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.

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 [...]

The Dreaded Baby Weight

There’s only so long I can use the excuse “I just had a baby” or “Hey! I gained 70 lbs throughout my pregnancy” to explain my ill-fitting clothes, muffin top, jiggly gut, wide ass, fat thighs .. and so on. There’s only so long that I can give into cravings and eat 4 whole Snickers [...]