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I've decided that being a single mom, hell being any type of mom is truly an art form. You really have no idea what it's going to look like when you start it, and every day it takes a new shape, some days it adds to the beauty, some days it's like a melting wax form that you are desperately trying to put the fire out from underneath so it doesn't lose shape! Either way we all make it work, some of us just manage to come up with more creative ways of getting things to work out then even we like sometimes.
Say for instance a day in my life, it poses itself similar to anyone else's, I get up, get myself ready for work, get my munchkin ready, pack up, drop him at daycare and go try and make peoples lives and smiles better one tooth at a time... It's as the day goes on that my life tends to take on a new shape. Sometime around mid morning I take my morning break to go "pump" since I am of course still a nursing mother in my other life. Well whatever else would a single working mother do with this 15 minutes that really can't be posed as anything but time to sit and well, um "express" something? Well what a perfect time to use my iPhone as a communication device and log into various said online dating apps...Now there ya go, first of quite a few variations to a "normal" mom, (oh yea still working on what this "normal" thing is). How many can say they sit and pump for breast milk while responding to online dating inquiries? Yup pick me pick me! And my day continues back to the norm for a few more hours...
Unless of course said day is say a Friday and I might possibly have a date planned for that evening. Well then it couldn't possibly get more interesting could it? Of course it could! I mean who gets to show up to a first date wondering if they have baby food splattered on their dress or in their hair, if they remembered to put in breast pads after they nursed last, and for good heavens how to NOT bring this up in the first 5 minutes of conversation! Oh yes I must act charismatic for at least 2 hours now, lets switch the hats from mommy hat to sexy single hat for a bit!
How does said date end? Well we for sure hope there isn't a desperate call from a sitter and I have to bolt early, although with most first dates I've had lately I have been praying for just such a call, even if it is just that the baby seems a wee bit fussy because he's constipated, well look out momma's on her way! No need to prolong the misery of first date hell...
Check back tomorrow, as it's a new day, and with the way things go around here you just never know what a new day with a blank page in the life of an online dating single mommy might hold...
Say for instance a day in my life, it poses itself similar to anyone else's, I get up, get myself ready for work, get my munchkin ready, pack up, drop him at daycare and go try and make peoples lives and smiles better one tooth at a time... It's as the day goes on that my life tends to take on a new shape. Sometime around mid morning I take my morning break to go "pump" since I am of course still a nursing mother in my other life. Well whatever else would a single working mother do with this 15 minutes that really can't be posed as anything but time to sit and well, um "express" something? Well what a perfect time to use my iPhone as a communication device and log into various said online dating apps...Now there ya go, first of quite a few variations to a "normal" mom, (oh yea still working on what this "normal" thing is). How many can say they sit and pump for breast milk while responding to online dating inquiries? Yup pick me pick me! And my day continues back to the norm for a few more hours...
Unless of course said day is say a Friday and I might possibly have a date planned for that evening. Well then it couldn't possibly get more interesting could it? Of course it could! I mean who gets to show up to a first date wondering if they have baby food splattered on their dress or in their hair, if they remembered to put in breast pads after they nursed last, and for good heavens how to NOT bring this up in the first 5 minutes of conversation! Oh yes I must act charismatic for at least 2 hours now, lets switch the hats from mommy hat to sexy single hat for a bit!
How does said date end? Well we for sure hope there isn't a desperate call from a sitter and I have to bolt early, although with most first dates I've had lately I have been praying for just such a call, even if it is just that the baby seems a wee bit fussy because he's constipated, well look out momma's on her way! No need to prolong the misery of first date hell...
Check back tomorrow, as it's a new day, and with the way things go around here you just never know what a new day with a blank page in the life of an online dating single mommy might hold...
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