After 8 years, I am finally starting to understand how math relates to motherhood. Like all those years ago in the classroom, I'm just figuring things out. I used to be pretty good at math, but parenting hasn't come as easily. Sometimes I wish I had a parenting calculator to arrive at the answer … [Read more...]
Real Moms Share Their Online Dating Experiences And Advice
I was out with a good friend of mine over the holidays and she mentioned that she recently updated her profile photo on her online dating site and all of the sudden she's garnering interest inquiries for coffee meet-ups. As a single mother with a full time job, it's not easy dating these days. Kelly … [Read more...]
Raising An Eight-Year-Old Boy With A Smile
My kid keeps me in stitches. I have never laughed so hard in my entire life as I have since I became a mom. This is why they are so awesome. Eight-year-olds are like sponges for information. Sometimes you need someone around who will give you a billion random facts about bamboo sharks but who … [Read more...]
Becoming The Disciplinarian After Divorce
There are a lot of things I do amazingly well as a mom. I'm loving, I'm understanding, I'm always on time for school pick ups and drop offs and I can always make my kids laugh. I wrestle with them, I play catch in the yard and only one time was my homemade apple sauce too cinnamon-y. But I am … [Read more...]
Three Years Of Being A Single Mom And I’m Thriving
This month marks three years since I became a single mom. I'm not going to write a "poor me" blog, because the truth is, I'm not sad at all. I'm not even going to cry one single, salty tear in honour of the end of my marriage and this new, often terrifying, journey I've been on ever since. Of … [Read more...]
Order Up! How Being A Mom Is Like Being A Barista
Who of us doesn't look into the kind eyes of our barista in the morning and think, "Thank goodness you are here!" before grabbing our all-important coffee? They really are like angels sent from caffeinated heaven. But I bet you never realized that being a mom is a lot like being a barista in many … [Read more...]
Letting Go Of The Mommy Guilt And Focusing On Me
I love being a student here in Halifax. I've been away from my kids for nearly two weeks and while I miss them terribly and can't wait to come home, I have a dirty secret: I am having a great time. I've met amazing people, I've explored a new city, my head is full of ideas and knowledge, and my … [Read more...]
The Scary Reality Of Pursuing Your Dream
I’m about to do something I never thought I’d be able to do. It’s been a dream of mine for 15 years, but once I had kids, once I got divorced, I assumed I’d have to let go of my dream. It was expensive, impractical, not possible for whatever reason. It had become more of a fantasy. Until all the … [Read more...]
Ending The Trip… The Guilt Trip
Will picked up a new skill on our vacation. It came out of nowhere and he's incredibly talented at it! No, it's not riding a two-wheeler, which I still have hopes will happen this week. It's not eating sushi, because if I had a picture of him popping that first california roll into his mouth with … [Read more...]
That’s Not My Name
I can relate to that little ditty by the Ting Tings "That's not my name". Since I've become a mom, I don't know who the heck I am. Not just in a morning coffee, my Starbucks cup rarely reflects my true identity kind of way. It's a form of suburban witness protection, I guess. I get extra L's, Y's, … [Read more...]
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