One Fish, Two Kids

When I first started dating again after my marriage ended, I had a fabulous time. See, my pre-marriage dating experiences were, um, limited and not so fun (even though they may have provided great story fodder later in life.) The post-marriage dating experiences, on the other hand, were an incredible ego boost. The first dinner date that ended up with us spontaneously driving to the beach (75...

I've really wanted to write here the last few months, but... Waaiiiit a minute That's so not true. See, I haven't felt like blogging about the whole 'divorced with kids' bit for a while now. I even passed up a seriously awesome blog opportunity - the totally tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of the second anniversary of my divorce on Valentine's Day this year. Why? For starters, I'm...

The minute one starts boasting about how one can 'handle it all' - well, that's when life proceeds to jump in and prove otherwise. As a result, I've been ignoring this little outpost, while barely posting on my original blog. And I've taken an explicit hiatus for the month of January from the third one. What's going on, you wonder? (Regular readers of MWIL already know this story;...

...or can I? When my ex and I first split up, I had a fairly high-powered job, with a salary to match. Luckily, I was able to flex my schedule as much as I needed to in those early days in order to cope with taking on all of the responsibility at home - I worked early in the morning from home in order to handle daycare drop-offs & worked late at night in order to justify leaving at the...

It's all too easy to fall into the holiday doldrums - and it doesn't much matter if you're just beginning your divorce journey or have been split up for years, managed to rebuild your life, and really like what you have now. Or maybe it's just me - even though I know I made the right decision several years ago, I still remember what it was like to build Christmas memories for the kids together....

Since it's that time of year, my ex and I are trying to stay coordinated on the gift-giving front. For me, that's actually pretty easy - I don't do much gifting, so only have to tell him what I'm getting so he can work around it. In years past, though, that unspoken carte blanche has caused, um, problems. Did both kids need to get a laser alarm system to carve out invisible territories in...

I don't know why I was a little nervous about going to the company party by myself. I knew other people weren't bringing dates. And I could have brought a date if I really had wanted to. I didn't feel as if I was being looked down on or pitied because I didn't bring someone with me. And, finally, I've become pretty social in my old age - I can talk to people fairly easily, get along well with...