The List Power of My Intentions

becoming a mother was something of an unusual situation for me. I was a single woman living alone working 70 hours and having fun the rest. I met a guy at a local bar on night after working 16 hours. I was going to stay in but my friend came to my house my house and invited me out. Now i am glad I went out. A month later i was looking at a positive pregnancy test in that girlfriends bathroom. That evening everything changed.Terry my daughter's father was all in and we moved in together. As Terry and I began our journey of meeting each other for real with impending parenthood we were thrown a curve ball. I got very sick from the pregnancy; this strong perky happy independent woman he met and was having a baby with was taken over. I was miserable being doomed to bed rest. And so many more things were going wrong I found out he liked to sneak nips not enough to be completely drunk just enough to ensure me he had had a problem i would not be able to fix. At five months pregnant another chapter was about to begin. Terry left and i was alone with two months rent unpaid, an uninsured car that smelled overwhelmingly of vomit, no phone, and no job. Always up to the challenge I began a list of what i needed to make myself not only back to where i was before this last four months but also make myself baby ready in another four months. I had finally found a pill that had helped me combat the sickness. I got an interview at a little old folks home, I never let on that i was pregnant and i got the job. that night i found somebody who would carpool and i managed a ride to work. I called my landlord and informed him I was back on to being me and i would be paying him weekly the past rent i had not been able to provide from the bed i had been doomed to. In two months I was back on. Rent was paid in full my insurance had been paid my car had been cleaned and on Jan 1 Terry came back at 2 a.m. asking to be us again. There were good times bad times yelling crying silence amazing and wonderful times and when Annie was 9 months old after being a stay at home nursing, baby wearing, house cleaning, playdate attending mother I became a single working mother. I moved into a smaller place slept on the couch worked every weekend and three days during the week and Annie is with her daddy every weekend. Fast forward I work 40 to 50 hours a week annie is with her daddy every weekend and i have another list of what i want and need to give my family what it needs on that list I want to work from home. So I am taking the things I know best about the things I care most about and I have put it on the web for you to view. This is my site a working mommy's journey. Please share as I go through the trials and tribulations of everyday life. I am going to take this little space and showcase what i care about most how to make the most out of my time how to make my balancing act work for me and how to give the best I can.