About This Blog

Welcome to Cashmere & Carrotsticks (C&CS), where Little Black Dress meets ... a pile of soiled laundry. So happy you could join me.

What I hope to achieve with C&CS is a blog with topics that women juggling multiple roles and identities can relate to. Right now in my life, I often feel conflicted and torn between two roles – woman and stay-at-home Mom. Some of you may question why a stay-at-home mom and woman are two different roles … what I mean to explain is the conflict between feeling “womanly” and being the practical, dressed in grubs, showered some days, errand doer – Mom. So this blog will have a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde personality – some days posting topics and thoughts on girly, “womanly” stuff (the cashmere), and other days, posts on the nit and grit of life at home (the carrot sticks). We will see how it evolves. Here goes …

p.s. thank you to my husband and good friend Janice for all of their advice, guidance and encouragement!