Solo Mother

Certain toys seem to be the bane of my single mother existence.
I’ve got Quadrilla down, and might even get an expansion set, just because… I like the toy.
I’ll play basketball and football, knights and his castle games, I’ll even let him challenge me to a duel. He’s a boy. I get it.

Lego Mars Mission was a challenge, but I could have put it together if the King of Everything could have stopped breaking it as fast as I could fix it.
I haven’[t given up hope that we’ll find the right screwdriver for Robo Reptile… but here’s where …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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There was a fascinating report on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday on children, imaginative play, television and marketing.
“Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills” by Alix Spiegel. It brings to light some fascinating things we’ve suspected but couldn’t put our finger on…
television is bad for you. No. Really?

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