Allow me to introduce myself.

I am a single mother, a truly single mother, not an unmarried/divorced mom. Not to say this makes me any more or less special, but I have truly been doing my thing with my baby girl in tow. No dad in the picture; No child support, no weekends with daddy, no Christmas or birthday money sent, no help from the other side of her gene pool AT ALL.

Again, I'm trying to get all high and mighty, but there is a huge difference between being a single parent, like me, and being a divorced or unmarried parent. Go ahead, cuss me out all you want, but it's true, and now that you've thought about it, you know it is. Albeit, there is a whole other set of issues that comes with dealing with the other parent. Not quite sure which is worse.


My daughter is 10. I gave birth to her two and a half weeks after I turned 20. That makes me 30. And that freaks me out. So four years ago I went back to school. I will graduate in the spring. I've done some interesting things in my life, but it was suddenly oh so crucial to get my ass in gear. No more running around being a flighty and free... It was fun while it lasted.


'What's so special about that,' you might ask right about now, 'tons of single mom's go back to school'... Well, yes, but it's not easy. We live in a society with laws and practices in place that do not fit the unconventional direction we went in. That's to say we live in a white picket fence, cookie-cutter world, and my little family is super messy. No, most families don't look like Leave it to Beaver now, but they at least have mom and dad, even if they don't live in the same house. Juggling the child, school, work and my own sanity in a system built for two parents has never quite worked for me. The journey has been hard, long, but also, it's been fun.


I'm sharing my adventures, my adventures as a MILF. Yes, a MILF. I'm still young, I'm still hot, I'm still learning. I did not give up and just become "mom". There will be flashbacks and current events as this little family sails into another level of life. To protect the innocent I've changed the names: my daughter is Snot-face (don't judge me), my boyfriend (the new edition) is San Francisco. Me, I'm just Mommie.

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