October 2012
2 posts
A year ago today…
Where do I start? Life just didn’t work out for me. I had to move back home with my mom while at school. I wasn’t working. Me and Aaron were barely on speaking terms. A week before today my mom told me she wanted me to find somewhere else to stay.it wasn’t working ….gave me lists of shelters and all. She said she paid for a hotel for 2 nights and...
A year ago today…
Where do I start? Life just didn’t work out for me. I had to move back home with my mom while at school. I wasn’t working. Me and Aaron were barely on speaking terms. A week before today my mom told me she wanted me to find somewhere else to stay.it wasn’t working ….gave me lists of shelters and all. She said she paid for a hotel for 2 nights and...
September 2012
1 post
August 2012
7 posts
I had a friend come to me and say Deedee I’m so angry and I need advice. She tells me about the drama with her and her child’s dad and how she keeps wanting him to step up so she’s doing all these things to make him be a father and asked what I thought about it. This is advice people ask me about all the time because they just assume I know it all. Not at all. My head is held...
My son is holding his pee and waiting until its potty time to use the restroom, developing a bladder. I’m about to have a mental breakdown lol. He’ll be in underwear completely by the 26th of September. Believe that!
aspiringeverything asked: I always love when you write about your life as a young mother. So may people judge young mothers without ever thinking about the true dynamics of being a mother, regardless of age. You really show people what it's like with your posts.
Before summer starts I always say this will be my summer and it never happens. This year was a different story though…This was really hands down the best summer I have had in forever. I didn’t have any expectations and had no idea how things would go with me moving but I absolutely loved it.
I can see how much things have changed in 3 months. Darren is a lot more independent. He...
Food for thought...: Why black women should date... →
romeomustdie:
I came across a post about why black men prefer white women today. I read it and was not amused (it was meant to be funny apparently). I wondered if the men would find it as funny if I wrote some as offensive reasons to date white men instead of black men. Probably not, but here you go! Their…
I haven’t been on Tumblr in so long but I’m trying to change that. With me transitioning to a new life and working full time, getting everything straight I am beyond exhausted. It’s a grateful exhaustion though.
I went to court today and my emotions are sort of outta wack. I won’t lie, I had hoped and crossed my fingers that my gut feeling was wrong, but intuition is...
June 2012
6 posts
On the other hand I don’t really know how I feel about today for my own son’s sake.
Darren,
One day you will sit down and ask me about your dad. Hopefully the question will be why aren’t you two together instead of, where is he/why isn’t he around. Right now, he isn’t around. Am I mad about it? No. Did I used to be? Yeah. If I sat down right now and said Darren, I...
So today is Father’s Day. I don’t know how I’m feeling right now…it’s strange but I won’t lie I’m emotional about it but in a good way.
This is the first Father’s Day I have ever spent with my dad. And I’m 20. I never got to visit him except during Spring Break or just a week in May so this will be our first time spending the holiday together....
Oh Darren…I got called a bad mom today.
There have only been two occasions in which I have been called that; my own mother and your dad. And while I know it should not bother me, it does. The first time I was called a bad mother, it hurt me. Now? It just makes me mad.
For every night I sat up with you in one arm, a textbook in the other. Or those days I would forget to eat because I was...
May 2012
3 posts
What being a mom means to me...
It’s my second Mother’s Day but it is still weird to me; I don’t feel like someone’s mom. My son calls me mama sometimes but having other people say oh that’s Darren’s mom I’m like ahhh, I am really a mom. I feel old even though I am clearly not; I just have an old soul like some people have. I have always wanted to be a mom but I didn’t know how I...
I came to the realization that I’m angry…
I think about things too much and while I have every reason to be angry, it’s not something I want to hold onto or continue to let bother me. I thought if I got away and distanced myself that I would be better, but at night I can feel myself losing a battle with my thoughts. Its crazy. I feel like maybe now if I deal with it then I...
Darren you like it out here…I think being here is good for you. I can get a break and wean you just a tad. I know you aren’t used to being around too many people besides me but by the end of the summer, you’ll flourish and I can leave your sight without you freaking out. I’m determined to do that…it worries me how you react to people being around you sometimes and...
April 2012
76 posts
momosmoment:
From now on when ppl ask me “How did you get your hair to CURL like that?!” I’m gonna say “I stopped putting Relaxers in it” & keep on walking b/c each time I say “It’s NATURAL, all I put on it is water mixed with conditioner” They act like I’m lying & there is a magic product I’m hiding from them, smh~
Truth
Watchyumiyoko:
iminappropriate:
goodgirllexxaye:
dommiewho:
“I AIN’T THE ONE”
*slap*
sdkjfsdvf
this is so got damn real life…
omfg.
I can relate to this smfh
I feel like I’ve become the stereotypical black mom.
Darren refused to sit down and was throwing a DVD everywhere
After constantly repeating myself and being ignored, I yelled and said IF I MESS UP THIS NAIL POLISH I JUST PAINTED ON MY NAILS I’M BREAKING MY FOOT OFF UP IN YOUR BEHIND!
And he sat down.
The part of life where your parents said hush before I give you something to cry...
6 Types of Love
Eros a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs...
““So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what...”
Bragging Rights
Right now at 18 months you can:
Follow simple commands (sit down, put your toys up, flush the toilet)
Count to 5
Say half of your alphabet
Properly load and start a dishwasher
Tell me when you need to be changed
You are able to use please and thank you in the proper way (though you do associate sneezing with saying thank you, I’m not sure if you can say bless you lol)
You can feed...
“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better...”
– Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
(via musiclifetoni)
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In...”
– Rose Kennedy (via fleshscars)
Twisted Fictions & Sick Addictions: The Friends... →
zamnnnzan:
I see why people get to a point where they feel like they just hate everyone. People just be so damn annoying man. Like get your life. Straight up. If you ain’t making me no money then I don’t give a fuck about anything you have to say unless you just somebody that I fuck with.
I feel like i’m…
If this aint my life right now
Darren I’m so sorry you smell like Vicky Secrets, but you were so ashy.
God if you can hear me, give me a place to belong. That’s all I’m asking for.
If I never needed support before, I do now. Right now I don’t have faith in anything and very little faith left in the people still around me. I feel like my heart is breaking into a million pieces still and I don’t know how to fix it. I keep telling myself I’ll let things go and move on...
“I’m a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally, and there are some power-abusing corrupt...”
– Ted Nugent, justifying remarks which have earned him an investigation from the Secret Service.
Dear Ted Nugent:
Things you are not:
Black
A Jew
Things you could be:
At a Nazi rally
At a Klan rally
Things you don’t have:
The truth
Anything close to it
Things you do have:
Audacity
...
Acura commercial casting call requested 'friendly,... →
wtfwhiteprivilege:
Someone associated with casting the popular commercial told TMZ that one of the reasons they requested a “not too dark” African-American was because lighting and special effects would get tricky otherwise.
Ya know what might make it less “tricky?” Having more dark people of color in media so that lighting directors can get better at lighting them and the white actors...
One of the top articles on MSN right now is about a toddler who gets out of her ‘chores’ by saying it’s too heavy. Cute. But I see things like that all the time. As a mom of course you want to say your child is extra special and does unimaginable things no other kid does (even though they do). But why do only the white kids videos go viral for it?
