Single Successes
There are a lot of hard things about being a single parent. A lot. And I could write a book on all of the hardships and how tired I am and how much I worry about raising my son properly and doing the...
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What a week this has been! I’m not too proud to say that it started off with tears and will probably end with tears, but in the middle? In the middle I had some pretty big successes. So without...
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This has been a week of struggles for me between the foot injury and the shot records and everything else. But along the way, I still had some good moments, because who are we kidding? Every week is 7...
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Oh this week… what a turnaround!! I’m sure it’s no surprise to anyone that 2011 has not been heavily lauded in my household. There’s been little more than seventeen shades of grief and heartache at...
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I’m not going to lie to you, it has been a long time since my Ex picked up J for a weekend and … dare I say it… I’m looking forward to a weekend by myself. I feel like I should almost be ashamed to say...
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This was my last full week of being married to my Ex. This time next week, I will be sitting in a court room, waiting for the the judge to hear evidence and grant me an uncontested divorce. I will...
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I’ve bailed on remembering what successes I had the last few weeks because I was having a hard time seeing the forest for the trees… the big, nasty, old and scary trees… but my horizon is clearing up a...
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This week was so short that I totally forgot it was Friday until suddenly… it was Friday! And now it’s Saturday and I still didn’t manage to post my Single Success post yesterday but you’ll all...
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Oh where to begin. I have had the most epic awesomeness of a day in the history of epic awesome days. It started out slowly, just trying to get things in line for my mediations. Around 10:30, my boss...
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Last night, my ex-husband wanted to Skype with J. We called but J wasn’t really interested. Finally, ex told J he loved him and I told J to say the same. Instead, J said “No, you tell daddy you love...
View ArticleI am Stronger than I Thought.
“I am stronger than I thought.” That’s what the T-shirt said, when I pulled it out of the packing envelope; the one sent to me by my sweet friend in Tennessee. The note enclosed said it was for...
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So I have to admit that I lied to y’all. Because I’m pretty sure that at some point in the past I said something like “this is my favorite age” or something similar about some age that is not five. And...
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