I have been blogging about being a dating single mom for one year now. This is a recap of all of my best single mom adventures… as they happened. Enjoy and I’ll be back in one week. Until then enjoy being the awesome single mom that you are!

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Something has to give.
Can’t be Benjamin.
Can’t be my job.
Can’t be my home.
Actually, I can’t drop anything.
So it seems I need to add something to make everything else easier. Like [...]

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The child of a single parent does not have a “typical” family life. The child of a single parent ultimately sees his parents with different people.

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To Morgan (Modern Single Momma) who may soon be moving to Kentucky with her Phenomenal Man in Moseley…
she’ll be just three hours away from me! (And yes, I think she’s completely crazy - but what the hell? Sometimes love takes us over. And I have a good feeling about this one.)
This is her song [...]

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I think an intervention may be in order, either that or an exorcism.

Benjamin has been possessed by Thomas the Train. Or maybe he’s sold his soul to Sir Topham Hat. Regardless, I don’t see much of him anymore.
If he does come downstairs it’s to ask me if he can watch, “Mickey’s Crack House.”
But [...]

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Thanks to all of my readers I’ve put together a collection of single mom rules to live by, or as I like to call them the Single Mom 10 Commandments. I hope you find them as useful as I have. This is the first installment. Part 2 of my Single Mom 10 Commandments is coming next month.

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I followed my gut. 
And my gut was right. It was marvelous.
Cabin Man (who deserves another name all together and will now be called Kennedy) knocked the wind out of me. 
On my long drive through the gorgeous, albeit slightly frightening bible beating countryside, I let my mind wander and threw all of my expectations out of [...]

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This is an entry into Kristen (Motherhood Uncensored) and Rebecca (Girls Gone Child) Baby Shower Contest. I am a HUGE fan of Rebecca’s blog and her book Rockabye: From Wild to Child. So this is an incredible honor and I couldn’t resist entering.
My pregnancy, minus the 80 pounds I’d gained, was perfect.
I loved the [...]

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An adventure is brewing.
I’ve decided to visit the man I met only briefly last weekend. If you missed it, catch up here. My best friend, Mia, has offered - no - has insisted upon watching Benjamin and she’s practically kicking me out the door to go meet him.
“Why wouldn’t you?” she asks.
“I don’t know, what [...]

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I jumped into the online dating pool again last week. And wow is it busy out there…
As a single mom, finding the time to date is hard enough as it is, not even to mention actually findingthe men to date.
So, online dating is perfect for us. We get to curl up in our pajamas, [...]

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