Parenting

French physician Albert Schweitzer proclaimed in 1931 that, “pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself”.

This week, we talked to Padmaja, a first-time mom from India living with her little girl and husband in the Seattle area. As a mom of a daughter myself, our conversation with her got me thinking, once again, about the “princess culture” unique to our country.

We are proud to present our two part series these next few weeks about “building a family”. Amanda absolutely captivated us when we talked to her at Mamacon 2013. 

Her open, gracious and humble style so beautifully illustrates what it means to be a family. When dealing with this or any issue, we feel that it’s so important to hear stories like our own…..to know that someone else got to the other side and not always in the way that they dreamed of.

From Hawaii, to Vietnam and finally to the Seattle area, Amanda retells the story of bringing all of the pieces of her family together.

As the holidays quickly approach, we all think about family and travel- either to get to or away from it!

Our story this week comes from author, world-traveler and dad-John Higham.

We first met Nikki Knepper two and a half years ago at our first Mamacon conference in Bellevue, WA. She’s made the trek from the mid-west to the northwest twice now to talk about her blog and her latest book. Nikki, a Chicago girl born and raised, is one of a few very successful mommy bloggers (think major book deal).

We are thrilled to have a new "home" for all of our Homefront Chronicles short segments, longer shows, pictures and musings. For the very first time we get to blog regularly about the awesome people we meet and record and the fascinating topics we research for our pieces.