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How to tighten your belt, single moms

So, how can we keep making our food budget ends meet at our middles? I’ve got some ideas, and I’ll gladly share them with you, single moms–and everyone else watching the bottom line...

Started in Solo Mother • 1 response • Last response by barbiedollgirl (797) • 5 months ago
Tags: budget
Oh yeah, a little something for Saturday night/Sunday morning

Don’t we all wish it could be so easy?Find more videos like this on My Single Parent Diary Tags: Ikea, single-mom, single-motherShare This

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: dating, ikea, single-mom, single-mother
Are you ready to tighten your belt, single mother?

The front page of last Sunday’s Washington Post was alarming: The New Economics of Hunger. Suddenly, everyone is declaring, hunger is coming. I’m worried about single mothers. I’m...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: budget, food, health, food crisis, food shortage
Are you panicking about plastics?

Baby bottles. Water bottles. Food storage. CD’s. Toys. Coffee pots. Water filters. Sippy cups. PVC pipes. Look around you. How much of the stuff you see is plastic? It’s everywhere, and...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: health, are plastics bad, bpa, plastic, plastic alternatives
are you wondering what you(r kids) can get you for Mother’s Day?

I don’t shop very often. I like the idea of shopping. I enjoy looking at things and dreaming about owning them… but I rarely buy things. Guess it’s that single income family life...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: spoil yourself, cool mom picks, good presents, hip, mother's day gifts
Peek into the b5media lifestyles channel and see where we work…

The Lifestyles Channel is inviting readers into their homes for a glimpse of our workspaces. There’s a place for every blogger, and a blogger for every place. I’ll leave it to you all to...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ritual, sanity, home, single-mom, single-mother
Where I write

Perhaps yesterday’s post, Sanctuary, gave you a glimpse into the changed life I lead as a single mother…I wrote that post at my new (to me) desk, a modern piece probably out of the...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ritual
You have to read this

There’s a bit of angst going around the Net lately. Bad things are happening to innocent people. Single moms and dads are wondering if they’ll ever go on a date again. You have to read...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: love, parenting, blended family, hip mamas, huge mistake
Sanctuary

All my life, I’ve felt this vague unease, this keening wail in the back of my psyche that cried, “I want to go home!” Didn’t matter where I was… in my apartment, in a...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: selp-help, health, inspiration, sanity, empowerment
Who’s da winnah? Bloggy giveaway winner right here, folks…

I’m so glad the King of Everything is going to be a scientist when he grows up, because he was such a help in figuring out the winner of the Bloggy Giveaways here on SoloMother. Yes, ladies and...

Started in Solo Mother • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: essential reading, bloggy giveaways, contest, single-mom, single-mother