouldn’t know what to say/ do.  I know [...]

Read the full article →

What Would You Have – A Boy Or Girl First?

January 23, 2010

I always said I wanted to have a baby girl first.  From my observation, families with girls first are, most of the time sane.  Sane in the sense that the rest of the crew aren’t as wild as other families where boys were born first.  In my opinion (and it’s very apparent in my own [...]

Read the full article →

Abdul Mutallab’s “Don’t cry for me, Nigeria”

January 20, 2010

This is so hilarious I totally had to share it. Enjoy!   embedded by Embedded Video Download Video Share/Bookmark

Read the full article →

The Multi-tasking Mom

January 12, 2010

Mothers are wonderful beings.  We are capable of doing things that the average ‘man’ cannot do.  We, women are called the weaker sex, but in so many ways, we are the stronger one.  As women, we have this ability to multi-task, , and it is even more sharpened when we become mothers.  We can handle [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →