About

Downtown Mama is a blog that follows me and my little ones, as we figure out how to have a (good) life in the big city.

I started the blog about 6 weeks into my first mat leave with Archer as a way of organizing recipes and meal plans fed by my mom - the original Downtown Mama - who insisted that it was possible to have fun even though I was sleep deprived, constantly nursing and confused about just about everything when it came to babies. My mom would force me to get up, put on something nice and do something. And somehow, this did make it all a little easier.

After taking a break when I went back to my job with iVillage Canada, Sweetspot and Branchez-Vous, I started blogging again just before giving birth to our second sweetie, Isla.

I see this blog as an extended love letter to Archer and Isla and hope that when they grow up this serves as a record of all the fun we had and the absolute joy they bring to my life -- even if they never ever let me sleep through the night. ;)