Solo Mother

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 sliding by pretty smoothly. The King of Everything has a great haircut and brand new shoes, thanks to his grandparents (size 13.5 WIDE and he’s only 5 years old). All his best summer memories have been lovingly crafted by his grandmother and grandfather–berry picking, a …read more

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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 days for a box to play in… since I don’t have a car, it’s difficult to get boxes to the house, and these were delivered by the coolest mom in the universe, my own mama. But in the end, I sacrificed one box to the …read more

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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 a boy.
We began a game on the bus last week when I looked up and noticed the maple trees flinging a nimbus of scarlet into the air. I pointed it out to the Kid, and we played a merry game of Spot Spring (my apologies …read more

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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! Come on, mama!”

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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 always doing something, going somewhere, making something. We biked from Washington DC to Reading, Pennsylvania. We made flowers out of dip n drape, snowflakes using quilling paper, Christmas ornaments out of salt dough. Recently, I found one of my favorite books at a used book …read more

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