Giving up for 2018
• January 10, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted in acceptance, adult, adulthood, adventure, aftermath, alone, bad day, belong, boyfriend, broken, can't sleep, career, careermom, cat, catlady, chaos, chaotic, child, chores, conversation, couple, date, dating, death, decisions, depression, disaster, divorce, don'tfuckup, emotional, emotions, end, ending, exploration, explore, fall in love, family, family history, feel, feelings, finding yourself, first day, fitness, functional, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, half marathon, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healing, health, healthy mom, history, home, honesty, humility, hurt, I love you, infidelity, insomnia, journalist, journey, kindergarten, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, lonely, love, love hurts, mature, maturity, memories, memory, mess, mess up, miranda lightstone, mom, mom blog, momblog, moments, mommy blog, mood, mother, motherhood, mountains, moving on, mum, mummy, new life, new people, new relationship, new year, new years eve, nye, nye2018, observation, obsession, ocd, open, opening up, overcome, pain, parent, parenthood, parenting, partner, past, patience, personal, personal growth, pet, plan, protection, recovery, relationship, relationships, responsibility, running, sad, safe place, school, self awareness, self discovery, single, single mom, single mother, single woman, singlemom, singleparent, sleep, sleep deprivation, sleepless, son, take a moment, take time, talk, time, travel, travelling, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, unfaithful, unicorn, voyage, walls, where you're from, woman, writer
Tags: 2017, 2018, adult, adulting, chase, chasing, emotional, emotions, give up, giving up, grow up, growing up, lessons, let it be, letting go, letting it be, life, life lessons, looking back, Miranda Lightstone, mistakes, mom, mom blog, mum, new years eve, nye, parent, parenthood, parenting, reflect, reflection
Firsts
• August 30, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in adult, adulthood, careermom, child, decisions, emotional, emotions, family, feel, feelings, first day, happiness, happy, journey, kindergarten, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, love, memories, memory, miranda lightstone, mom, mom blog, momblog, moments, mommy blog, mother, motherhood, mum, mummy, new life, new people, organization, organized, parent, parenthood, parenting, patience, personal, personal growth, school, self awareness, self discovery, single mom, single mother, single woman, singlemom, singleparent, son, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, unicorn, woman, writer
Tags: evolution, evolve, first car, first day, first day of school, first job, first kiss, first time, firsts, grow, growth, kindergarten, learn, lessons, life, life lesson, Miranda Lightstone, mistake, mom, mom blog, momblog, mommy blog, mother, parent, parenthood, progress, school, single mom, single mother, single mum
Aging vs. Adulting
• September 25, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in adult, adulthood, birthday, career, careermom, child, chores, death, emotional, emotions, end, ending, fall in love, family, feel, feelings, finding yourself, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, healing, health, healthy mom, home, honesty, humility, I love you, journalist, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, love, mature, maturity, miranda lightstone, mom, moments, mother, motherhood, mum, mummy, parent, parenthood, parenting, personal, personal growth, responsibility, sad, self awareness, self discovery, single mother, singlemom, singleparent, take a moment, take time, talk, time, toddler, travel, travelling, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, wife, woman, writer
Tags: adult, adulthood, adulting, age, aging, birthday, celebrate, compassion, dead, death, family, grow old, growing old, love, loved, loved one, Miranda Lightstone, older, parent, parenthood, parenting, passed away, passion, passionate, perspective, priorities, year older
When there’s no one else to say no
• May 20, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in adult, adulthood, alone, careermom, child, decisions, divorce, emotional, emotions, failed marriage, family, feel, feelings, finding yourself, grow up, growing up, grown up, grown-up, happiness, happy, hard decisions, healthy mom, home, honesty, humility, hurt, journalist, journey, lessons learned, life, life lesson, life lessons, life plan, life-changing, living, lonely, mature, maturity, miranda lightstone, mom, moments, mood, mother, motherhood, mum, mummy, overcome, parent, parenthood, parenting, patience, personal, personal growth, responsibility, sad, self awareness, self discovery, single, single mom, single mother, single woman, singlemom, singleparent, son, take a moment, take time, talk, time, toddler, truth, Uncategorized, understanding, wife, woman, writer
Tags: alone, angry mom, angry mother, angry mum, chastise, child, children, growth, learn, life, life lesson, lonely, Miranda Lightstone, no, no partner, parent, parenthood, personal growth, say no, scold, scold child, single, single mom, single mum, single parent, son, writer
To Escape or to Embrace?
• June 28, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in alone, bad day, emotions, life, lonely, mood, parenthood, relationships, single mom
Tags: accept, alone, career, depressed, embrace, emotion, emotional, emotions, escape, fight or flight, life living, lonely, parent, parenthood, rock bottom, single mom, work
The Cone of Shame
• March 28, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in cat, catlady, cone, cone of shame, healing, kitten, life, motherhood, moving on, parent, parenting, pet, recovery, relationship, single, single woman, surgery, woman
Tags: affection, cat, cone, desire, emotion, heal, healing, health, kitten, life, love, mother, motherhood, need, parent, pets, relationship, single mom, surgery, woman
Your Own Space
• March 5, 2015 • 3 CommentsPosted in alone, careermom, condo, first place, life, life lessons, life-changing, living, mom, mother, parent, single, singlemom, singleparent
Tags: adult, alone, condo, condo life, first place, grown up, live, living alone, mom, mother, moving out, parent, parenting, responsibilities, single mom, single woman, woman
That time I had an affair…
• January 29, 2015 • 14 CommentsPosted in affair, cheat, cheater, divorce, emotions, failed marriage, hurt, husband, infidelity, life lesson, marriage, parenthood, past, relationship, truth, understanding, unfaithful, wife
Tags: affair, cheat, cheater, cheating, couple, demons, emotions, hurt, infidelity, journalist, lesson, life, life lesson, Miranda Lightstone, motherhood, new mother, parent, parenting, past, real life, relationship, shit happens, skeletons in your closet, unfaithful, woman
Running is horrendous
• December 12, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in fitness, half marathon, health, healthy mom, mom, parent, running
Tags: 10km, advice, blogger, distance runner, distance running, fit, fitness, half marathon, health, healthy mom, help, htfu, journalist, marathon, Miranda Lightstone, moms advice, moms health, parent, parenting, run, runkeeper, runner, running, running buddy, running sucks, training, training program, writer
Wedged between motherhood and life
• November 25, 2014 • 3 CommentsPosted in career, careermom, mom, mother, motherhood, mum, parenthood, singlemom, singleparent
Tags: balance, balancelife, career, divorce, journalist, kid, life, mom, mommy, mommyblog, mother, motherhood, mum, mummy, mummyblog, parent, parenthood, run, runner, running, separated, single, singlemom, singlemum, singleparent, son, toddler, work, workingmom, writer