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 ...
Parenting Struggles
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 ...
What a Great Weekend…Or not…
Being a mom is hard! I probably say this too many times, especially since I actually have a very easy going child... And I am talking not on the sense that parenting is hard, but that with parenting comes great pains and gains... What a rough weekend! Friday night ice skating at Germain Arena... and after ...
Aaaaw these old wounds…
I had a panic attack this morning and cried for 10 minutes. I am not supposed be crying. I am a healthy, successful, happy single mother of a wonderful little boy. But sometimes it feels like such a lonely journey... I left first day of second grade much more nervous than he did. Is he ...