Raw and Honest Blog of a New Single Mom

I am a single mother of a biracial baby boy just trying to make it on my own. This journey is hard, yet rewarding. Blogging is my therapy, these words are my heart, and people doing better and being inspired by what I have written is my passion and hope.

Day Care

I’m kinda stressed right now and trying to get my life on track. Since my son was born I don’t get to work as much as I need to to keep us afloat. I make enough to pay the bills but anything extra comes out of my savings and now my savings is $100. [...]

Debt, Court, Health

I’m finally getting a mini time out from wrangling up the boy and working nonstop. My body is beyond exhausted from all this, plus the surgeries. sheesh.
Jack is pretty much doing everything now except walking independently and it’s blowing my mind. It’s like one day he could hardly crawl all that well and that [...]

So Much For Frugal Living ..

Is this not the cutest thing ever?

Seriously. How could I withstand the urge to buy an abundance of BabyLegs when leg warmers on my son’s little muscular legs just so happen to be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life? And you know cold weather if just around the corner …
So I reasoned [...]

Falling Into Place

I just realized, well I’m sensing, that things in my life are starting to fall into place. Not every thing, but some things. Important things.
For one, I just noticed that all of the toxic people in my life have been weeded out in some way or another. The last few people that I held on [...]

Lonely, Depressed, Distressed …

Today I just had a realization of how alone I am. How upside down my world is. How my life is nothing like I imagined. How I feel so ashamed and disappointed with myself.
Saying I’m alone could be a huge stretch, I do have family members, most of which are excited about my child .. [...]