5 CommentsIs Jennifer Aniston going to join the ranks of single mothers?
Entertainment Wise from over on the other side of the pond is spreading the rumors that the lovely Aniston is pondering adoption…
They quote the National Enquirer as their source… so who knows if it’s true or no. But the Enquirer claims that she’s looking to adopt two children from LA orphanages. So move on over, single mamas, and make room on the couch. Jennifer’s coming over to our side!
a day in the life
The mother of my son’s future bride is studying to become a midwife. She has some pretty bizarre stuff floating around her house,pamphlets and literature and amazing books on birth and babies, and nothing shocks me anymore.
Imagine my surprise when, as I stand at the front door, waiting to be let into her house, my son appears at their window, dressed in a hoodie and a pair of her daughter’s tights. He’s waving a professionally printed card, on which the only word I can read, because it’s writ large, is “PENIS”.
And my child is shouting something about being a fairy and …read more
Another inspiring single mother
Teenaged, single mother. High school dropout.
Deanna worked her way up the ladder of life, got a degree, passed the bar, and is a grandmother now. Read her story here;
Being a single mom is not debilitating, Deanna Forbush has proved that. Her birthday is tomorrow, but it would be bad form to give away her age, other than to say it’s a big one, ending in zero. “I would often see the stress overcoming her,” Brenda says, “and she would just look at me with this half tear, half angry look, as if she was giving herself an internal pep talk. …read more
Some tentative steps towards public assistance
I don’t know if my pride will let me do it, but it looks as though I’m eligible for public assistance right now. I might qualify for food stamps and emergency health insurance, TANF and financial assistance with rent and utilities.
What. Me? Welfare doesn’t have to look poor to be poor, baby. I’m holding my breath that this dream job I’ve been persuing comes through. I don’t want to have to be supported. I want to be in a position to support the next single mother down the line.
To be scathingly honest, I dread the looks the cashier might give …read more
Setting limits for your children — and then sticking to them
We had a bit of a … difficult night last night. At almost four years old, the King of Everything is perfectly capable of dressing, undressing, and redressing himself. AKA, bedtime. We’d spent a lovely evening at friends’, and it was time to get home and go to bed. He didn’t want to go to bed. He wanted to play games. He wanted to watch a movie. He wanted to read books. He did not want to go to bed.
The twelve gifts of birth
Strength, Beauty, Courage, Compassion, Hope, Joy, Talent, Imagination, Reverence, Wisdom, Love, Faith.
What a lovely list of qualities to encourage in your children. Charlene Constanzo weaves the value of these ideals in a lovely series of books, The Twelve Gifts. I was at a friend’s house this evening and read The Twelve Gifts of Birth. This is a great book to read with your child; it is the doorway to a dialogue on the value of self… something our children need to be taught, now more than ever.
Even if you don’t buy the book, that list up there is a great …read more
Single Mom Seeking
Shari Maser writes a lovely review of Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates and Other Dispatches from the Dating World by Rachel Sarah over at the Literary Mama Blog. It’s not a book I’ve read, yet, but I think I might toddle on down to the library and see if they have it, yet.
Cause I can’t buy it…. I joined the Compact, remember?
some thoughts on finding a job
Wake up on Sunday morning and haul that huge paper to the kitchen table, pour yourself a cuppa and get out the magic marker. It’s Job Search Day. Then spend the week keeping an eye on all the on-line job listings, at the newspaper, Monster.com, your local head-hunters and placement agencies. Spend your evenings filling out online applications and devise some ingenious method whereby you somehow, through nearly mystical means, keep track of everything you’ve applied for, heard back about, and missed out on.
Sound fun?
It’s the job search dance, and you’d better get used to the steps. But there are …read more
lonely is as lonely does
It’s the wee small hours of the morning that are the hardest for me. If I don’t get to bed by nine in the evening, I catch a second wind and am up until 1AM, rattling around the house, thinking too much.
Being a single parent, I find I’m a prisoner in my own home after the kid goes to sleep. I might be able to calm my mind with a long walk, or a pottery class, or a night out with friends… but I don’t have the energy to find a babysitter, and I don’t want to subject a babysitter …read more