tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20116606367166042362024-09-21T17:30:25.443-05:00Venting, ranting, bragging, seeking peace and quiet in a divorced-mommy household.Heather K. Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13635707291691235911noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011660636716604236.post-58930848179936621762009-02-17T10:59:00.003-06:002009-02-17T13:46:10.607-06:00

I was in Jamestown last week because of a counseling appointment for Sam, and afterward, we took some time to browse the shops in the local mall. There was a little crafty store that sold plaques and candles and rustic-looking home decor that caught my eye, so I warned Sam and Kiki it was a "breakable" store and went inside. Kiki immediately headed to a display for those peel'n'stick words for

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Sam and I just got home from another trip to Minneapolis to visit the Shriners Hospital. My son has idiopathic toe walking, which simply means Sam walks on his toes. His orthopedic specialist prescribed serial casting (articles on serial casting are coming soon!), which involved six weeks of casts and traveling back to Minneapolis every other week to get them changed. But now, Sam is out of the

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I just now got a phone call from Sam's elementary principal. She received the email I sent out Sunday to Sam's IEP team, detailing the information I was given by the music teacher regarding Sam's expulsion.I am happy to report that Sam is not expelled from music class and never was. The principal didn't know why the music teacher would say something like that. She said, "We would never expel a

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I haven't mentioned this before, but my son, Sam, is a special needs child. He was diagnosed last year as having ADHD and PTSD, but I don't agree with that diagnosis. But because of that diagnosis, he was able to get help in school from the special education department and from that, get on an IEP (Individualized Education Plan).Personally, based on a lot of things, I think Sam has Sensory

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With Valentine's Day right around the corner, I've started thinking about how to celebrate. As a divorced mommy, I tend to want to ignore Valentine's Day altogether. But then an assignment on Associated Content got me thinking about the Anti-Valentine's Day. So I wrote a humorous little something-something on it.Anti-Valentine's Day: Five Ways to Celebrateby Heather K. AdamsFive ways to celebrate

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I think my biggest pet peeve about parenting in general is the noise. Sam and Kiki are constantly making noise, and it wears on my sanity! Because I'm a divorced mommy, I can't just leave the kids in the care of their father so I can get some quiet time either.I suspect Sam has Asperger's Syndrome, and he's always obsessing about television shows ~ "saving" them in his head to act out later. We

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What's the difference between being a divorced parent and a single parent, you may ask?A single parent, in my mind, is one who has always been single. Either the other parent is unknown or one who split before or soon after the child was born, leaving the child in the sole care of the other parent.A divorced parent is one who starts out in a relationship, then adds children to the mix. In my

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Being a divorced mommy means continuing to incorporate traditions from both sides of the family. My ex and I had very distinct New Year's traditions that I plan on carrying on with my children.My ex's New Year's tradition was to stay up until midnight, no matter how young you are, and to count down the final 10 seconds of the year. I think that's a fairly common New Year's tradition, but when I

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My kids were young when I divorced their father. Sam was five and Kiki was three. But their father and I were separated two years before the divorce was ever final. Kiki was just a baby, not quite a year old, when her father moved out. This is all she's known.Sam, on the other hand, was three, and a very smart three. After his father moved out, he was filled with questions and wishes. "Mommy, you

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Hello and welcome! On Divorced Mommy, you will find advice, rants, humor, and touching moments, all taken from living the life of a divorced mommy of two children.I'll laugh, I'll cry, I'll get angry. Hopefully you'll join me in the ups and downs of my life as a divorced mommy, and I hope you'll learn something too.I'd like to start with a touching moment. This story is about the first time my

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