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OMG My Kid is Going to College
This post contains affiliate links, that just means it helps me to make a few coins. Last fall my oldest son went to college. I’m a first timer you see. First time with a kid out of the house. Mind you this major transition for both of our co-dependent selves. It happened during the pandemic, just months after losing my Mom and after an abrupt end to his senior year. He was the Class of 2020, the class of no prom, no senior skip day, no senior breakfast, and no awards program. Therefor, a very anxiety filled graduation ceremony. But he was doing it, although there were no awards program…
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A Creole Love Story…What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Always Stay There
In 2012, I was a struggling single mom raising two boys, 10 and 7. I was working two jobs, trying to be supermom and definitely not dating. I was 34 years old, divorced and okay with the fact that I would probably never get married again. I was over it and I found true contentment and happiness in the sweet, quiet life I had created for my boys and I. I wasn’t rich, I worried, I was tired one hundred percent of the time but I was happy. I felt like I had my cake and was eating it too in other words. One of my jobs at the time…