Category: Single Mom
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10 Self Care Tips For Single Moms
In general, it’s tough being a mom. You don’t have the time to worry about yourself. You’re so focused on making sure everyone around you is taken care of. There are mom’s who don’t go to the Dr for themselves, but make sure everyone else has gone. Mom’s tend to be the first one out…
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12 Months of Grateful – January
This year I am doing a 12 Months of Grateful Theme – Posts will be on the last day of the month, one thing I am grateful for. We tend to hear so much negative in the news on any given day, it can be hard to focus on the good. Coming out of a…
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10 Fun Things A Single Parent Transitioning To The Empty Nest Can Do
I mentioned in a previous post that in a few years, I will be going through my empty nest years. I’ve been divorced 12 years and never thought I’d be going through those years on my own. While I love my daughter with everything in me, I know that it’s inevitable that she will be…
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8 Ways for Single Mom’s to Rejuvenate Their Souls
As a single mom I have my daughter with me 50% of the year. This would have been less if I had chosen not to sell my home last year and move closer to where my daughter’s father lives. Where my daughter chose to go to high school. With that said, single mom’s need time…
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Help Get Me Back into the Dating World in My 40’s
I’ve been divorced going on 12 years now. Separated 12 1/2 years. My daughter was 3 1/2 and I was 31. Since then, I’ve dated some. Had one relationship last almost a year and then dated some more. To be honest? I haven’t had a date in quite awhile. At first it was due to…
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RV Budgeting That Won’t Break the Bank. What Can the RV life Cost?
You all may remember a post I did on Six of my Favorite Campers. I went in and really researched what is out there that I could use if it were just me traveling. Now, keep in mind, I do hope to live in one while working from the road. That is my goal once…
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Ways to Save Money for a Major Purchase
My daughter turns 16 in three months. She will have her learners permit at that time. OMG. I am way too young to have a daughter who is about to start driving people! I mean come on now! How and when did this happen??? With that said, my daughter informs me that I need to…
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Empty Nest Years are Coming to a House Near Me
It has finally hit me. My daughter is going into her sophomore year of high school. I’m thinking ahead and quite a few things hit me! She will have her license this time next year We will be doing college tours in two years She will graduate in less than three years. She will be…
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Single Mom and a Short Sale
I mentioned in a previous post here that I recently moved from Delaware to Pennsylvania. I had a home that I was paying a mortgage on and had to take care of that before I moved. I knew I couldn’t sell the home. I had lost WAY too much money on it. I bought the…
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Winning Powerball??? Yes Please
Everyone is getting asked the question, “If you won the Powerball, what would you do?” Well, seeing as it is at approximately $800 million dollars? There is SO much we could do with it. After taxes, you figure, we should get, what, $500 million if we took it all? My daughter and I were talking…
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