Unstoppable Gals

A day in Karine's head when she's PMS-ing Morning: OMG! I can’t go to work like this. My stomach hurts so bad I think I’m going to be sick. Hey, maybe I can call in sick. Does this count as a sick day? I’ll just go have breakfast first and see if it passes. OMG, I’m so fat. I shouldn’t have breakfast. Maybe I should do that intermittent fasting thing. Or maybe I’ll just have one little chocolate croissant. Maybe two. Well, I already ruined my diet for today and I’m already fat, so I might as well eat the entire bag or else I’ll be hungry before lunch. At work: I hate my job. I hate people. I hate everything. I just want to get into foetal position under my desk and cry. After work : Have you not noticed how dirty the cupboards are? How can you walk past these cupboards everyday of your life and not notice the spilled coffee from last week or the drops of yogourt that splashed everywhere when OUR daughter dropped her bowl yesterday!! How can you live like this? T...

Warning: This is not a feminist post. We are simply referring to a woman’s right to not have children on the basis of societal change and acceptability. Oh shoot! Maybe this is a feminist post. Oh well! Don’t get your panties in a knot!  The lifelong question. Should I have children? There was a time when women didn’t have the possibility to even ask themselves that question. Why would they? They were only meant to carry children and perform household chores. Thankfully, most people realized that women are not defined solely by their capacity to reproduce (I say “most” because we all know someone who knows someone who still thinks that we’re in the 1920s). We have a choice! The question is: How do you handle that choice?   Karine’s thoughts Too many people don’t ask themselves that question often enough. Once those babies come popping out, there’s no going back. Trust me. I tried. Seriously, I love my kids. When teachers and parents asked me what I wante...

W elcome to our blog of Unstoppable Gals. We thought we’d start off by introducing ourselves. Guik (left) and Karine (right) in Bucerias, Mexico in February 2019.   My name is Karine. I’m the one on the right. I’m a 37 year-old mother of three ranging between the ages of 8 and 12. I’m married to my college sweet heart and work full time. It’s a busy life. It sounds perfect doesn’t it? Well it is…most of the time. Sometimes it’s hard, frustrating and exhausting. Sometimes I want to strangle my significant other and run off to Mexico where I can give massages to strangers on the beach in exchange for tacos and tequila. A girl can dream! Thankfully, I have my bestie, Guik. I can live vicariously through her. It’s a pretty sweet deal. She goes out, she meets a ton of people, she wines and dines, she tells me all about it, I daydream while I’m doing homework with the kids and she pays the bill. It’s a win-win situation.   I would describe myself as an impulsive, animal lov...