Who I am

The Ponytailed Mumma? Really?  Well, I'm a mom to my lovely daughter, Zoey, whose little fingers really like my long hair. She's about 13 weeks old, and my hair has been in a ponytail every day since she was born.  The few times I've worn it down, she's gotten her hands completely entangled in it!

Why Mumma? Why not Mom, or Mommy, or Mama?  I'm a Maine girl, through and through, with downeast roots.  Downeast moms are called Mumma. My mom is mumma, my grandmother was mumma, her mother was mumma, and on and on.  The spelling has varied through the years, Mama being the most common, but in many places it's pronounced "Mah Mah". Since you can't hear the "correct" pronunciation in writing, I figured we'd spell it phonetically here.  

We live in Western Maine, in the foothills of the mountains. I'm an English teacher by trade, but I admit I'm sad to leave Zoey to go back to work this fall.   My husband is a self-employed computer geek.  Zoey will be hanging out with her daddy when I go back to work.  That'll probably be a blog entry in a couple weeks!