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Since My Divorce: Learning and Growing

Since My Divorce: Learning and Growing

2017-06-14
By: Live by Surprise
On: June 14, 2017
In: Divorce, Divorced Moms, Featured Posts
With: 4 Comments

Divorce is a life changing event. It’s also an opportunity: to learn more about yourself and grow into the person you were meant to be. My divorce and my post-divorce situation have been one of the most difficult trials I’ve had to go through. But I like to feel thatContinue Reading

What Happens When A Writer's Son Can't Read?

What Happens When A Writer’s Son Can’t Read?

2016-05-30
By: Live by Surprise
On: May 30, 2016
In: Learning Disabilities, Motherhood, Parenting
With: 16 Comments

As they pulled my son from the fresh slice in my abdomen, he had a bluish tinge.  He was not crying.  Up to that point, I hadn’t spoken his name aloud: it was a secret that only he and I knew. “Why isn’t Puck crying?” I croaked, touching the nurse’sContinue Reading

Taking a Right at Albuquerque

2015-03-09
By: Live by Surprise
On: March 9, 2015
In: CoParenting, Divorce
With: 0 Comments

My life now seems to go in a continuous cycle.  Not in a bad way, like a merry-go-round that never stops.  It’s now like I’m on a road with two paths in front of me and a map of where I’ve been.  I keep looking at the map for cluesContinue Reading

How Do You Make Report Card Day Positive for a Child with Learning Disabilities? 1

Learning Disabilities: Making Report Card Day Positive

2014-02-26
By: Live by Surprise
On: February 26, 2014
In: Learning Disabilities
With: 2 Comments

Living with a learning disability means that report card day has been very difficult in the past. I think my son dreaded the report card almost as much as I did. Because the school insists that you go over the report card with your child. Which I totally understand. ButContinue Reading

Learning to Succeed - A Mother's Gift to her Children

Learning to Succeed: A Mother’s Gift to her Children

2014-02-13
By: Live by Surprise
On: February 13, 2014
In: Motherhood, Parenting
With: 0 Comments

It’s so hard these days to decide which type of parent you want to be. I want to supportive of my children. Yet I want to give them the room they need to figure out who they are and grow. Puck is a very cautious child. Part and parcel ofContinue Reading

When Should you Teach your Children to be Independent? 1

When Should you Teach your Children to be Independent?

2014-02-01
By: Live by Surprise
On: February 1, 2014
In: Motherhood, Parenting
With: 0 Comments

I face a continual struggle with my children’s birth father with regard to parenting techniques.  I work very hard to foster their spirit and independence and self-confidence.  My ex doesn’t understand because that isn’t the way he was raised.  He works hard to ensure the children are dependent on him,Continue Reading

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