About the UnModern Mom
About Jaime Lee
My name is Jaime Lee Mann and I’m an UnModern Mom. This is my story (wow that sounds very A&E):
Once upon a time in Eastern Canada, there was a girl named Jaime Lee MacIsaac. Jaime Lee was the eldest of four children and was always dreaming up stories and using her imagination. From a young age she was very creative.
Jaime Lee’s mother stayed at home to take care of the home and the children and Jaime Lee always had a feeling of warmth and comfort knowing her mom was there. (Her mom was a dress maker and did alterations, etc. to earn an income while being home with her children.)
Then Jaime Lee grew up and went to school. One day at college, Jaime Lee met Jason. They fell in love and got married. That’s when Jaime Lee MacIsaac became Jaime Lee Mann.
Jaime graduated from school and worked as an administrative assistant in lots of places. She really enjoyed the work, but didn’t like being bossed around very much. Then one day she got pregnant and decided she didn’t want to go back to work for someone else. She wanted to stay at home to take care of her house and her family just like her mother had. But she needed an income.
Jaime had a wonderful, uneventful pregnancy and by the time her baby girl, Casey, was a year old and maternity leave was almost over, Jaime had studied about how to become a virtual assistant and had started her business, Mann Made Time. That went well and Jaime loved it a lot.
Eventually, though, shortly after having her second daughter, Shelby, Jaime realized she was more of a writer than anyone’s assistant. That’s when she started her copywriting business, Mann Made Copy.
It’s always been Jaime’s dream to work from home to care for her children and now she’s blogging about her adventures in homemaking as a work at home mom to two tykes under the age of 4.
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One day, as I was hanging a load of laundry out on the line, I was inspired to start a blog about how I do a lot of things the old fashioned way in this modern world. I am not a home schooling mom, a Christian mom (I am a guilty Catholic who doesn’t get to church enough) or a vegan mom. I’m not an extreme anything.
My husband (Jason) and I have a 4 year old daughter named Casey who is beautiful, brilliant and kind. We also have a sleep-deprived 2 year old daughter named Shelby who is just as beautiful, just as brilliant and maybe not as kind (yet) but incredibly sweet. They are the world as far as their daddy and I are concerned. (Don’t expect to see lots of photos of them on here. I have mixed feelings about posting pictures of the girls online and it just doesn’t feel comfortable to do so.)
- I love baking bread from scratch.
- I believe there’s no nicer smell than line-dried laundry.
- I’m happy to prepare a home cooked meal for dinner everyday if it means I don’t have to take out the garbage or shovel the driveway.
- I do all the cooking and most of the cleaning and I love being home with my children.
- I think it’s okay that my husband and I have pretty traditional gender roles for the most part, but I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea.And that’s okay too!
I understand there are women who look down their nose at me and judge me as a nut for doing the all the cooking and the majority of the cleaning, laundry and other household stuff that wives did in the days of June Cleaver.
I’m not saying that my way of doing things is the best way or even a good way, but I don’t think it’s a bad way to live – it’s just our way. I’m not going to judge a mother for counting down the days until she can get out of her house and go back to work. I’m not going to judge the mother who home schools ten children.
I believe each and every one of us, as moms, just have to do what feels right in our heart, and this blog is where I’ll be documenting my experiences and maybe, hopefully, inspiring someone along the way to slow down a bit and realize that sometimes the way our grandmothers did things was really pretty smart.
