From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Knus! (That’s Danish for Hugs)

August 19, 2008

Can’t believe I’ll be in Europe in less than 24 hours. Leaving at 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, landing in Copenhagen at 3:00 a.m. Eastern time. But it will be 9:00 a.m. Danish time and that means, I can head straight for a pastry shop!!! Yes, I’m planning on gaining at least 5 pounds while I’m there, maybe 7 (if I’m lucky).

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Daddy! Daddy! Daddy?

August 18, 2008

This is entirely new and I am stumped. He’s done it before but only intermitently. Now he’s hit 2.6 and is very aware of the fact that Daddy and Mommy are not together (ever). What am I supposed to tell him? The “Daddy is at his house” line is getting old. And what does that mean to a 2-year-old anyway? Where is his daddy? Why isn’t his daddy here?

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Lessons Learned.

August 16, 2008

Just wanted to pass these on: 1. The words “Quiet on the set” mean absolutely nothing to a 2-year-old. Learned while working on a 48 Hour Film Project this weekend. My team is amazing. As I write this they’re still filming, a grueling process that started last night when we drew our category. (I wrote the [...]

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The Bad Boy Complex

August 15, 2008

I just don’t get it. My ex-husband was definitely a bad boy. Tattoos from head to toe, actually to his butt. He passed out at a party and someone tattooed a Care Bear heart on his ass. But I didn’t see that until it was too late. The bad boys can disguise themselves but as single moms that can be bad news!

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Love at first sight.

August 12, 2008

This weekend I was telling one of my friends how lucky she is to have such an incredibly fulfilling marriage with such an amazing man.They are both blissfully in love and I’m sure they are “soul mates.”

Then she told me about her mother, who was a single mom until she finally met her husband when she was 46-years-old. “You’ll find someone,” she said sweetly.

“You know what though. I might not. And that’ll be okay. Really. Because I’ve already met one soul mate and that’s more than most people meet.”

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I went shopping today…

August 11, 2008

During my first year as a single mom I was broke. Totally broke. I learned how to live off of next to nothing and now that I have some again, still have trouble spending any without feeling horrible. To curb my guilt I’m going to pat myself on the back reminding myself how I save money so that I can shop every once in while…

Here are some ways I save money as a single mom.

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Chaos and calm.

August 11, 2008

The night before I went to a Black Crowes concert. After my girlfriend and I squirmed our way to the fifth row I could see Chris Robinson’s face. And for some reason, all I could think about was the fact that this guy – had let Kate Hudson go. What had she seen in him? This crazy, rocker guy… she and I have a lot in common. Being single moms and, of course, that damn bad boy complex. What is up with that anyway?

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Single Mom S.O.S.: Should I leave my ex alone with my son?

August 9, 2008

Krissy is a single mother to her 7-month-old son. Two weeks after she told her boyfriend she was pregnant, he dumped her for someone else. She’s been alone ever since. But now Krissy wants to go to college in the fall but she can’t afford day care (did I mention being a single mom is tough). Here’s what she wrote me, “He (my ex) is so irresponable with him, he wont listen to me when I try to tell him things, like support him better when you hold him, (he has almost dropped him several times) he has fallen off the bed in his care, he got stuck under a chair in his care, he often ignores him. I’m so afraid something terrible is going to happen to my son out of neglect…”
I think it’s clear this guy should not, under any circumstances, be left alone with his son. What do you think?

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Beam me up, Scottie: To Denmark Please!

August 8, 2008

Two weeks from today – I’ll be here. With this guy… And now it’s starting to set in. I haven’t let myself think about it. I try not to get excited about things. Instead, I stay cool, calm … and then just a few days before it happens – I freak out.

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