“This blog is my scrapbook,” says Anastasia Pydych, an Edina mom who started created her edina-mom.com blog last year to “express some of my musings about raising kids in Edina.” On her site, Pydych confronts the everyday reflections and confessions of what it means to be an Edina mom.
Pydych, who grew up in a large family in the city, remembers her own childhood being radically different from that of her children’s. Because raising children in an affluent suburb like Edina presents different struggles and parenting techniques, Pydych hopes her blog will become a space where people can dialogue, bounce around ideas, agree and disagree, and challenge one another.
With two children ages 16 and 19, Pydych is looking to expand her blog to include musings from other local mothers. She’s recently added Joanna Engstrom, mother of three children who quit her previous job to become a stay-at-home mom and is always seeking balance.
