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Solo Mother

February 16th, 2008

Saturday’s round up of good things and bad and indifferent

You know, I wouldn’t go through another breakup for all the tea in China, nor for the $108 million that Heather Mills is getting in that oh so celebrity divorce from Sir Paul. 55 million pounds, and she says she has to leave England because everyone hates her. Or some such. Perhaps it was just […]

By christina -- 6 comments

September 5th, 2007

OK, so the ex is gone… now what?

Single mothers all over are nodding their heads and sighing over this one. The ex swoops in, the kid’s in heaven for a few days or weeks or whatnot, and then you’re left to pick up the pieces. No more dessert right before bedtime. No more stops at the toy store every day. No more […]

By christina -- 6 comments

September 2nd, 2007

The ex visits…

When we first were married, neither of us could remember what life had been like before ‘us’. Now that it has all fallen apart, I can’t remember what brought us together in the first place. I have no idea who that man sleeping in our daybed is.
Our son is glad to see his papa. […]

By christina -- 8 comments

August 26th, 2007

Sunday’s ritual

It seems we’ve fallen into another golden time we’ll look back on when we’re older–with fondness and nostalgia, I hope. I’m a lucky single mother.
When I was a little girl, my father would take me to Doc Dalinsky’s over on Wisconsin and O Streets. It was a pharmacy, an old fashioned drugstore, where Nettie who […]

By christina -- 18 comments

December 16th, 2006

How do you deal with the holidays, after the divorce?

One of the things I felt I had to agree to in order to leave the UAE with our son was that the ex would get him for Christmas. I hated it, wasn’t comfortable with it, and knew in my heart that it would all be too much for my three year old: leave the […]

By christina -- 4 comments