Sharing a kid is really hard. As some of you know I share my first child with her father. Though I have always had full custody, I have always felt it important for her to have and maintain a relationship with her father. He gets a VERY generous visitation schedule, and I am very flexible to his needs because, well he is of course so much more important than me and his life is so much busier and more difficult than mine. Sorry. I have my catty “single mom to dead beat dad” moments still. Even though we still don’t always get along, child support is random, and he’s always switching times, and canceling on his visits, I still want her to go when ever she can.

When being a young mother there are a lot of things that you aren’t ever ready for. Continue reading →