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 […]

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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 10th, 2008

What’s it like out there?

I’m reeling from the time change. Why, oh WHY do we have to do this? The Kid of course woke up in the middle of the night with some sort of leg spasm brought on, no doubt, from pounding around like a nut on the concrete sidewalks last night on our way home. He’s such […]

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April 30th, 2007

Grandmothers and grandsons: a match made in heaven

When I arrived to pick up my son from his weekend at his grandparents’ apartment, he was so excited to show me something he’d been doing on their rooftop garden that he pulled the plug on his bath and hurry scurried into clean clothes. “Come, mama! Come see my beanies! Come see my new quest! […]

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March 11th, 2007

You don’t have to be a science wiz to enjoy this stuff!

Connor is an amazing kid. He got frustrated with standard science kits for kids, because they didn’t have everything he needed to do the experiments.
So he created his own kits. Connor’s Kits for Kids offer everything you need for successful experiments, right down to the water!
When I was a kid, my mother and I were […]

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