I became a single mom on Thanksgiving

Best holiday gift ever?

Disclaimer: my kid might very well disagree with the following, but I think the best gift you can give to your child this season is: connection.
That’s right: making your children feel special isn’t about buying new, fancy things for them — even if they’re begging. (You should hear mine asking for that Nintendo DS lately…)
“Things,” [...]

I became a single mom on Thanksgiving

Looking back, I should have seen the signs. He was drinking more. He wasn’t sleeping. When he was, he crashed in the other room.
Just before Thanksgiving in the year 2000, Mae’s father told me he wouldn’t be coming with us to my cousin’s house, where we’d planned to spend the holiday. Instead, he wanted to [...]

Make room (and time) for you!

“Clutter has everything to do with single motherhood,” says Dr. Leah Klungness, author of The Complete Single Mother: Reassuring Answers to Your Most Challenging Concerns. “How can good things come into your life when there is literally no room?”
Well said.
Dr. Leah wrote to me this week with some terrific advice for the upcoming [...]