We love our Friday nights in! Time to break out of the mundane routine, no swimming or tae kwon do to race to, no uniforms to iron, no missing sock to find, no homework to complete and no lunches to pack. An evening to do exactly as we please. 

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Last Friday morning I caught a bus with an angry, frustrated and quite miserable looking thirty-something mother of two boys who might just be about the same age as the Fab 2. As we boarded the bus, the mother quite publicly and might I say rather untastefully shared her opinion about the bus driver with her children, these very words , ” Oh f***, its that a****** bus driver again”. Charming! My brain (which is usually on snooze mode at that hour patiently awaiting…

I met Sofia in high school, amidst all that uncomfortable, teen spirit stuff. I remember her as fiery, honest, confident and a nurturer. In our group of 4-5, Sofia was perhaps the most up-front and boisterous personality. She of course had the added benefit of having been raised amongst brothers and thus knew all about being rough and tumble. She was(is) smart and very sporty. She was also one of my closest friends at 14. When we weren’t crushing over our very intellectual computers teacher,…

We all have them , moments that make us want to cringe and squirm, when we can’t help but wish the ground would open up and swallow us . Moments we always look back and remember as “That Awkward Moment” .

Well here’s a few that come to mind to add to the awkward moments hall of shame :

1.When you are in the office kitchen toasting something and the new recruit is a metre away using the microwave , you’ve never been introduced and therefore have nothing to say to them.…

As a writer, it is an absolute pleasure to learn that your words inspire your readers and generate a fresh stream of thought.But it is exhilarating to learn that a reader was so inspired by a recent post that they decided to write in to Mumchic themselves. It is at times like these when the entire Mumchic experience feels surreal, there really is no other way to describe it.

What better way of saying thank you than to share with all of you what this wonderful reader and fan had to…