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Tag Archives: Single Parents
The family smoothie
If current research is to be believed then step or blended families are the fastest growing family type in Australia today. The increasing divorce rate, the search for happiness and meaning and a woman’s capacity to say no when … Continue reading
Riding in cars with…kids.
Image from here When trauma and loss happen most of us know what to do. We know who to call, where to seek help and what we can (kind of) expect about the ways to cope. I guess we’re the … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Parenting
Tagged Ambiguous Loss, Family, Resilience, Single Parents
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Lifelit?
Image from here We seem to like to classify things into neat buckets. There are a gazillion sites and Facebook pages for decluttering and reordering, we spend so much time reorganising our stuff rather than reorganising our selves. Books breathe … Continue reading
Warrior Woman Moves
Ive never been one of those people that plots and plans the coming years. Maybe its the vicarious trauma of working in the welfare field. Life happens when you least expect it. Its easy to let the crap anniversaries overshadow … Continue reading
I am Julia Roberts…
In that movie Stepmom – except for the whole Susan Sarandon dying thing. Ive been in a bit of a funk this week, all these thoughts swirling around my head about turning half way to 70. Yes, I have the … Continue reading
Seeking solitude
I was listening to a program on Radio National this morning about solitude (its fab, listen here). I was listening while in the garage trying to run trying is the operative word on the treadmill and wondering if all the cards … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Parenting
Tagged Family, Me, Single Parents, What I'm Grateful for
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Powderpuffs and words
This wasnt really my dress but I reckon my daughter would have preferred it. Image from here I was fixing up my girls room today…sorting the old to make way for the new. Chapter books to replace the picture ones, … Continue reading
The sound of silence
I actually love Love actually, actually. There arent many moments in life where you get that chance to have that moment. You know those ones where the world and all its chatter stops and you hear some music in the … Continue reading
George Costanza and me
Image from here Seinfeld was a great show….I miss George the most. One of the episodes that made me laugh (other than the one where he ate cake out of the bin…I would never do that) was when he was … Continue reading
the single parent hangover
image from here I had to go away from home last night. Easy some might say, a chance to escape the school run, lunchboxes, life in general. But its not so easy. I havent been a single mum technically … Continue reading
