Beam me up, Scottie: To Denmark Please!

Two weeks from today - I’ll be here.

With this guy…

And now it’s starting to set in.
I haven’t let myself think about it. I try not to get excited about things. Instead, I stay cool, calm … and then just a few days before it happens - I freak out. (more…)

A new smile.

Funny how little I care after seeing him in that much pain. Glad it’s gone. Sayonara dead tooth. Too bad though. Especially after all of the hard work Benjamin put into getting them in the first place… here is teething at 5-months… (more…)

Top 5 Single Mom Movies

1. E.T.
How long has it been since you’ve seen E.T.? It had been years for me. I completely forgot that Elliott’s mother is a single mom. Do you remember the scene in the kitchen with Elliott says “Dad would believe me.” Wow.
And Benjamin LOVES this movie. There are flying bikes, the moon, frogs, toys, an [...]

This shit ain’t easy (a bedtime story).

Today sucked. Everything caught up with me.

Working full-time, being a mom, trying to date - mix all of that with a good dose of self-doubt and you’ve got the ingredients for one grumpy mama. I’m also dead tired.
Last night Benjamin kissed me good night and prounced off to my bedroom, jumped into my bed [...]

Flirty texts… go away.

My phone has been on fire for weeks now.
The culprits? A number of men, some of whom I really want to hear from and the others… well, I think they definitely have me in one of those “fish nets.” They cast a text out to a several women they’ve gathered numbers for over time and [...]

The case of the missing tomatoes.

This summer I did something I’ve never done before… I planted six teeny tiny tomato plants.
I’m not a gardner. So this, as you can imagine, was quite an accomplishment.
I watered them, staked them and then the yellow flowers showed up, then the green little tomatoes. And Benjamin, like any 2.4 year old would be, has [...]

The Rebound Year

After I left my ex-husband I wanted a new one. Immediately.
I had been craving intimacy with him for two years and I was finally free to find it…with anyone. I was so blinded by my own desperation that I would check every man’s left ring finger… no matter who they were. I just wanted [...]

The oddest day.

You know those days when everything is off by a centimeter or an inch or a nanosecond. Today was one of those days. All clouded by the letter I wrote last night and then the dream that followed.
1. The dream. I was in love with Britney Spears’ brother. She doesn’t have a brother though. She [...]

A letter to my future husband.

This could be a letter to no body. To the air. To the moon. To whoever is listening. Because I may never get married again. But I just felt like writing a love letter to somebody … so why not him?
He who is a distant figment of my imagination but maybe if I start [...]

The Best of the Single Parent Blogosphere

Better late than never. You know the drill, but if not…
Because we’re single parents and we don’t have time to read a million blogs every week I use this post every week to highlight my favorites and let you highlight yours … DON’T BE SHY. Shameless self-promotion is strongly encouraged.
My personal favorites this week
MommyPie & [...]