My sister wants a puppy.You would think I’d be getting this kind of thing from my 5y/o and not my grown, 21y/o sister. “I want a puppy!”, she’d say at least a dozen times this year. “I’m getting a puppy!”, she..
Topics: blogging, cat, family, kids, Open letters, pet, puppies, puppy, Random stuff, single mother, The Abyss

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Last month (or so) I was hired as a columnist for a lovely online magazine called Lovemionline.com. I named my column “Love in the Time of Baby Wipes” as it has to do with the “dating” aspect of being a single mom. In my...
Topics: babies, blogging, dating, family, love, Parenting, relationship, single mother, single parent, toddler

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Happy New Year!It’s been FOREVER since my last blog post.  I’ve had some serious problems that demanded all my attention.  I hope to slowly get back into the groove of things.As most know, I was laid off in October.  That was the first of..
Topics: blog, blogging, computer, family, mac, narcolepsy, Random stuff, single mommy, single mother, single parent, The Abyss

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One of my worst nightmares – besides a ‘black/brown” color scheme – is something terrible while I’m alone w/ the baby.  Often I find myself doing strange things like unplugging everything in the house before going to bed or.
Topics: babies, baby, blog, blogging, Conversations with Baby, emergency, family, help, Random stuff, single mommy, single mother, single parent, The Abyss, toddler

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My Dearest Baby Sister,When ModCloth.com asked who I am most thankful for as part of their Thanksgiving Thank-a-Thon Blog Contest — my first instinct was to write about our mother. It’s probably most people’s first instinct … I...
Topics: aunt, babies, baby, blog, blogging, caregiver, caretaker, child rearing, children, Diary of a Single Mother, family, for all the ways you care, kids, motherhood, open letter, Open letters, Parenting, sibling, single mommy, single mother, single parent, single parenting, sister, toddler

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