Where has my sweet little boy gone?
I am feeling like Bear hit two and a switch flipped or something.
I hate using the term "terrible twos"..but he turned two and has been a holy terror ever since. No...that is unfair. But he is suddenly suuuuper whiny, throws tantrums and won't do one goddamned thing I ask him too! Yeah,okay, he's a kid thats what they do...hell, I still do that sometimes..but it started almost literally the DAY he turned two.
He is really a pretty sweet boy...friendly, loves to read and play, go outside..but sometimes it is OVERWHELMING when he starts acting up.

Bed time now, unless he falls asleep nursing (which is rare these days) consists of this routine:

He

alright.
I have to be comepltely honest with mysself here.
I need a job.
I don't want to work. I was so hellbent on being home with the boy..but I have no skills people would pay money for(at least not enough to live)so working from home doesn't feel like an option.

I don't live in the city I am trying to get a job in, and i don't drive. I am going insane having to rely on my parents for everything again. Including transportation. Ugh. I am having a really hard time finding anyone willing to rent out an apartment to someone who doesn't have a job yet. But how am I supposed to get to work? I don't really want to just start a job here then quit a few weeks later once I find us a home.

I need resume help.
I can't find my old one ANYWHERE! and with it has gone all the dates where I worked places and all the info of those places. So I need to start from scratch completely.

I am 22. I have no "career path" and no post-secondary education yet. Hell, i still haven't decided what I want to go to school for yet. I have hopped around from retail job to retail job since I started working as a teenager, with a few brief stints at halfdecent offices.

I would really like to work only part time..I doubt thats a possibility though, as I don't really have the experience to get into a higher paying place that would give me enough money to pay rent and provide for my son and I while only working part time.

BD doesn't help at all with child support, so thats not even a little bit of help...
and I also haven't worked for the last two years while I've been home with my little one...although for some reason, being a mother is not qualifcation enough to do Daycare work.

I am so frustrated. Can anyone give me any advice at all? I don't even know where to start!

I have been seeing a guy over the last little while that I really quite like. However, I am starting to notice something. While in the past I used to be capable of being into one person at a time...I'm not anymore. Actually...I mett a super sweet guy on the bus home from the city this weekend(post 24 hours of MAMA TIME!) and we're going out this weekend.

I don't know why my libido is on overdrive like this. I am wondering what you Mamas think about this. I think if everyone is open an honest, maybe having a few lovers might not necessarily be a terrible thing. I know some friends of mine run this way and all seem to be quite happy.

Discuss

So...
I have a new partner these days, and have been wondering to myself which avenue for birth control to take. I (ashamedly) will admit that I am always so effing terrible with condoms. I don't really know why. I have a tendency to get lost in the heat of the moment, I guess. Irresponsible, yes...but honest.

I have a Mirena IUD up in my drawer that I had gotten not long after Bear was born and still never had it put it. I have an appointment tomorrow to go have it inserted, since it will be day two of my period...but I'm TERRIFIED. I have read a lot of horror stories about them...and I really don't want to have huge cramps from insertion and a lot of bleeding this weekend because I am going out (one of the rare Mama nights *grin*). I am also a little wierded out by the hormone idea.

Pre-Bear I had used a pill, which I forgot to take half of the time, anyways(ohhh, those old stoner days..)...but they sent me for a real loop. I was grouchy ALL the time and had no sex drive whatsoever. At all. NONE. And I am a sex lover. So I'm counting pills out.

What have you ladies tried?? What would you recommend or not recommend??

Alright Mamas...I need some of those super powered vibes of yours!

I am very tired of being a tropical animal living in a temperate climate. I neeeeeed to get mine and Bearmans hiney's to Brasil...for the sake of my sanity! Howvever, there is the small pebble in my shoe that is his father.

Hello Mamas!
Jeepers! it has been so long since I've been here! Crazy summer, crazy fall...I hope all is well here in Mamaland, I'll get to reading everything soon! I'm hoping to get back on here, I miss my mama support village!

Where to start? the

Well...
I can';t even lie and say I've been lurking!
Although HM is still my homepage, I haven't looked here in so long! I've missed you! MotorMouth, you're PREGGO, you fantastic woman! I am thrilled!
There are so many new babies in and out bellies here that I feel like I've missed so much!

So much has gone on with us, as well! Bear is WALKING! All on his own! He can walk across an entire room now!And he just learned to drink from a straw! My Baby! He's getting so big! He keeps taking up more and more and more of our bed!

Speaking of bed...
coff coff..
I've even got a man these days Its fresh and new..it feels G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S!!!
the scoop:
We've bee

I just wanted to share this with you. It's free (unless you want the extra stuff). An online "conference" of natural parenting.

http://www.rawmomsummit.com/

You don't have to be raw, just interested in making the world a better place
Check out the site and sign up if you like.

One year has already flown by!
Bear has gone from this wee boy:

To this BIGGER wee boy:

Cak

Fiiiiirst of all...the site looks fabulous Way to go, techies!

I've been guilty of lurking lately (again). Reading, but not saying anything. Partially because I have nothing to say, and partially because Mash got me started on the Twilight series and I became so addicted that doing anything else besides reading once Bear was in bed seemed like a complete waste of time. Talk about escapism... Great books though!