Solo Mother

March 31st, 2008

Sex and the single mom

Who knew? While playing around with keyword searches this evening, I stumbled on this combination, a very popular string, so it seems.
Hrm. Sex and the single mom. Who knew we could be so sexy? Is it the barnacle we wear, constantly demanding in the cutest way possible for MORE TIME. MORE ATTENTION. MORE MOM. Perhaps […]

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March 29th, 2008

Shout out to my first single mom friend

Today was the Kite Festival. Today was tired happy excited kids on the Mall, running around in a fitful wind trying to keep their kites off the ground.
Today was the second day that the KoE’s papa is in town to visit for a week.
Today was running into people I know, people I love, people […]

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March 28th, 2008

To the light of my life: you’re five

I have absolutely no idea what to say.
My kid is five. My amazing, funny, high maintenance, gobsmacking, utterly hysterical, kind, sweet, thoughtful little guy is a whole hand old, and I’m in awe of him. He’s come so far in such a short time, dealing with utter equanimity the bizzare turns this past week has […]

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March 27th, 2008

$204,060: hello, baby!

$204,060
That’s how much the USDA is projecting that middle-income families will spend to raise children born in 2007. What boggles my mind is the fact that folks are SURPRISED that the cost of raising a child is on the rise. I’m now old enough that I can say stuff like, “I remember when a can […]

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March 26th, 2008

Child support watch: nearly four months

I’m at my wit’s end. The ex is flying to be with his son on the KoE’s fifth birthday, and can afford to do that… but says it will be another couple of weeks before he can catch up on his child support payments. April will begin month four without a dime. And yet he’s […]

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March 25th, 2008

Ghosts, land mines and ancient history: memories of a breakup

I’m packing up, consolidating my house and my heart for yet another iteration of self in this transformation from married woman to single mother; sifting through what to keep, what to sell, what to give away. I remember the faces of each of the women who came to my rented, crumbling home in those first […]

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March 24th, 2008

Do you have insurance? Do you have a personal disaster plan?

Single mother Marjorie Jean-Baptiste’s home was in flames, the first floor impassable. One by one, she threw six of her seven children out of a second story window, relying on a snowbank to break their falls. Her oldest child bravely jumped.
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March 23rd, 2008

moving boxes

I think I’ve got two weeks of after work time to pack up our whole house and move to mid-town. The packing would go much more quickly if the King of Everything would stop stealing my boxes. Currently, he is doing cartwheels through the house inside the box.
Doubt me, do you?

He begged me for […]

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March 21st, 2008

today

Oh. My. Goodness.
This single mother is exhausted. I have no idea how his pre-kindergarten teacher can do it with 24 of these little amazing spinning tops every day.
It started at seven this morning, with all the animals somehow levitating toward my bed, a small pair of feet magicking them toward me. There he […]

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March 20th, 2008

Here’s a fun one for you: organic Easter egg dyes

Apologies to the non-Christians among us, who can at least take heart in the fact that we Christians are running around mixing our pagan Oestre rites of fertility in with the resurrection of Christ… (by the way, all you single mothers struggling to explain the Easter Bunny to your kids? Don’t go the pagan route… […]

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