Posts from the “Single Mama” Category

Dear Ms. Love n Happiness: The Case of the No Strings Status

Posted on August 14th, 2012

Dear Ms. Love n Happiness, Let me start by saying that I am a single mother to a fabulous little girl. After it became clear that things with her father and I were not going to work out, I could not even comprehend the idea of dating. When I finally did date, I gave it my all. I dated and dated and dated some more. After giving it what I consider a very fair shot, I determined that dating sucks! Then I met Paul, a guy who I have been seeing for about two months. When we started “seeing” each other, it was understood that it was casual, fun, and that there were no strings. Since then, our fondness for each other has…

Categories: Dating, Dear Ms. Love n Happiness, Family, Humor, Love, Moms, Parenting, Single Mama, Single Mother

Tagged: Advice, Children, Dating, dating a single parent, Relationships, single mom, Single parent

Top Ten Christmas Miracles of 2011

Posted on December 27th, 2011

The Holiday Season has been so good to me that I almost expect it’s up to something. You know that feeling you get when your Significant Other unexpectedly treats you to a super special dinner and in the back of your cynical little mind you think, “Is he boinking the blonde in accounting?” Or when your boss gives you lavish praise and you wonder, “Am I on the list for lay offs?” Yeah- Christmas has been that kind of good. Some would say it was a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!! No ghosts came to escort me through portals of time and I spent no time conversing with an angel named Clarence. They are small miracles I suppose but none the less they are mine. Christmas miracle #1:…

Categories: Childhood, Family, Fun & Shenanigans, Happiness, Humor, Love, Moms, Parenting, Single Mama, Single Mother, Spirit, Uncategorized

Tagged: Bouncy Balls, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Hello Kitty, Holiday, Momma, Opinions, Santa

“Dear Ms. Love n Happness,” Like Dear Abby off her meds.

Posted on November 22nd, 2011

Dear Readers (all two of you), You lucky dog! You have experienced me bending your ear about my wack-a-do problems. Now it’s your turn. I thought it would be fun to experiment with a “Dear Ms. Love n Happiness” feature on my blog. Like this one: http://mslovenhappiness.com/2011/11/09/chicken-soup-for-the-soul-or-dear-ms-love-n-happiness/ and I could really, really use your help. Could you PRETTY, PRETTY, PRETTY please take a moment out of your crazy-ass life to do two things: 1) Jot down a question about life and fire it off to me. @ ms.lovenhappiness@gmail.com Don’t worry! You and anyone you speak about will remain completely incognito, unless of course you are glutton for glory. Fear not! If you don’t have the time to craft a cutesy question, it could be a simple prompt. Think…

Categories: Crazy Shiz, Dating, Dear Ms. Love n Happiness, Family, Fun & Shenanigans, Humor, Love, Moms, Parenting, Relationships, Single Mama, Single Mother, Spirit, Story

Tagged: Dear Abby, Family, Home, Mike Myers, Mother, Parent, Relationships, Sibling

The Amish Instinct

Posted on October 25th, 2011

“You’re just going to let me leave the hospital with this baby?” I asked cocking my head towards the bundle in my arms. “Don’t worry Mom, you’ll do fine!” Cassie, a god send in scrubs, tells me. “Do they teach you labor and delivery nurses to call your patients Mom? Is that some sort of Jedi mind trick you are using on me to increase my confidence? “I have rolled some women outta here with babies in tow whose maternal instincts were questionable at best. Trust me, you got this. You got the instincts.” “Yeah, well don’t forget the cat-like reflexes.” “Rarrr.” I whisper into my babies tiny ear. “Rarrr!” Cassie claws the air by my ear and parks my wheelchair on the curb. We wait…

Categories: Family, Love, Parenting, Single Mama, Single Mother, Spirit, Story

Tagged: Airports, Cassie, Maternal instinct, People Watching

An Open Love Letter . . . To Target.

Posted on October 18th, 2011

My Darling Target, how I love thee. It is true that while in your presence I’ve been known to black out. When I awake I have purchased fuzzy Christmas socks in August, a dozen bottles of mini nail polish, jeggings and a Hello Kitty cookie jar, and somehow these items came to a total over a hundred dollars. That’s ok, because, your little red bull’s eye came to represent a beacon of hope to me. Nine months pregnant, feeling like too much of a whale to be in public and slowly going crazy back at the nest, you were where I would turn. Of course, you are one of a kind to me, but with your many locations I could pick a store off…

Categories: Love, Moms, Parenting, Relationships, Single Mama, Single Mother, Story, Uncategorized

Tagged: Beyonce, Cosmetics, Flash Mob, Hello Kitty, Home, Shopping, Sonia Kashuk, Starbucks, Target, Target Corporation

Every Time You Go Away, or putting your heart on the line

Posted on October 13th, 2011

My custody papers inform me: “It is in the best interest of the child to have a close and continuing relationship with both parents.” And while I believe this to be true, let me tell you, joint custody can be a bitch. I would be a bold-faced liar if I said that I didn’t have my complaints about my ex’s parenting style — it makes me insane the way he manages to rarely be able to dress Leo in clothes that are seasonally appropriate or to get him down for a nap on the weekends. I could go on griping, I suppose most of us can do a bang up job bitchen about our exs. But, to be honest, I know how hard it…

Categories: Family, Humor, Love, Parenting, Single Mama, Single Mother, Spirit

Tagged: Health, Single parent, split custody, visitation

What to Expect When You Were NOT Expecting.

Posted on October 4th, 2011

“Either you got a boob job or you are prego. Your boobs look HUGE!” Lynn announces. It was the end of a busy night at the restaurant where I waited tables and I was hunched over wiping down a shelf full of condiments. I took a deep breath, put down the mini mustard and say to Lynn, “Unless the University is giving out student vouchers for books and a boob job, I think it’s safe to say I must be prego.” Lynn’s face turned the color of the ketchup I was wiping and I could have swept the floor with her jaw. Normally I would have fallen over laughing at her reaction, but I had only known that I was unexpectedly expecting a baby…

Categories: Moms, Parenting, Relationships, Single Mama, Single Mother, Story, Uncategorized

Tagged: Alka-Seltzer, Family, Home, Manolo Blahnik, Mother, Pregnancy, Unintended pregnancy, What to Expect When You're Expecting

Shakespeare in Divorce

Posted on September 12th, 2011

To Thine Own Self Be True . . . Besides boys and drinking, in college I studied literature. Yet, sadly I have to admit that my knowledge of Shakespeare goes about as far as Mel Gibson’s Hamlet to that one hit wonder from the early 90’s by his sister’s name. However, I am absolutely gaga for the Bard. Or, at least I am supposed to be— a bookish girl who always loved words tends to make heroes and saints out of all writers, even the ones of which she is not entirely familiar. Then about four years ago, I fell even deeper for Shakespeare when I ran smack into him in Brooklyn. Rather, I ran into some of his words. Although they were written…

Categories: Crazy Shiz, Dating, Humor, Love, Relationships, Single Mama, Single Mother, Story, Writing

Tagged: NYC, Shakespeare's Sister

Thank You Girl

Posted on July 28th, 2011

“Oh, thank you!” says my three and a half-year old son. I respond with an automatic, “You’re welcome”, not even pausing to consider what Leo is thanking me for. I am trying to hover over the toilet at the burrito joint where we sometimes go when I am simply too exhausted to cook or to pick up something from the grocery store. In other words, we go there a lot. While hovering, I am reading a text from my boss about something that could have waited for business hours. All the while I am trying to keep an eye on the door since Leo has a habit of throwing open the door before I have pulled down my skirt. “No Momma. I was not thanking you.” …

Categories: Childhood, Family, Moms, Parenting, Single Mama, Single Mother, Spirit, Story

Tagged: God, Gratitude, Momma, Paper towel, Saying Thank You, The Beatles, There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

Love & Happiness

Posted on July 28th, 2011

Should you ever be misguided enough to ask for my advice, I always begin with, “Well, I remember the time that. . .” You’ll roll your eyes & wish you had kept your big mouth shut. Perhaps you are wondering if you should go on a date with your co-worker. You know the brooding one that always stands just a little too close to you while in line for the fax machine? Yeah, that one. You decide to ask me about it & for some reason I launch into a story about the time I almost quit the fourth grade talent show, but instead I served up some of the finest Michael Jackson lip-syncing any one clad in a pink tutu has pulled off…

Categories: Crazy Shiz, Family, Humor, Love, Parenting, Relationships, Single Mama, Single Mother, Spirit, Story, Writing

Tagged: Ally McBeal, Funny, Happiness, Lip sync, Michael Jackson, Remember the Time