Yesterday I discovered Savannah has not been telling me the truth about doing all of her homework. It’s not that she’s a bad kid she is just a little scatterbrained and procrastinates like crazy. Also as I’ve mentioned before her teachers so far have not put a big emphasis on learning good study habits.
Honestly, it didn’t [...]
I have been under extreme amounts of stress lately. I’m a single mom desperately struggling to make sure I don’t do any long lasting emotional damage to my two beautiful, super smart children. Even though Savannah has chosen to begin adolescence at seven years old, clearly stating her hatred for me every thirty minutes, and [...]
June 3, 2009 - 4:32 pm
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My all time favorite children’s book is If You Give a Pig a Pancake.The story is a day in the life of a very distracted pig. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it. I totally relate to that little pig and the story inspired the following.
I call it If Maya Needs to get [...]
Sometimes as parents we realize that there are important life lessons in all the little things we do.
Two important things I was able to teach my children without even thinking about it:
1.Don’t draw on your face because mommy is going to forget to wash it off in the mad rush to find two matching socks [...]
As you have probably guessed I am single. Like a lot of nutsos out there I decided to try out online dating. My ex asked me today to compose a match.com profile for him. I thought I would share mine just to give you an idea of how dating is going.
Bitter, Jaded, Excessive Emotional Baggage. [...]
May 1, 2009 - 12:40 am
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I am often accused of having anger issues.
My most recent accuser was my seven year old daughter.
This accusation did not lead to her being sent to her room with no dinner, and no breakfast just to be sure I had proved my point.
It did lead to a very revealing conversation. I was able to explain [...]
June 18, 2009 - 5:31 pm
Yup I totally agree with you! Mel Gibson is the devil. Dropping by to say thank you for visiting my blog on my FB day over at SITS.