Monthly Archives: June 2011

The one thing that I would like others to know about being a single parent is that staying together ‘for the good of the children’ ISN’T, and that the kids really can often be better off with just one parent … Continue reading →

I am a list-maker. I have Post-It papers on my desk, scribbled-on receipts in my purse, and notes on napkins in the car. If it isn’t on my list, it doesn’t exist. Know what I mean? So tell me – … Continue reading →

“SING!” Isabelle yells from the back seat. I’ve already exhausted Twinkle Twinkle, the ABCs, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Sing a SONG OF FREAKIN’ SIXPENCE!!!! She wants more. And I can’t just start the song and let her sing the rest. … Continue reading →

Nothing makes my daughter happier than a chocolate chip mini muffin. Well, nothing other than three chocolate chip mini muffins. Or four. Or maybe even five. It makes me happy too. That’s because she and I bake a huge batch … Continue reading →

“Mama, do you like Suzy?” My mind froze. I don’t know how long I expected it would take before my daughter asked me my thoughts on my ex-husband’s new wife-to-be. We had random conversations about Suzy’s house or about things … Continue reading →

When (my daughter) Haley was 3, she asked me one afternoon if we could get slush puppies at the store around the corner. I had told her “No,” but she insisted she was going to get one by herself and … Continue reading →

When you are a single parent, there are hard days…and then there are harder days. Sometimes I wonder how I’m going to make it through the afternoon. I have rooms to clean, toys to put away, laundry to fold, bills … Continue reading →

I had a tough day with my daughter. She told me she hated me, that I wasn’t her real mother. She threw mud at me, then threw her shoe. She scratched her fingernails down the side of my arm and … Continue reading →