A Single Mom Pro/Con of Sorts

     Being a single mom is a strange thing.  It definitely has its own brand of challenges and rewards.  Here is a short list of positives and negatives as I, as a single mom who has never really shared parenting with another person, see them.

Pro: When my kid does something really awesome, I get to take all of the credit.  If she excels at anything, I'm totally riding those coat-tails. 

Con: If she grows up to be a teenaged hoodlum, or ends up on the pole, I can't blame anyone else.  She better not. That's all I'm going to say.

Pro:  I don't have to discuss discipline/rules/guidelines/etc with another party.  I'm a control freak and I get to make ALL of the decisions. 

Con:  I can't pull the "You just wait 'til your father gets home and hears about this!" card.  I always have to be the disciplinarian and that can suck sometimes.

Pro:  I get all of those awesome school-made crafts for holidays.  I get the Mother's and the Father's Day cards made with pasta.  I love me some pasta cards.

Con:  I, quite literally, want to throat punch people when they ask if she'll be with her dad for Father's Day, or any other holiday.  Especially if they do it right in front of her.  Those are super-fun conversations to have with my four year old listening. 

Pro:  I get to see my little girl grow up and become more and more like me every day.

Con:  I get to see my little girl grow up and become more and more like me every day. 

Kids Say The Darndest

...and by darndest, I really mean weirdest, things.

While sitting on the potty with her feet resting on a step stool Kinz and I have this conversation:

"I should take my feet off of this stool so they don't fight.  If they have the stool between them, they can't fight with each other."

"Do your feet fight with each other a lot?"

"Yes, all the time.  I try to make them listen but sometimes they don't.  When they don't listen, I call them snakes.  My snake feet don't listen."

Then she hops up and acts like this weird conversation didn't happen and asks for some raisins for a snack.

Serendipity

Every Christmas, I look forward to Serendipity being on tv. This is my one sappy-love story-chick flick-guilty pleasure movie and I watch it every single year. The idea that two people are brought together years after meeting by some devine circumstance is intriguing to me.

As much as I deny it to the world, and even to myself, I am really a hopeless (hapless?) romantic and I want some sort of fairy-tale story to tell my kids and grandkids. I have been single now for a really long time and I think that's why. I didn't want to settle for anything less than a Hollywood style romance.

I recently came to realize that serendipity, or fate, or whatever you want to call it does not have to involve a chance run-in with someone from your past.  In fact, that ideal almost never works. There's usually a reason someone is part of your past. It was a long and bumpy road for me to get to where I am right now. To pull someone from a previous chapter would almost be denying the fact that I have grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years.

I have decided that my new personal definition of serendipity is two complete strangers meeting due to a completely random set of circumstances. Whether its while traveling and meeting someone, or meeting a person who is new to your area and finding out they quite possibly could be what you have been searching for all along. Serendipity.

Oh, and by the way...I have a new boyfriend ;-)

Ask and You Shall Receive

A few days ago, I jokingly Tweeted about wanting my friends to get me an eHarmony membership for my birthday (Sept 7) because being 30 and single is depressing and slightly loser-ish. I was mostly joking, but the powers that be--the Gods of eHarm--think I am just pathetic enough that I need a free membership.


After a few back and forths with their contact on Twitter, they are sending me my very own free membership card. I don't know if I can seriously use a dating site to find love or whatever, but at least it will be fun. And honestly, if I can get a few free dinners out of it...


Anywho, once I get the card and get everything all set up, I will be chronicalling my foray into the world of online dating. At least for funsies.

Father's Day Hodgepodge

So, today is Father's Day. Apparently, Hallmark has not yet expanded their greeting card market to cover dysfunction in America. So, since they have left a whole in the market just waiting to be filled, I am starting my own line of greeting cards for the "real" American family. First one to be designed is a Father's Day card for Kinz to send to her very own "father".
The text will be this:

Dear Dad,

Thanks for being a deadbeat and ignoring me my whole life. Hope you never need a kidney or anything. Happy Father's Day.


What do you think? Awesome right? I think so.

Monday Morning Good News Gazette

A 3 year old girl saved her dads life after he accidentally took a deadly combination of prescriptions.  He passed out and wouldn't wake up so she walked 2 blocks down the street to a fire station and told the firemen that her daddy was frozen and would not wake up.  Daddy is now fine.

The war in Iraq is over.

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Well, It's About Damn Time

It's been quite a while since I have last posted, and I would like to say I have just been busy and what-not, but no. I have just been lazy. And uninspired.

But today is your lucky day because even though I am still lazy and uninspired, I am also bored.

So, here's an update: Kinzy is now 2 years old. My mom baked her a Mickey Mouse cake for her birthday that was really cute. I bought her a pair of roller skates, and she actually seemed to enjoy skating, so I can cross that off of my bucket list (see posts down below). I have been working hard, hardly working and (kinda) looking for a new job. Kinzy started at a new school that she really seems to enjoy, so although it is really draining me financially, I think we will make it a long term thing. That's about all I can think of for now. I am really going to make a concerted effort to post more often, so here's to hoping I can overcome my lazy ways.