From the monthly archives:

November 2008

The Married Single Mom

November 16, 2008

I am a former married single mother. Which is why I am now an unmarried single mother. The only difference – I now have half of the laundry and half of the dishes to clean. Seriously. When your husband contributes very little around the house, when you’re the one driving the kids to and from [...]

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Big Weekend

November 14, 2008

I’m frantically packing. I’ve been planning this weekend’s trip since… oh, Monday. But I waited to pack until tonight. Smart. Tomorrow morning Benjamin, Mr. Man and I are headed down to Kan-Tuck-Ee (I love saying it like that) to visit Morgan (aka Modern Single Momma or, as I like to call her, my soul sister). [...]

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When men fall…

November 12, 2008

they fall hard. My aunt told me this years ago. The words didn’t make sense to me at the time. Every man I’d ever dated had been slow to fall or reluctant to fall. I just couldn’t imagine one actually falling as hard as she described, until now… “I’m crazy about you. I just can’t [...]

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Food for thought.

November 12, 2008

Both of my men (Mr. Man & Benjamin) are on my mind. For entirely different reasons, but they both have bugs. Mr. Man has the love bug, which I think I’ve caught as well. Definitely contagious in some cases. Benjamin has an ear bug, which I am entirely responsible for fixing. In regards to that [...]

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Toil and Trouble

November 11, 2008

The newspaper headlines aren’t improving. We are in trouble. It seems every day a friend tells me they have or may get laid off. And last night I got an e-mail from one of you, a single mother, who rather than taking on a second job is considering moving in with her boyfriend to save [...]

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A new frontier.

November 9, 2008

It’s officially – official. Mr. Man and I are an item. But because even uttering the word relationship makes my arm hairs stand on end, not out of joy but out of fear – I’ve decided to do some research. After all, it’s been years since I’ve been in a “real relationship” so I need [...]

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Pleased to meet you.

November 7, 2008

I’ve finally found some words, between the haze of my viral infection – here you go… the start to the story of how I met Mr. Man. The story, as you know, is still unfolding. We met at the bar my mother and I used to frequent after my father died. Mom and I were [...]

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Get Rattled!

November 6, 2008

Christine Coppa of Glamour.com’s Storked! recently finished her memoir on becoming a single mother and the title? Rattled! Very appropriate, don’t you think? Order your advanced copy here. Like me, Christine, was 26 when she found out she was pregnant. Three months later her boyfriend made it clear he didn’t want to be a part [...]

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A cramp in my style…

November 5, 2008

Stress or maybe just too much to do – constantly running myself in a million directions – has weakened my immune system. Now I have some kind of nasty, nasty virus. So here I am, flat on my back, unable to walk across a room without severe pain from this nasty whatever it is. My [...]

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THE Ultimate Single Mom!

November 3, 2008

Read the inspiring Ultimate Single Mom Contest responses and add your own here. If you didn’t win and you’d like your own iHeartSingleParents.com t-shirt browse all of the styles here. You won’t have ANY problems meeting fellow single moms and dads if you’re wearing one of these!  P.S. If you haven’t seen it yet i [...]

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