Kristo’s 5th Birthday Mini-Field Trip!!!

To have a birthday party or not to have a party, that was the question for Kristo's 5th birthday. I felt that things are different now that he's a "little man" -- Kristo knows what he wants and what he doesn't enjoy. That being the case, I asked him to choose between having a birthday…

Cigarette Stick Candy?! Seriously?!

Cigarette Stick Candy? Seriously?! What's up with that?! As Kristo and I walked down the candy aisle at our favorite supermarket, just after we decide to get the "Gummy Mummy" (rather than gummy bears or gummy worms), I saw this: Yes, it is what it says it is. Cigarette Stick Candy. I have no idea…

Confessions of a single working mom

I was all over the place, running around like a headless chicken....Because I claimed the title "single working mom"..I felt I had the right to be really busy with work, that it was ok to take on side-jobs and that being extremely tired when I got home was perfectly understandable, after all, I paid the…