Mommy tales: here, there and everywhere

Blogging just about anything has become the rage nowadays. Not only do we find a lot of blogs dedicated to myriads of hobbies and interests and what have you, we also find saner ones. The saner ones of course include tried and tested topics on a lot of different advocacies such as feminism or even the state of the planet’s ecology. Readers are diverse, and of course, it’s easy to imagine that there are those wide read and game enough to read blogs like that, while others see blogging as a necessary evil, just so they know about things.

And then there are the “traditional” readers. While having an eclectic blog setup is good, one must also think of the traditional readers. The “traditional” ones are so to speak, those who still define having a good read as akin to reading articles in what they would expect and find in a book. Mom Conversations is just like that…what you’d expect in a women’s magazine, filled with details of how tos giving pointers to new moms who would like a hands on experience raising their children. There are also obligatory tips for women, mostly on taking care of themselves and feeling good about themselves as well, and consumer awareness. Because of its traditional structure, a lot of people would not be well pressed to understand everything as one would expect reading a typical blogger’s post (that read like mystical diary entries). The information is all there, laid out for everyone to see, to give readers who don’t even blog that there’s hope finding good reads beyond the library. And maybe even encourage them on to gettting blogs for themselves.

While still relatively young (few entries), Mom Conversations is still an awesome read. With a lot of parenting and mom blogs, this one surely deserves a future spot in the big blog leagues for being one of those unusually sane (traditional) blogs without trying too hard. And yes, we all do like a nice read once in a while.     

The White Queen 

Oh, Seiko!

If you happened to have cable and watched Ellen Nishiumi (way back when), chances are you’d probably understand what the (bad) pun title is all about. As someone who is interested in the Japanese culture (of course anime is just one of the things that endeared Japan to me), I have followed all those Japanese documentaries on Channel 13 relentlessly and even watched Ellen Nishiumi’s show. Romanticized my view on Japan is, I still want to go there just to see the cherry trees bloom.

Seiko’s Diary is, well, Ellen Nishiumi on blog form. Of course, this is not to say that Seiko san looks like Miss Nishiumi - but rather the fact that her blog is very colorful and shows us aspects of daily Japanese life in little snippets and what have you, just like that Oh Tokyo! show. Daily life of being a wife and mom in Japan is a plus, moreso because we have rarely heard from moms from Japan doing so. Most of the stuff I know about being Pinay moms in Japan come from browsing through obentou sites. Cooking and presenting food the aesthetic Japanese way is one thing, and being just a simple woman who loves life and her husband and children is another.This is simply one of Seiko’s Diary’s big pluses, informative and filled with love and laughter a mom could only give, all the way staight from Japan. 

I wonder if I could get that awesome Japan dream someday. 

The White Queen 

Sweet soul review

So what are these new blog reviews I’m doing, you ask? Well it’s a little something that made me interested enough to actually try something beyond the realm of my moon blogging! Check it out here!

I am not really one who’d do shameless promotions or something if I didn’t believe in what I am talking about. Well, this contest is sponsored by one of my frieds back in my old office Kaye, who has decided that being a WAHM (work at home mom for you unsure people out there) was probably the best thing that happened to her since the invention of sliced bread, and second only to her wonderful hubby and daughter of course. Kaye’s really awesome, and her blog is of course lightyears away from this drabble I have here. Kaye’s blog if of course drawn from her experiences as a fulltime mom, wifey and her everyday struggles with her demanding WAHM lifestyle. I have experienced life being a freelance writer, and one could possibly say that a WAHM also has similar trials, except of course the added demands of being a mom and a wife. I admire Kaye, mainly she ended up doing what I have always thought was the impossible blogosphere dream - being well liked, have lots of followers and readers, and yes, sponsoring contests like this. What better way to show the world you’ve made it in the blogosphere than giving awesome contests like this as a big thank you?

The White Queen