Its taken me all day to recover from the awesome launch party!

Here are the three winners of the 3 Successful Single Mom Success Packages.

Carolyn
Debbie Mortenson
Nadia Noman

Ladies, I need your email address, mailing address and phone number. You'll be receiving your goodies soon! Email me: Honoree {at} Corpron {dot} com.

Everyone, thank you for taking the time to enter. I’ll be doing a Giveaway about once a month, so check back often!

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I try to include my daughter, Lexi, in things I do for "work" that occur outside of work hours. She's so excited about the book and the party next Friday, the 30th. She wants to work the book table and she's even calculated the price of the book including tax. So cute!

In honor of the book launch party, I'm giving away 3 Successful Single Mom Success Packages. Each package includes a copy of the book, a 1-on-1 Coaching Session with me and an extra special surprise.

To enter, leave your name, one thing you do to make your child(ren) feel special, and how you found The Successful Single Mom book site. Be sure to enter before 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, the 30th. (If you put a "shout out" on your blog about the contest, and come back and let me know through another comment, your name will be entered again.)

The winners will be chosen at random on Friday after the party by me and single moms featured in the book, and will be notified on Saturday the 31st.

Good luck!

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I became a single mom when my daughter was just a smidge over 3 years old. For the longest time, I was the only single mom of all the moms at her school, swim class, karate class, and dance class. I was the only single mom at my Rotary Club, at Galas, parties and even the kid's section at Borders. ["What does your husband do?" "Actually, I'm no longer married." "Oh."]

Recently I had a conversation with my Hair Guy. He said, "I bet its nice to be married. Now all those women can relax!" I asked what he meant ... he said, "Well, I know for a fact many a woman thought you (and other single moms) just wanted to land another man, their man."

Mental picture for you: steam coming out of my ears! My thought: ummmm, nooooooooo. Not even close.

To all the married moms out there, us single mamas don't want your husband! Here's why: we've had a man, so we know he's like (not implying he's all bad, but nobody's perfect!), he has children (children = laundry, attention, work), and you'd be his ex and we don't need more stress. I could just not picture my new man's ex being a parent in my kid's classroom. Oy!

Truth is, we're just gettin' through the day. Most of us are not having sex, dating or thinking of dating because we don't even have the time to pee (and if we do, there's generally company). We want an extra hour of sleep, a homecooked meal not cooked by us, for our kids to play together at your house so we can (a) work, (b) sleep, (c) catch up on our errands and to do list or (d) flee the country, and a great girlfriend who will listen to us celebrate, complain and process. We look at you and hope you don't become one of us because its hard to be a single mom! (Note: if your husband works/travels a lot, you are not "like" a single mom. You're just not.)

To all you married dads, nothing is sexier than a man who loves his wife and talks about how great she is and how much he loves her. If you are married, don't hit on us. We don't like it.

If you happen to know a really fabulous single guy who's not married (and meets the rest of our criteria for a mate), harass us until we go out with them (hint: that's how I met my new husband). We'll appreciate it for life!

Relax, we're super cool chicks who just happen to be single moms. We're really efficient, willing to help and ready for fun (when there's childcare). We might just be your next BFF.

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I've been reading through the entries of the contest and seeing so many wonderful ways that us single moms make sure our children feel special, that it warmed my heart.  Thank you ladies for sharing these wonderful little moments with all of us.

My two sons are homeschooled, so their schedule isn't rigid, but I try to get their day started by 7:30.  Jack is a very concientious boy, who is very much like me in that he worries way more than he should and feels responsible and guilty about everything.  We've been working on this issue together.

Just now, Jack came in, a little late to get up, and appologized for not getting up at 7:30 (it was 7:45).  I hugged him and said, "Good morning, I love you.  You don't need to appologize, because if it was really important for you to get up at 7:30 I would have come in to wake you up."  

Then I asked "Do you need to feel guilty about it?"

He answered "No".

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because, I don't" Jack answered.

"Because no one is mad at you, your not in trouble, your not late for anything, and it's perfectly ok that you didn't wake up with the alarm."  I told him.  Then I added, "And today is going to be a wonderful, easy, guilt free day!" 

Jack agreed, then asked if he could have a few more minutes in bed, which I agreed to.

Jack is a perfect example of the Law of Attraction and what I've learned through the 100 day program and from Honoree.  We get what we focus on!  When Jack wakes up, I give him hugs and kisses, and tell him that today is going to be a wonderful day.  Depending on the previous day, sometimes I'll add extra specific affirmations like "it's going to be a guilt free day" or "all your schoolwork will come easily to you".    When I do this he always has a wonderful day and the affirmations work for him.  If we don't do this, then his day is usually worse than the previous one, because it's the bad things from the day before that he focuses on, instead of good things.

This is the same for me as well.  Yesterday I had one of those horrible days where everything seems to be going wrong.  I woke up with a horrible headache that wouldn't go away.  Our phone was shut off and we didn't know it, and we ended up having to pay more than 2 times the bill because we had to pay a "restore" fee and a wire fee to get the payment accepted immediately so that it wouldn't affect our business.  Everything that could go wrong did.  Why?  Because I was focuses on some negatives from the previous day.

The day before I wrote on a personal blog about some family issues that have been going on for a decade.  I thought that I would get it all out and then move on.  Well, I got it all out, but forgot to move on.  I forgot to say affirmations in the morning, I forgot to think about the good things in my life.  I was too focused on the bad things, so yesterday was a very bad day.  

Today, however, I woke up thinking today was going to be a wonderful day, mostly thanks to Honoree sending me a text message last night saying "Tomorrow will be awesome! (Got a note from the Universe.)"  That was what I went to bed thinking, that is what I woke up thinking.  So I know that today will be awesome!

What thoughts are you focused on today?  Are you going over the incidents that happened yesterday or a decade ago?  Are you worried about what's going wrong today or tomorrow?  

Stop!  Think about the one thing in your life that you can always count on to make you smile, your children.  Take that warmth, their smiles, their hugs, and all the wonderful feelings that they inspire in you and focus on that.  Then go from there with one more special thing that makes you smile!  Keep thinking of those things.  You can't have two conflicting thoughts in your head at the same time, and the good can be so much more powerful than the bad.  

At first the good things may seem small and few, especially if you're not used to focusing on them.  But after a little while, you'll notice more and more things that will bring a smile to your face.  You'll start gathering up those wonderful happy thoughts and pretty soon they'll fill your day.  Keep focusing on those things, and your days will soon be the best days of your life!

What are your happy thoughts?  What are your wins for today?

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So yesterday I called my girlfriend to check in with her and found that she was in a state of "freak out".  She's a single mom too...so I completely understood where she was at.  Her kid was sick, her house was a wreck, and every where she turned someone wanted something from her.  Yeah...sucky place to be.

Her daughter seemed to be feeling better, so we took all the kids out for Thai food and "chill" time.  Then we regrouped at her place and just hang out.  After I left, she called to say her kiddo had thrown up again...so today I'm watching her kiddo & working at her place while she went to work. 

She thanked me profusely for rescuing her out of her "funk" and for helping her with her kids.  But come on...what else would we do for each other, right?! 

It's one of those reminders that asking for help is something that doesn't need to be scary.  I really wanted to help my friend.  So note to self...next time I need help, I probably have at least one friend out there that wants to help me.  Right?!    It's good to support and to be supported. 

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