Tag: single mom life

• When Life Crashes, Bake Bread.

  Life crashed, my therapist told me to find a hobby, and now I’m over here feeding a sourdough starter named Fernandough. I’m not good at it—but maybe that’s the point. Sourdough has become my messy little metaphor for life: slow, imperfect, but still rising.

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• Podcasts That Feel Like Therapy for Burnt-Out Moms

  Burnout isn’t just about being tired — it’s about carrying too much, for too long, with no finish line in sight. For single moms, it’s working a full-time job and then clocking into the second shift at home without ever getting to clock out. It’s survival mode stacked on survival mode. That’s why I put…

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• Financial Friday:

  Ballin’ (Slightly) Bigger — A Toddler-Approved Weekend in Portland Under $75 I have been obsessed with making these little weekend plans for my son and I since I moved here from New Orleans, being able to be outside for the majority of the year is SUCH a game changer. So for this financial friday, because…

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