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Make Like Fergie and Get Back Your MILF Money 🍼💸
My current look is something like the "after" picture in a Don't do Meth campaign. I look like I literally reside in a dustbin. It wasn't always this way, in fact I used to have a shelf full of high end make-up and never left the house without GHDing the shit out of my hair. Now it's a quick spray of dry shampoo and I'm good to go. I've perfected the art of showering in a nanosecond, and I've learned how to make baggy jumpers work for me. I have moments of inspiration where I resolve to put a full face of makeup on every day and stick to a skincare routine for more than a week, but I always relapse. I need beauty rehab if there's such a thing.
By Eve Tawfick8 years ago in Families
How We Survived
You were supposed to be my forever. We weren't supposed to split up. We had the perfect family from the outside looking in. Yes we had our ups and downs just like any relationship, but we took a vow to be there for each other and stay with each other no matter what.
By Kristen Gonzales8 years ago in Families
My Life as a Mom
Life as a mom is very wonderful and hard at the same time. It's hard being a mom, because now you have to take care of yourself and the little ones. I never thought I would be a 24-year-old married mom of two little ones. I wasn't even supposed to have kids. My doctor told me that I couldn't have children. I was very upset and depressed. So I told my husband before we got married that I wasn't going to be able to give him children. Fast forward two weeks after our honeymoon, I was at work checking out a customer, and next thing I knew I blacked out. When I woke up, I was hooked up to an IV and my husband was sitting next to me.
By Shante Hernandez8 years ago in Families
How It Feels as a Daughter to Have a Toxic Mother
My mother has never ever physically harmed me in any way. But whenever I think of the treatment I've had from my mother, emotionally, the movie Mother Dearest pops into my head. Starting from when I was around 8 or 9 then gradually getting more horrible as time went by, my mother not only said things and did things that were inappropriate to me but also my 3 other sisters growing up. The most heartbreaking thing about it is, half the time there are genuine mother love moments I've received loving advice and concern; the other half has been nothing but damaging comments and selfish behavior.
By Juliet Samuels8 years ago in Families
Life as the Oldest Sibling
As I stated in “Lessons from my Internet Friend,” I am the oldest of two siblings. I have one sibling, a younger brother named Phillip. I would hope that my parents would’ve loved us equally throughout our lives, but as I have experienced, I really don’t think that this is the case.
By A. Alexis Kreiser8 years ago in Families
Single Mum Survival at Christmas
As the Christmas season is upon us we find that it is required to go to the shops and buy other people gifts and suchlike. It is required that we attend social events and smile nicely. It is required we do all manner of things to make Christmas go smoothly. Here's a list of Do's and Don'ts for Yuletide cheer. 🎅🏻🎄
By Eve Tawfick8 years ago in Families
When Mom Leaves
Okay, before we dive into abandonment, I would like to share a tidbit from my life. My parents were married when I was only two months old but divorced shortly after. My mother was abusive as well as a cheater so my father took me and left her. The court obviously awarded custody to my father. And my mother decided that she did not want her parental rights nor did she want her visitations. In fact, she eventually signed away her parental rights. However, my mother kept visitations with her firstborn who is my older half-brother.
By Alyssa Horn8 years ago in Families
Being a Mom at 35
Yay! Congratulations on being either a first time mom or having another son/daughter. After the long nine months of carrying your little one around, this will get better. Right? It all depends on Mommy of course. As you may have heard, each pregnancy is different, which is true. With my first child, she was full termed and I experience no health issues whatsoever. This is when I was 30. But come to my surprise, this past spring, I was once again pregnant. I did break down in tears. Not for happiness, but for shock and disbelief. How could this happen? Well, of course I knew how it happened. But the timing was horrible. I was doing well at my job and was about to head back to school to finish up my pre reqs for pharmacy school. After everything was said and done, then it was time to make another sacrifice once again. Since I was hovering around being 35, there are more risks with this pregnancy than with the previous one. I thought it was bull, but it wasn’t. Thankfully I didn’t have morning sickness like others can have during pregnancy, instead the sense of taste was off. The foods I had enjoyed was no longer there. I had already swelling and shortness of breath (SOB). This continued through the pregnancy along with palpations, pelvic pain, and right towards the end, gestational diabetes.
By Elsie McMullin8 years ago in Families
