Solo Mother

Babylune and the single mother — single at birth

by christina on November 29th, 2006

Kate over at Babylune has interviewed Gloria Gamat, who writes Cancer Commentary, about what it’s like to be a single mother from the beginning.

Thank you, Kate and Gloria, for such a thoughtful conversation about the real life choices mothers make every day when we’re left to raise our children more or less by ourselves. I was particularly struck by this passage:

When it was just my son and me (before we moved in with my mother) and I didn’t even have tiime to do things for myself like the simple pleasure of going to the grocery on weekends in peace or spending a little outside the house just to get a decent pedicure. During that time I felt like I was always running against time. Mostly, especially when my son was barely two…ah terrible. I don’t want to go back to that time when I was too tired to sleep or even eat dinner while doing the laundry at midnight.

That’s me. I’ve been scrambling madly to fulfill all the contract work I’ve committed to, which all seemed to come due on the same day. I haven’t slept in days, we’re out of eggs, and the kid needs his school uniforms clean and fresh for tomorrow morning. No wonder I just go back to bed on those days when someone takes the little guy.

Ok, break’s over. Back on my head.

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