May 8th, 2008
I loved the headline when it popped into my Google alerts: Get what you want this Mother’s Day: Twist the ex’s arm. I followed the link, eager to read some pithy article on how to get deadbeat dads to fess up and cough up back child support.
Instead, my eager clicking was quickly replaced by WTF…
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April 11th, 2008
Certain toys seem to be the bane of my single mother existence.
I’ve got Quadrilla down, and might even get an expansion set, just because… I like the toy.
I’ll play basketball and football, knights and his castle games, I’ll even let him challenge me to a duel. He’s a boy. I get it.
Lego Mars […]
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February 20th, 2008
Jennifer W, you are the proud owner of The Modern Mom’s Guide to Dads
Look for an email from solomother and we’ll get the particulars.
Please keep checking back to the SoloMother site, I’ve got three more wonderful books to give away, and I want to give them to YOU!
Yes, you.
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February 19th, 2008
I really had to let the KoE choose this one, because your reasons for wanting the book were all so good, I couldn’t trust myself to pick randomly enough.
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November 22nd, 2007
I hope you are all having a good and safe and happy holiday.. We’ve eaten our turkey, we’ve laid down in a food coma, and now the coffee’s on and the dessert is being cut. My mother made pecan pie! Which means I’m a happy woman.
At our feast, my four year old son looked up […]
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October 12th, 2007
Oh, thank you thank you Ratphooey for pointing the way to the best thing I have seen on YouTube since Numa Numa:
Watch this.
Because I said so.
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June 27th, 2007
Do you know what your kids are listening to, these days?
I hope they are listening to good, old fashioned, tongue-in-cheek, it sucks to be hormonal music like this:
Seriously. If I had a teenager to embarrass, and a car to drive around town in, I’d roll down all the windows, let the top down, and blast […]
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March 8th, 2007
b5media is celebrating Spring, the season of hope and renewal, on our family and relationships channel’s carnival this month.
It got me thinking, again, how lucky we’ve been, how good the universe has been. How are you doing out there, single moms? How is life treating you? What do you need? What do you want? What […]
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March 5th, 2007
When I was a kid, my grandparents had night lights everywhere, it seemed. One in the bathroom, certainly. Several along the hallway leading to said bathroom. At least one in the kitchen. There is a particular shade of yellow edging into orange that will bring back the memory of those simple, plastic night lights every […]
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February 9th, 2007
Charlene over at Weary Parent did a great job putting together this month’s Family and Relationships Carnival on… you guessed it… LOVE!
love every which way we could turn it. Definitely something to read before the big day next week!
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