Warsaw Mommy Blog

Hi Jowita!
Here’s a little shout-out to a friend of mine back in Toronto: a writer, a photographer, a Mom and a stunning brunette. Oh. And Polish!

As promised, here is the gift Max made me for Mother’s Day, hanging up on the wall:

And here are the flowers that greeted me at 6:00 on Wednesday morning, delivered to my bed by a delighted 3.5 year old:

Sometimes I am discouraged and overwhelmed by just how hard it is to be a Mom… but [...]

So, yesterday was Mother’s Day in Poland (remember how I said it’s celebrated on May 26th, no matter what day of the week that may fall on?). So since it was a Wednesday, there was (a) no sleeping in (b) no day with the family (c) no lovely brunch or fuss or whatever.
But! Max woke [...]

Ooooh, here, Mommy! Here! For you! I love sharing. Especially a delicious crispy corn puff thing that has the consistency and flavour of styrofoam at the best of times, but which I have dropped on the floor (only twice, though), and stomped on and slobbered all over and gnawed on and which now has the [...]

This honkin’ tin of Wedel real chocolate chip hot chocolate was my Valentine’s Day gift from the sweet man I married. The light milk chocolate chips are specially made to melt into whipped cream and milk over a low flame; it’s quite the calorie bomb (the milk is 3.2% and the cream is 36%) but [...]