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Archive for August 2007

August 28th, 2007

Interesting article on single moms

You might want to head on over to MSNBC and see their take on Babytalk’s annual motherhood survey, and married versus single moms. A very interesting read.
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By christina -- 4 comments

August 27th, 2007

thrifty ideas: clothes

A lovely local mother just gifted me with the motherload of handmedowns for the King of Everything. I’m in the process of washing and sorting it — he’s got enough clothes to last him three years now! I’m so blessed. There are so many clothes that I’m probably going to split the lot and find […]

By christina -- 4 comments

August 26th, 2007

Sunday’s ritual

It seems we’ve fallen into another golden time we’ll look back on when we’re older–with fondness and nostalgia, I hope. I’m a lucky single mother.
When I was a little girl, my father would take me to Doc Dalinsky’s over on Wisconsin and O Streets. It was a pharmacy, an old fashioned drugstore, where Nettie who […]

By christina -- 3 comments

August 25th, 2007

thinking about single mothers by choice

I wonder what life would have been like if I’d made the decision to have a child without the active involvement of a father. Would this be easier or harder or just different? I don’t know. Whether a woman finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and decides to forge ahead, father or no… or if […]

By christina -- 7 comments

August 24th, 2007

Friday fun: Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz is many things… Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, wife to Senator Sherrod Brown, author of the book …and His Lovely Wife
She was once a single mother, as well.
Like many women, I’d lived many lives by the time I met Sherrod. For eleven years I was a married, stay-at-home mom who wrote freelance stories at […]

By christina -- 0 comments

August 23rd, 2007

I’m not sure I’m cut out for this life

It came down to me tonight. Walking across the stage in front of hundreds of strangers to accept an award on behalf of my company. We won first place. I regaled my table with tales of the King of Everything and enjoyed myself immensely. that is all.
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August 21st, 2007

One last hurrah for summer

Kate over at Babylune is running another fabulous contest… Jump on over there for the chance to win $100 and write about your best family vacation ever… it could be as a parent or a child. The complete rules are here. Go on! You only have until the 31st of August to get your writing […]

By christina -- 0 comments

August 20th, 2007

I must have missed the memo: summer’s OVER?

I don’t know about you single moms out there, but this summer just flew by for us… mostly thanks to my amazing mom, who took the King of Everything on adventures large and small, from an amazing playground to a waterpark to a friend’s house with a lake to a road trip down south. Me? […]

By christina -- 5 comments

August 19th, 2007

Self esteem for the single mother

I posted about a meme challenge to list ten things I like about myself.
I’m still thinking. I promised I’d write this today, and here it is, almost nine o’clock at night and I’ve not written a word. I’m getting up at four in the morning to go to New York; I’d better get to […]

By christina -- 10 comments

August 18th, 2007

here’s a hard one: ten things you like about yourself

Maria over at Mme. Meow’s Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm tagged me to write ten things I like about myself.
I’m having a hard time doing that, right now.
Ahem. In the interest of full disclosure, I think I have a hard time doing that any time. I’m rough on myself. I demand perfection and, since […]

By christina -- 4 comments

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