When I learned you were going to be part of my son’s life, I couldn’t breathe.
If She Wants To Be Something, She Can
There’s nothing to stop her from not only chasing after her dream, but catching up to it, grabbing the tail, and never letting go.
I Know It’s A Cliché, But We Grew Up Together
Believing in my capabilities as a young mother when I was only a little older than you are now was part survival instinct, part defense mechanism.
How To Kill It As A Modern Day Single Mama
You’re a beautiful, strong, loving, capable woman whose baby/toddler/child/teen is SO lucky to have you as a mama.
Am I Alone When They Are Gone?
Today, my children are with their father, instead of me. They are with him in the new home that he has created for himself, and them, separate from me.
What Are Moms Good For?
This got her going on how fun “dads” are. “Dads,” for example, “are adventurous and like to do things like jump off cliffs.”
You Are Not Alone, Single Parenting
Single parenting is all the same work without a teammate there to tap out with.
Nothing Lasts Forever
I always wanted a bumper sticker that read: SINGLE MOTHERS ARE THE STRONGEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. For I think now that life makes us strong if we let it.
The Strength To Be Alone
I was staying in a relationship because I was scared that I didn’t have it in me to be a single mom anymore, to do all of those things alone.
The Best Part of Me is Her
Even with the most difficult parts of single parenting included, my world has been on an uphill slope since my daughter entered into it.