Bam Bam

I remember when I was pregnant with Lucca I would nap with hand on belly and dream of the son I would have:
He will be a poet.
He will be an intellectual, a bookworm, a gentle-natured, sensitive, theater appreciating, rumi-reading, poet.
He will not play sports.
For my baby-shower I kindly asked for no onsies displaying the typical [...]

Morning Jump!

Yes, I am a goofy single mom.
But this is for a friend overseas who sent me the Kids video and inspired me to make a tribute… If he only knew how happy this music makes me. [UPDATE: this "friend overseas" I spoke of is the same Man in Kentucky I am so in love with [...]

Can a Crib Be Made into a Functional Cage?

I’m seriously considering transforming Lucca’s crib– which he doesn’t use– into a functional cage–which momma will make him use.
Since around 14 months Lucca has been sharing the bed with me. Little man hercules was climbing out of his crib and staring up at me, togging at my down comforter crying “up! up!” We share a [...]

Daycare Guilt

Its 5:21pm. I have less than forty minutes to finish up the day’s Can’t-Do-With-Lucca list. Now that he is a year and a half he has become aware and very sensitive to the amount of time mommy spends at her computer. If I even so much look in the direction of my laptop when he [...]

Don’t Tell Your Married Friends But…

 
According to Bella DePaylo’s blog on Psychology Today,
“Women who are married are less intelligent than those who are divorced or separated or have always been single.”
Not that we should feel good about ourselves at the expense of others, but heck! feel good about yourselves, single mommas! Apparently our single-hood reveals our brilliance =)
Got any inclination [...]

Wednesday’s Word: Eudaimonic

 
All of us know what hedonism means, as in “My college years were spent in a hedonistic state of dionysian pleasures.” But now that we have become parents and have taken on the responsibility for the care, safety and feeding of little humans, it’s time to update our vocabulary and learn a new, more fitting word to [...]

Having Your Cake and Eating it Too…aka Dating

A couple of blog post ago I asked about whether or not it was possible to remain in single status and still be treated amazing by a guy.
Thanks to my best friend who is also a single mom herself, I have my answer:
Yes, we dating single mommas can have our cake and eat it too! 
When I told her about my [...]

Dead Beat Dad Drama

I know a lot of single dad’s that are the farthest thing from dead beats. So this post is DEFINITELY NOT about attacking baby daddys. Thru my experience on iHeart, I have had the chance to meet so many exceptional fathers whose story and dedication to their children would make any single parent proud…. Which [...]

Mashable Desires?

Last night at 1am, the man I have been seeing and I had the first “talk”, tackling the what, when, where, and why of “us”: What are we? Where are we going with this? Why do we like each other? and, the all important, When can we sleep together again? (answer: as soon as [...]

“Healthy” Absent Father Stories?

In Mary Pipher’s book Writing to Change the World she says, “Healthy cultures pass on healthy stories from generation to generation.”
This could also mean Healthy parents pass on healthy stories from generation to generation. What do you guys think?
I read Pipher’s quote and began thinking about it’s implications in my own parenting life.  In one [...]