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Have a fabulous weekend, single mothers. What do you have planned? Me? I’ve got a hot date with a pottery wheel, library with the King of Everything, a fantastic farmers market, and maybe a little gospel singin’ for this bruised soul.
When life gets hard and I find it difficult to breathe, I find it easier to sing.
I’ve been doing a lot of singing, lately. And this is one song that makes everything somehow alright.
Even if the video is a little goofy. Enjoy, single mothers.
One of the things on my school supply list is hand sanitizer for the classroom. My kid’s too old to be eating the stuff, but did you know? Hand sanitizer can contain up to 62% Ethyl alcohol? And little kids who decide to taste the stuff instead of rubbing it into their hands can wind up drunk on a school day. It’s not an urban myth, either.
Luckily, there’s a brilliant product on the market that offers an alternative to that gross stuff. MOMSPIT. You’ll never spit onto a tissue and scrub your kid’s face again. Here’s how the ladies over …read more
I came up in a Lutheran church with a very staunch, very ancient, German congregation. The church was dark, the pastor serious in his duties. I sang in the choir and sat with my mother, falling asleep during every interminable sermon on the horrors of the world we lived in.
I hated it.
When the KoE and I first landed in Washington, D.C. with nothing but $400, four suitcases, and an incredible network of friends, some of our staunchest allies took us in. They sheltered us and loved us through some scary times. And they took us to their church, St. Martin’s …read more
I held a baby yesterday. This delicious chunk of love and contentment, a bundle of gummy smiles and teething complaints, soothed the aches and pains of me with the sheer, complex simplicity of it all.
I dangled his little toes in the water of the pool, and blew bubbles and dived under the water to make him laugh while his mother cuddled him in the shade of the life guard’s chair. I felt his mother’s absolute trust in me, with her helpless little child. I remembered again that absolute feeling of strength and calm, the duty of the caregiver, the love …read more
Really. It was great. I was up by 5:30 but that’s okay, I have fabulous coffee in the cupboard. I went to my pottery class. I had lunch with my family.
And then we walked the King of Everything into our local bank and opened a savings account for him. The financial advisor, Eric, was just great. And so impressed with the KoE, who has been saving his allowance and rolling up coins, and saved his birthday check, and lo and behold, he had more than $130 to deposit today.
Eric explained all the things he was doing as he created my …read more
Science Daily published an interesting article on the benefits of three generations under one roof for the children of single mothers. Of course, the study doesn’t say much about the toll such arrangements might take on a single mother’s freedom for booty calls and the like, but it definitely comes down on the side of the kids.
In the United States, more than six million children under the age of 18 live with at least one grandparent. Of these children, 2.5 million are part of a single-mother family that includes the child’s mother as well as one or more grandparents.
Using data …read more
Because you know, the first three letters in AUGUST spell “AUG!” and that’s darned close to Charlie Brown’s famous epiphany of despair.
Fear not! I’ve got about three weeks to get it together.You should have at least that long, too.
That means the paycheck on the 15th is going straight to school supplies and school uniforms, but heck, it’s August. We’ll hang around the pool. We’ll take the Bolt Bus somewhere to visit friends for a weekend. We’ll play it cool and keep things on the free side of life.
Get yourself a cuppa (tea, coffee, juice, wine, whatever is your favorite poison …read more
NPR has posted its audience picks of the top 100 Best Beach Books Ever!
I haven’t had a chance to check if my favorite beach book of this summer made the list: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Bring this to your library! And enjoy.
This is a beautiful story, woven around so many of the stories our grandparents and great grandparents told us; a story of first generation immigrants to America, and the hardships, hopes and hassles encountered along the way.
I hope you get a chance to catch this movie… Here’s what the AMREEKA website has to say:
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to …read more
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