Digging around in the kid’s head tonight revealed some interesting things:
his father told him that we broke up because we disagreed about him.
he and his dad talked about weddings.
It was a long, hard snuggle time tonight. He wanted to hear about his parents’ wedding, every last detail. I had to endure describing it as it […]
There was a note in the King of Everything’s bookbag this evening when I picked him up from school: he had some serious homework.
Seems he’d spit on three kids in his class today… unheard of behavior from the KoE. He has three notes of apology to pen tomorrow, instead of going to the Zoo. […]
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 […]
I don’t talk very often about the fact that my mom was a single mother for a while, back when I was a little thing. She was a waitress, and I’d spend the nights with Nanna and Herbert, and the days running around with my wonderful mom. I remember being scared of construction sites (I […]
Lorra Lynch, a reporter out in Macon, Georgia on WMAZ-TV Channel 13, ran a piece on the impact of divorce on families with children. It gives a ray of hope that families can heal after such traumatic events.
View Part I
View Part II
If you’re just beginning the struggle to recover from divorce, I […]
If you’re a single mother because you were in a bad relationship, there’s a good chance your baggage has a tendency not to just open up at inopportune times, but to actually explode all over the place in an extravagant display of dirty laundry. I don’t know that I’ve ever written about this, but towards […]
They had been together for 13 years… but ten months after their son was born, he left her for another woman.
How do you rebuild your life after that?
Katherine Lee, part of the Working Woman crew and formerly an editor at Parenting Magazine, had to figure out how to answer that very question. Read […]
You know, I wouldn’t go through another breakup for all the tea in China, nor for the $108 million that Heather Mills is getting in that oh so celebrity divorce from Sir Paul. 55 million pounds, and she says she has to leave England because everyone hates her. Or some such. Perhaps it was just […]
Me. A Single Mom on Valentine’s Day. I’ve got it all planned. A big date with the King of Everything. What could be nicer? It’s my second Valentine’s Day as a single mother, you’d think I’d be pretty nonchalant about the whole thing by now. I mean, it’s a Hallmark holiday. It doesn’t mean much […]
Thank goodness I did laundry today.
See, I’d glanced at the class list the King of Everything’s teacher had kindly sent home, then promptly put it down somewhere and forgot about it. This morning, as I was loading the dryer, a little speck of handwriting peeked out from under the dryer sheets: …”for Valentine’s Day (optional)” […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
Written by Christina Zola for b5media.
A Child Chosen
A Creative Journal
All Holiday Cafe
Babylune
Baking Delights
Behind The Vines
Blog Fabulous
Brew Ha-Ha
Busy Family Meals
Career and Kids
Chocolate Bytes
Cooking Gadgets
Dating Dames
Declutter It
Foodie Obsessed
GenBetween
Hankering for Yarn
Inside Fatherhood
Inside Motherhood
Jewelry and Beading
Junk Creation
Keeping the Castle
Kettle and Cup
Layers Upon Layers
Macro Cats
Mad Cropper
Marriage Actually
Mom Gadget
Mother Earth's Garden
MyCrimeSpace
Noodles and Rice
Offbeat Homes
One Book Two Book
Our One Heart
Parenting Tweens & Teens
Parents Behaving Badly
Play Library
Psycho for Love
Quilting and Patchwork
Robust Cooking
She Knows Parties
Simply Thrifty
Solo Mother
StampingMad
Supernanny Rules
Tangled Thread
The Food Bowl
Thrifty Mommy
Toolbelt Tips
Tree Hugging Family
Unplugged Living
Widows Quest
Recent Comments