https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/The 35-year-old single mother of a 2-year-old little girl writes about her decision to keep the child, the pain of breaking up with the child's father and the joy of healing and moving on.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/572079She will be 3 years old on the 15th of this month. The time and the pain have passed well, if not quickly. I look back and can hardly believe how hurt and desperate I was to keep her father around. But he's around anyway, I just let it all be and he has stayed in her life. I have new romance in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/498591Two men looked out from behind prison bars; One saw mud, the other saw stars. I’m done with looking down at the mud of my life. The shame of my unplanned pregnancy. The pain of being rejected by the father of the baby. The emotional and financial tsunami in which I daily flounder, gasping for air....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/480861"...maturity is not only based on chronological age, but on the acceptance of responsibility, and an individual’s ability to show respect towards others." - Dan Williams, Psy.D., PA-C I feel proud of myself when I read the above quote. I feel like I have been mature because I took on the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/471411It was was great, kinda. (see my post How I Met The Guy I'm Dating) But now it's over. I believe in God (the one from the Bible) and I'm trying to follow my faith. He believes in a general, sorta universal god (not particularly the biblical one, all the gods of all the religions are the same to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/467034I changed apartments 3 times between April 2006 and May 2007. Each time, I hired this guy who owns a truck to move my stuff. On the third move, his truck got a flat and I let him use my car to go get the tire repaired. He came back with the repaired tire, put it back on his truck and drove...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/464570Now, this guy is special. Mind you, he's nothing special...but he's perfect for me...that's what makes him special.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/463395I am tired of my ex and I don't want him in our lives anymore. I am ready to even deny his visitation rights (he's been coming around once a month or so since the start of the year but skipped April). I just want him to stay away from me and my baby. I feel like we don't need him. I can't believe...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/463221my daughter can say about 20 words now, none of those words is 'daddy' and that's his fault.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/462924Marriage never looked great to me when I was growing up. It seemed like a pretty lousy deal for women. But when I got pregnant, I saw the benefit of having a supportive husband (but I didn't have a husband at the time, let alone a supportive one). Now that I'm a single mom and making it mostly on...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/KeptTheBaby/462780Eww, my new apartment is a mess already! I moved in more than a week ago and I'm still living out of the boxes and bags I moved with! I coulda cleaned up last weekend. But I lazed around with my baby girl on Saturday 'cause that's what I do on Saturdays. And I lazed around on Sunday, it was...