Welcome to Dutch Blitz…where every day is pretty crazy. My name is Angella and I. Am. Canadian.
I am married to an amazing man named Matthew. He is the one with the Dutch heritage…and the Dutch last name that I took on as my own. Matthew and I have three children together – Graham is 8, Nathan is 6 and Emily is 4. Three kids in under four years and a Dutch last name led me to name my site Dutch Blitz when I went self-hosted four years ago.
(Illustration by Secret Agent Josephine)
I am an accountant by trade, and am also an amateur photographer and freelance writer. I have a photography site that I try to keep updated and I write at a number of places beside this here website. If you want to know more about me, the FAQ page is a good place to start.
Where I write:
I have been with Work It! Mom since 2008. I have a regular column where I write about marriage and relationships, I contribute to the Affordable Luxuries blog and I line up guest writers for the Problem Solved column.
I am one of the food bloggers for the General Mills recipe site Life Made Delicious.
I’ve been writing a weekly column about photography at The Bad Moms Club since August of 2010.
I’ve been with The Daily Grommet since 2009, both writing product copy for their shopping website and writing posts for their blog.
Where I’ve been featured:
I was interviewed for the Globe and Mail in April 2010 for an article about Date Nights.
I was quoted in Women’s World magazine regarding a beach cooler.
Guest posts I’ve done elsewhere:
I’ve written at Urban Moms about Bed Time Routines and Family Fun in the Evenings.
I’ve guest posted at pop culture website MamaPop a number of times. You can see the list of articles here.
***
If you have any questions or want to contact me, you can reach me via email: dutchblitzin AT gmail DOT com
Pingback: Holy Crazy Weekend Batman | Songs In Blue
Hi Angella,
Today I typed the words, “motherhood is not a competition” into the google search engine. Your blog was the first thing I read from the results. I cannot thank you enough for putting my crazy, scatterbrained thoughts into perfectly coherent words. I feel like I am constantly biting my tongue around my mom friends. It seems like they’re all just trying to one-up each other (and me!) The worst part is, they act like they know my secret. Or at least what they think is my secret. The reason I don’t participate in the daily game of “top this” is because I’m inferior. It’s not because I genuinely feel happy and comfortable with my daughters’ progress and accomplishments and I don’t feel the need to over exaggerate and make my friends feel bad so I can feel good until the next competition starts!
Basically, I posted this blog entry on my facebook and I’m really praying to every god out there that some of them read this and exhale with relief knowing that they can now just have fun when they’re around me because I’m just not the judging type.
Again, thank you so, so much!
Marie Hague
[Reply]