Once upon a time, I met a boy

When I first created this blog, I was single, but living with my ex (my daughter's father). Crazy, I know.

Then I moved out on my own with my daughter. This blog was going to be 'single mom diaries' style. Boyfriend is kind of getting in the way of that.

I was single and living on my own for a little over a month when I got a message on an online dating website. By that point, I was mostly fed up with online dating, so I didn't pay much attention to the message, plus I was away visiting friends for the week. I was pretty indifferent about the message, and the guy, but I responded. It was probably a pretty lame response, maybe even showing my disinterest, but whatever the case, we both had daughters and easily fell into a conversation about babies and such.

For the first time in awhile, I was having an easy back and forth of messages with a guy I met online. Soon, I was checking my messages on my phone when I got up in the middle of the night with my daughter. Not long after that, we exchanged phone numbers and became Facebook friends.

Finally, we made tentative plans to meet, on a night that he had his daughter. The plans got a little messy when my ex cancelled his plans to take the baby at the last minute.

But we did eventually end up meeting and I went on a first date with a guy I had never met before, and his daughter. Hopefully that will stay as the strangest first date I've ever had.

For some reason, I wasn't too nervous about meeting him. Maybe it was the baby ice breaker. I didn't feel sparks fly or any kind of 'love at first sight' crap, but I don't believe in that anyway. But we clicked a little. Conversation was easy, and we stayed at the fast food restaurant long after we finished eating.

Our first date didn't end with a first kiss. 

When he mentioned getting together a second time, I mentioned looking for a babysitter and he said we could just watch a movie at my place. I soon realized that he was truly okay with the fact that I had a baby and she would always be around. 

Our second date was just a movie at my place, a bag of chips between us for at least the first hour before it was moved and he pulled me a little closer to cuddle. It was late by the time we thought he should leave, so I decided to wake up the baby for her middle of the night feeding in hopes that she'd sleep again until morning and give me some uninterrupted sleep time. To my surprise, he stayed for the whole feeding, even though it took forever because she was distracted by him. I finally got her back to bed and he left, sometime close to 3am. This time he kissed me before he left. 

And I was really starting to like this sweet boy. 

So I apologize that this blog might not really live up to its name. 

What I'm Loving...

I've been in such a good mood lately, and it's starting to wear off. I'm getting a little restless from too much time with just baby girl. After awhile I start to miss interacting with people who can say more than 'mama' and 'baba'. But at least she's adorable. 

So I'm going to list a few things I've been loving lately, in an attempt to bring back that good mood. 

I Love....

My morning coffee. Even more so, iced coffee season! 

This gorgeous dress I saw on Julie Ann Art. From the website photo, I never would've taken a second look at the dress, but seeing it worn made me fall in love.

These two marriage proposal videos I saw on Pillow Thought. They really made me smile. 

Finding and watching old episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway? I've missed this show too much. 

Thess photos that I got of baby girl when I did her 8 month photo shoot almost 3 weeks late :p

That it's payday.

Working one day a week to make a little extra moolah and get a little bit of  'me' time.

Being able to get to sleep before 11pm a few nights a week.

Going on walks with my little miss. (What I don't love? Her need to always pull her hat off.)


What are you loving lately?

A 75th Birthday Party

On Thursday my grandfather turned 75 years old. He's getting a little.. old.

We brought him to my mom's for a few nights (me and baby stayed too!) and celebrated his birthday and Father's Day both on Saturday. 

Getting to spend so much time with him, go on walks with him and take him shopping was all really nice. 

He had a stroke in November 2010, which left him fine physically, but mentally he can't really speak much and it's hard to get him to understand things we say. 

But it was fun to have an uncle and a few cousins join us, as well as my brother and his girlfriend. It's rare that the family really gets together. 

My uncle and my  babygirl, making a not-so-happy face

Grandfather and uncle

Brother with Charlie, the cat we love to hate

It was so nice to get back home and sleep in my own bed, but since Chloe had a crying fit from 10-11, and boyfriend came over, I got to sleep way too late and was still exhausted come Sunday.

So worth it to get to spend that little bit of time with boyfriend though. He told me he missed me, and I got to fall asleep in his arms which only happens when we're both super tired. When Chloe woke up around 3am, neither of us had moved. We lazed around a bit in the morning while the baby napped. He tried to tickle me. By the time he left, I was missing him already and he left me in a good mood for most of the day. 

Silent Sunday: Family Time

We've been visiting some family these past few days. These are a couple of photos from a quick trip to the park Wednesday evening. More exciting details to come, when I'm trying to be less silent. 

Last Silent Sunday: Rearranging furniture.

What the baby's been up to.

I had no intentions of this becoming a boyfriend-filled blog, but I guess that comes with not being able to write about him at all before. Either way, that's not all I'm about.

Oh that girl of mine. I have a crawler on my hands. It's pretty much the cutest, but most annoying thing in the world.

I was reveling in the ability to sit her on the floor with her toys while I tidied up or.. did anything really. Now she's on the run. Kind of.

She pulls the dvds off the shelf, she plays with anything that isn't her toys. She loves trying to pull herself up on the coffee table, which is only going to end in tears sometime soon. She doesn't leave the room or go anywhere yet, she just touched whatever she sees in the room we're in.

I have a major love/hate relationship with this crawling stage.

Still, she's just too darn cute.

Also, she's been driving me absolutely crazy lately when it comes to meal times. She usually eats breakfast like a champ, except for the one day we had to be up and out early to get her to the babysitter's house. Lunch and dinner though? Forget about it. Veggies are either completely boring or disgusting. Even things like sweet potatoes don't do it for her. Since she won't eat her veggies, she hasn't had too much fruit lately, but when she does she eats that okay. Girlfriend loves banana mango baby food. But mostly... she's just a pain to feed. She doesn't open the mouth, she spits stuff out, she looks away, she hits the spoon.

She was like this with her bottle for a long time - always pushing it away. She's never been an easy-to-feed baby. Which is unfortunately because she's such a little baby that the health department always wants to keep an eye on her weight.

Hopefully she soon opens up to veggies a little bit more. She can't stay on formula forever. Stuff's expensive.