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While most of my reading compatriots were enjoying the excitement over each new Harry Potter release I sat back and watched. At the time I was in my full on reading snob mode and didn’t feel the need to lower my literary standards for the likes of a young adult book about magic and wizards, [...]
Filed under: 2009, book, bookshelf, daughter, literature, parent, raising a reader, reading, single mom, single parenting | Tagged: Harry Potter | 7 Comments »
I’m the first to admit that I’m horrible at keeping in touch with people. I rarely return a phone call and there are times when even a quick email is just too much for me.
I have been known to get into lengthy email discussions with friends and then just drop off the face of the [...]
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This evening I attempted to take a bath. The act of bathing isn’t that difficult. It’s pretty simple actually. You run some water. You sit. Well that’s not the case when you are a single Mom and you’re attempting to take said bath while both of your kids are awake.
The first obstacle in the [...]
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Yesterday, I started writing a post about guilt. My guilt. The guilt that I feel the two weekends a month that my daughters go to stay with their father and the excitement that I feel at having two precious and quiet days to myself. I started writing about how as a Mom it feels wrong [...]
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It’s ridiculously cold in Wisconsin! Today is the second day in a row that school was canceled as a result of the subzero temperatures. Yesterday I had to work and on my way to drop the girls off at the babysitter’s house I snapped a picture
This morning the air temperature is supposed to be [...]
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Two and a half years ago I moved out of the house that I had previously occupied with my former spouse and moved into a small, cozy two bedroom duplex in town. My living alone experience prior to this was … um… ZIP, NADA, ZILCH. Sure I had went off to college but I spent [...]
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Sometimes I think about how much the single Mom gig thing sucks. Then I remember how much more it sucked being married.
Then I smile!
Filed under: divorce, single mom, single parenting, thoughts | 4 Comments »
