Hapa Mama is Born!

After months of talking about this, I am finally sitting down to create this blog of mine. The boys are off on a walk with my mom, who is attempting to comandeer the double jogging stroller for the first time, so I'm going to take a few minutes to introduce myself and my world.

I am a 34-year old Taiwanese American woman married to white man. We have two little hapa boys (hence the name of this blog) and I stay home full-time to take care of them. You have seen me — or someone like me — pushing a shopping cart at Costco, clapping my hands at yet another Gymboree class, and chugging lattes at Peet's. The reactions I get when I tell people what I do are quite varied:

So, you haven't gone back to work yet?

Oh, I have to work.

Good for you! Why bother having kids if you just dump them off at daycare?

When do you get to do things without the kids?

My life is a mixture of laughter, boredom, frustration, daydreams about the day when my boys don't need me every minute, wishing they could stay babies forever, envy of women who manage to have the career and the children, guilt that I am not doing my part to support the family, and thankfulness that we are managing to live the life we have chosen.

Check back often, and take a look inside the world of a Hapa Mama...