A Busy Mom Quest for Love, Happiness and Success
Christmas is depressing. I get why people get depressed. It feels you must have the perfect little family or the perfect little life to be able to enjoy it. It's been hard for me to feel like I had everything going well... I may have a tendency to focus on the bad... And then there are gifts... ...
This morning I jumped out of bed, turned on his lights, asked him to wake up and went to take a shower. As he got up he came into the bathroom and said: Mommy, this morning when I woke up, my lights were on! Hehe I wondered how that happened. My son suffers from migraines since ...
I keep wondering if up above somewhere or around us there are ghosts giving out awards. If they do, I will most certainly win the one for worse mothering. We had a really bad night tonight... He's been sick and I ran out of patience... I just have no more to give... no more love, no ...
If you have kids, you know that they say the darnest things... When I asked my son if I was the only terrible mother that didn't send a Valentine gift for the kids. He said no, I am not the most terrible mother, but I am the most embarrassing one, because I say he's in Time Out instead ...
Trying to find science class for my son... he loves playing with the solar powered kit I gave him... too bad it's so limited and everything else out there seems expensive! Anyways... I think maybe next summer thinking of placing him in a tech summer camp. Found a great site that searches by location, 2 in ...
Today is a special day. Nine years ago I was in a hospital bed feeling like a truck had ran me over, in a lot of pain because of you. You delight in saying to everyone you meet that you were a huge baby (because at your age you don't understand bigger is not always ...
Read a great article on childless women at Huffington: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melanie-notkin/childless-women_b_894535.html And it's so hard for me to correlate with these women. Being a parent at 16 of a completely unplanned child makes it a case where I didn't have time to crave a child. It's amazingly fulfilling to be a parent - and it will be a great ...
There's a never-ending slightly nostalgic, slightly melancholic feeling when you are a single parent. When contemplating ongoing issues such as college funding, or more complicated stances such as providing enough emotional stability, there's such a despair in the knowing whatever you do might not be enough. And even though married couples and "together" families all ...