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Solo Mother

July 19th, 2008

summer, anyone?

Camp Weary Parent has been in full swing all summer, but the fearless leaders over at Weary Parent are marching gamely on. Charlene is playing her own game of Survivor and counting down to school (38 days!), while Christine is wondering when her teens decided she was uncool…
Here at SoloMother, the summer seems to be […]

By christina -- 2 comments

July 16th, 2008

Divorce is bad for children… now what?

I keep reading all these studies that show how bad divorce is for children. There’s another one, an interesting study, but I found out about it on the Catholic Exchange website.
When I read a summary or news article about data, surveys, polls, or the like, I have to wonder about the slant. Who commissioned the […]

By christina -- 8 comments

June 24th, 2008

In the summer time

My son is bleary eyed and amazingly exhausted by six at night, but so jazzed about the magic of his day he still can’t get to sleep before eight. His skin glows with the heat of the day and he turns nut brown in seconds, no matter how much sun screen we apply.
He’s at […]

By christina -- 0 comments

June 23rd, 2008

Savvy Mommy has news we can use: Success

I’m all done in on happy advice for us single moms. I’s tired. My day job? She’s trying to get me to save the world and golly gee, I’d love to, but it makes me feel so small and ineffectual.
So I’ll turn to what Savvy Mommy has to say about getting single moms up […]

By christina -- 2 comments

June 10th, 2008

Ahhhh… life in the big city

This afternoon, I picked the Sondog up from school. He was waiting at the front door of his classroom with his Pre-K for Obama sign across his shoulder, ready and anxious to get outta there! I dropped off some paperwork at his school and we wandered down the avenue to my office. Folks were honking […]

By christina -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

Three day weekend therapy

This was quite a weekend, capped off by my 40th birthday. Want a peek at how this SoloMother lives?
Tags: birthday cake, celebration, children, kids, memorial-day, single-mom, single-mother, tourismShare This

By christina -- 3 comments

May 20th, 2008

Even I’d throw a temper tantrum if I thought it would help

The KoE is whiny mush by the time 7PM comes around, but the family wanted to represent at the PTA meeting tonight, and the older grades were demonstrating the games they developed for the Sally Ride toy competition, and the KoE was abuzz and agog at the idea of Staying Up Late! Playing with the […]

By christina -- 0 comments

May 18th, 2008

Please ma, can I have him can I can I?

One of the battles here at single mother headquarters is the battle for a pet. The kid hasn’t marshalled all his forces yet, so I can keep the upper hand for now. But he’s wearing down my defenses with his adorable and heartbreaking technique of bonding with toy animals. He’s got a fake ferret that […]

By christina -- 6 comments

January 30th, 2008

What to cook when you don’t want to cook…

I’m back to full-time craziness. Not a moment to breathe, let alone do laundry go grocery shopping take the kid to TKD read a book watch a movie clean the house…
What? You want DINNER?
Surely you jest.
Luckily, our local foodie channel is pointing the way to a free cookbook! Single mothers rejoice, there is inspiration […]

By christina -- 0 comments

January 14th, 2008

Utterly random thoughts from the blogosphere…

I don’t think I hit my head last night. So there really is no excuse for the utter lack of… intelligence rattling around in my brain, save for the fact that it’s Monday, I was up all night, and I’m poking around the Net being very surprised. And disappointed. And amused.
Not necessarily in that […]

By christina -- 3 comments

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