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Date Night Mama Trauma
Unlike toiling away in the rice fields in Laos, I was away from my infant for fun. Lao mothers are a part of the manual labor force in the family. Me? I left my baby and went to go drink and grind on...
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Cycle of Cultural Sleep: 5 Real Reasons for Co-Sleeping
Huh, who woulda thunk it? Co-sleeping isn’t just a thing for new-age parents to hop on the crunch wagon but actually cyclical practice of my Laotian blood because you know my grandmothers did not...
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Perks Of Being An Annoying Sick Person
I knew I caught the kids’ cold virus when a stream of ninja mucus would show up on my lip with no warning. My nose was running so much that I could not blow my nose fast enough so it would just keep...
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That Damn Children’s Book That Made Us Cry But Not From Reading It
For three years since we were gifted a children’s book by a dear friend, GH and I had never been able to end the reading with dry eyes. For me, I blamed it on hormones— pregnancy, breastfeeding, or my...
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Texts With #EthnicGrandma: She Sure Goat Jokes
*Update: I have since changed it to #EthnicGrandma on twitter and Instagram since so many of you have the same experiences with your kids’ grandparents. My mom, the -Noys’ Mae Tao, has learned to text...
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Inappropriate Couple Halloween Costume
The underage group had no idea who we even were. I guess if your birth year has two 9’s in it then you wouldn’t have any clue why we had a bloody bag of a human sex organ. The sex organ was fake and so...
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Now This Is My Kinda Parent Foreplay, I Mean, Date Night
After one date night gone wrong, I put far too much thought into arranging a night for myself just for the sake of a night to myself. Just me and my ballroom dance shoes. Too much thought usually means...
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Co-Sleeping With The Enemy: 6 Reasons Why I Don’t Sleep With My Husband
No one ever tells you the saddest memory about an apartment home birth. Just nine months after Lanoy was born in our first apartment home as a family of four, we left lots of memories behind when we...
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I Was The Worst Kind Of Instagram Mom
Don’t worry, I’m not drunk-blogging this one although it was a nice buzz of confidence to deactivate my Instagram, which I started in 2010 (yep, right when it launched). I do feel a little guilty for...
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How Lao Parents Avoid Buying Children’s Clothing
Growing up Lao, our clothes were either hand-me-downs, thrift, or too big. Too big because my mom would buy us the next size(s) up so “we’d grow into them.” I would be wearing size 9 women’s shoes in...
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