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Children are not Mini Adults Thumbnail Children are not Mini Adults Thumbnail

Image: Simon Howden / FreeDigitalPhotos.net My sons are pretty mature for their age. I don't coddle or baby them, not because I don't want to, but because as a single mother, I don't have the time.  I never realized just how much I treated them like mini adults until recently when I was talking to my youngest. [...]

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My Man Child Thumbnail My Man Child Thumbnail

Karl, my teen, passed a milestone this summer. He turned 16. We didn't celebrate with a Sweet Sixteen, as girls do. We had a STRONG Sixteen, celebrating his strength and his journey to manhood.   We had family and friends over for a small, intimate party to allow for conversation. It was amazing! I saw my teen enjoying fun [...]

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For My Man Child's birthday, we wanted to do something different. We wanted a cake that would be a centerpiece,  that would make Karl's birthday unique. We searched high and low, checking bakeries and doing google searches yet could not find anything that said, "This is IT!" With just a few weeks before his birthday,  YouCake offered [...]

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When Is 9 Ever Old Enough? Thumbnail When Is 9 Ever Old Enough? Thumbnail

If you follow me on Facebook you already know Andrew, my 9 year old, was accepted into a gifted private school. As excited as I am about his acceptance, I have to tell you I'm scared. Why? My 9 year old will have to take public transportation by himself. The school does not offer bus service in [...]

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Two More Days! Thumbnail Two More Days! Thumbnail

Karl at 9 months This week has been a very special week for Karl, my teen. Normally he drags himself out of bed by 11 or 12 but not this week, its too exciting! Per my previous post, he started his FIRST JOB! He is working in an Unnamed Corporate Office as a paid intern, [...]

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I Wept Thumbnail I Wept Thumbnail

  I wept today. Unabashedly, with no remorse. I wept as only a woman can, as only a Mom can, while watching her child hit a milestone. I wept and I felt... Alone. I have no one to share my joys, my sorrows, my memories. I am a single Mother. Their head. For better or for [...]

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I love you. This is not the quick I love you said at the end of a phone call or shouted as you run off to school. These three words are the ones that stay in your heart forever, long after I am gone. Not because of anything you've done or do, although we both [...]

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