Dating For Single Parents

Would it freak you out to find your child’s second grade teacher’s profile on an online dating site?

I’m a second grade teacher and really lonely. I have a hard time finding dates because I’m so shy, school keeps me busy and normally by the time evenings and weekends roll around I’m too tired to go out clubbing, dancing or to singles events. Mostly I just hang out with my girlfriends and family.

So I’ve been thinking about trying online dating the way some of my friends have done.

However, I started thinking, “What if some of my student’s parents see me on Match.com or Yahoo Personals? Can I get in trouble for that? Is it unprofessional? Will it freak them out?”

Just some FYI, my profile wouldn’t be all weird or sexually charged because all I’m looking for is a nice guy to go out with and become friends and possibly have a serious relationship. That’s all. I don’t want a one night stand, a kinky sex partner, a sugar daddy or anything like that.

I’m thinking of wearing a realistic looking wig that’s a different color than my own hair, stylish glasses (normally i wear contacts) and using an alias.

What do you guys think?

Originally posted 2009-11-28 19:56:49. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Tags: childs, Dating, Find, freak, grade, Online, profile, second, Site, teacher's, would

NUMEROLOGY: Your Life Path for the Second Half of 2009 — This is Your Year

“Imagine what it would be like to read the story of your life before it actually happened …

“You’d know how to make the most out of the opportunities life gives you … how to avoid negative influences that distract you from achieving your true life purpose … and which path to take in order to have the happiest, most fulfilling life that is available to you.” –Blair Gorman, author of the incredible MASTER NUMEROLOGY

Numerology is the study of numbers, and the occult manner in which they reflect certain aptitudes and character tendencies, as an integral part of the cosmic plan.

Each letter has a numeric value that provides a related cosmic vibration. The sum of the numbers in your birth date and the sum of value derived from the letters in the name provide an interrelation of vibrations. These numbers show a great deal about character, purpose in life, what motivates, and where talents may lie. Experts in numerology use the numbers to determine the best time for major moves and activities in life.

Numerology is used to decide when to invest, when to marry, when to travel, when to change jobs, or relocate…

 

Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician who live from 569-470 B.C., is said by many to be the originator of much of what we call numerology today…

The actual origins of numerology predate Pythagoras, the most popular being the very old Hebrew Kabbala. In the twentieth century, the old discipline seems to magically reappear in the form of a series of books published from 1911-1917 by L. Dow Balliett and it was helped along in the 30s by Florence Campbell, and within the next few decades a wealth of literature was available to the public. Indeed, if you look at the past 90 years, it would seem that the discipline has moved very rapidly. But perhaps all of this was known at a much earlier time, and it was just hiding from us for a while.

 

YOUR LIFE PATH NUMBER

The Life Path is the sum of the birth date. This number represents who you are at birth and the native traits that you will carry with you through life. The most important number that will be discussed here is your Life Path number. The Life Path describes the nature of this journey through life.

The Life Path number is established from the date of birth. First, add the Month, day, and year together to arrive at a total. Next, reduce this four digit number to a single digit.

Example: If a person was born on October 23, 1972 (10-23-1972), add the month 10 to the day 23 plus the the year 1972 arriving at a total of 2005. Then add the digits in 2005 arriving at the Life Path number 7.

 

LIFE PATH 1

The Life Path 1 suggests that you entered this plane with skills allowing you to become a leader type rather easily. Your nature is charged with individualistic desires, a demand for independence, and the need for personal attainment. Many of our military generals, corporate leaders, and political leaders are men and women having the Life Path 1. When you display positive 1 traits your mind is capable of significant creative inspiration, and it possesses the enthusiasm and drive to accomplish a great deal. You are very good at getting the ball rolling; initiating new projects is your forte.

You are at your best when confronted with obstacles and challenges, as you combat these with strength and daring. This is both the physical and inner varieties of strength. With this strength comes utter determination and the capability to lead. As a natural leader you have a flair for taking charge of any situation. You have a tendency to do this, even if, at times, it is not appropriate for you to do so.

 

LIFE PATH 2

The Life Path 2 suggests that you entered this plane with a spiritual quality in your makeup allowing you to be one of the peacemakers in society. Your strengths come from an ability to listen and absorb. You are a fixer, a mediator, and a very diplomatic type of person using persuasive skills rather than forcefulness to make your way in the world. When you embrace and exhibit the strenghth of your spiritual side, you are intuitive, avant-garde, idealistic, and visionary.

These extremes make you interesting with much to offer society. You have the potential to be a deep-thinker, and no doubt interested in understanding many of life’s mysteries and more intriguing facets.

 

LIFE PATH 3

The Life Path 3 indicates that you entered this plane with a strong sense of creativity and with wonderful communication skills. Achievement for you most likely comes through engaging your ingenious expression. A truly gifted 3 possesses the most exceptional innovative skills, normally in the verbal realm, writing, speaking, acting, or similar endeavors.

Here we are apt to find the entertainers of the world, bright, effervescent, sparkling people with very optimistic attitudes. The bright side of this path stresses harmony, beauty and pleasures; of sharing your inventive talents with the world.

Capturing your capability in creative self-expression is the highest level of attainment for this life path.

 

LIFE PATH 4

The Life Path 4 suggests that you entered this plane with a natural genius for planning, fixing, building, and somehow, with practical application and cerebral excellence, making things work. You are one of the most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals; the cornerstone members of society. Indeed, as a Life Path 4, you are a builder of society. The cream of the crop in this Life Path can be a master builder in society.

 If you are among these highly talented people, you have an idealistic nature which is grounded in practical terms, allowing you to conceive grandiose, far-reaching schemes and carry them through to the end. If you desire and are willing to work for it, you can achieve enormous success, prestige, and fame. Obviously, everyone with a 4 Life Path does not become famous.

 

LIFE PATH 5

The Life Path 5 suggests that you entered this plane with a highly progressive mindset, with the attitude and skills to make the world a better place. The key word for your Life Path is freedom. In the pursuit of freedom, you are naturally versatile, adventurous, and advanced in your thinking. You are one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses.

 The byword for the positive Life Path 5 is constant change and improvement. You want to be totally unrestrained, as this is the number most often associated with the productive use of freedom.

 

LIFE PATH 6

The Life Path 6 suggests that you entered this plane with tools to become the ultimate nurturer, and a beacon for truth, justice, righteousness, and domesticity. Your paternal, or maternal, as the case may be, instincts with a 6 Life Path exceed all others by a considerable margin. Whether in the home or in the work place, you are the predominant caretaker and family head.

While the 6 may assume significant responsibilities in the community, the life revolves around the immediate home and family, for this is the most domestic of numbers. Conservative principles and convictions are deeply ingrained and define your character.

 

LIFE PATH 7

The Life Path 7 suggests that you entered this plane with a gift for investigation, analysis, and keen observation. You are a thinker of the first order. You evaluate situations very quickly, and with amazing accuracy. As a result, you are thorough and complete in your work, the perfectionist who expects everyone else to meet a high standard of performance, too.

You rely heavily on your experiences and your intuition, rather than accepting advice from someone. Your hunches usually prove to be very accurate, and knowing this, you follow the directions they seem to guide.

 

LIFE PATH 8

The Life Path 8 suggests that you entered this plane armed to lead, direct, organize and govern. You are very ambitious and goal-oriented. You will want to use your ambitions, your organizational ability, and your efficient approach to carve a satisfying niche for yourself. If you are a positive 8 you are endowed with tremendous potential for conceiving far-reaching schemes and ideas, and also possessing the tenacity and independence to follow them through to completion. In short, you were born to be an executive.

You know how to manage yourself and your environment. Your ability to judge the character and potential of the people around you is an asset used to your advantage.

 

LIFE PATH 9

The Life Path 9 suggests that you entered this plane with an abundance of dramatic feelings coupled with a strong sense of compassion and generosity. The key to the nature of a Life Path number 9 person is found in their humanitarian attitude. Even the very average of those with life path 9 possess extremely compassionate tendencies.

Usually this number produces an individual that is very trustworthy and honorable, and one unlikely to harbor any sort of prejudice. Obviously, this is a rather tall order, but you are, in fact, a person that feels very deeply for individuals less fortunate than yourself, and if you are in a position to help, you certainly will. The 9, being the highest of the single digit numbers, holds an elevated position in terms of responsibilities to Humankind.

  

I’ve got to admit, now I go to Blair for a Life Path reading. Wouldn’t miss it.

If you’d like to know what your own Life Path is for 2009 in detail, you’ve got to check out Blair Gorman, MASTER NUMEROLOGIST at YOUR DREAM TEAM

A full numerology reading will give you all these things, and much more … Essentially, a recipe for a happier and more fulfilling life.

 

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Originally posted 2009-12-09 14:14:01. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Tags: 2009, Half, life, NUMEROLOGY, Path, second, This, Year

How One Couple Took a Second Chance on Love and Blended Five Kids, Four Cats, Three Dogs, Two Fish and a Bird

When I tell people that my husband and  have a blended family of five kids, two boys and three girls, I hear the obvious chuckle and the usual comment that our life is like TV show. They are, of course, referring to The Brady Bunch, an idyllic, fantasy-like sitcom of yesteryear where aside from Marsha getting hit in the nose with a football and Jan developing an allergy to flea powder, life was pretty much tame (and lame if you ask my kids). I do agree that my life is like a TV show, but more along the lines of a modern day reality program, like Survivor. When I see a group of adults bickering over coconut milk dressed in skimpy outfits in front of a roaring fire in the tropics all I can think is, “Big deal, where’s the challenge?” Try taking five cranky, bored, dirty, exhausted kids on a camping trip, in tight quarters, in the rain for five days. Survive that!  Better yet, see if you can pack five lunches every morning, cook dinner for seven every night, attend four different soccer games in one day, wash twenty loads of laundry a week and feign interest in your daughter’s story about the weird kid in her class who eats paper.

 My life is far from ideal. My dogs smell, my house is never clean all at once and I forget to water my plants  until they die and I have to throw them out. We manage. I have my priorities. At least I don’t forget to feed the kids. How could I? They’re always hanging over me begging for food.  Then of course there’s the constant juggling of schedules of five children alternating among three separate households. Who left green bunny at Dad’s or their math textbook at Mom’s? It seems like something is always forgotten somewhere. Remembering where five kids have to be all the time is challenge worthy of an NFL offense coordinator. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gritted my teeth at one of my children to “get your cleats on, get in the car, we’re going to be late for soccer!” only to discover I’ve driven to the wrong field and forgotten it was my turn to bring snack. Oh, how I wish my life were like Carol Brady’s. I’d have time to read, and sleep, and eat without interruption. I’D HAVE A MAID.  My husband and I would never fight and I could go the bathroom alone. I try to take comfort in the thought that at least I have better hair and I’m not walking around in double knit plaid pantsuits.

Truthfully, I love my life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. When my first marriage ended in divorce and I reentered the single scene at age 40 I truly thought my days of coupledom were over. With two kids under the age of 9, and struggling to support myself as a single mom, not only did I not have the time for dating, I didn’t have the confidence either. I worried that my children would not accept a new man in my life or worse, that a new man wouldn’t accept them either. Childless men I dated were impatient with or lacked the understanding of the demands and challenges of having children. On the other hand, men with families were in the same predicament I was–no time and no energy. Even though I considered my kids my greatest asset, I was soon confronted with the harsh reality that not all of my dating prospects thought so. Refusing to believe that my children were a liability, or “baggage” as one man put it, I gave up on dating, retreated into myself and worried that I would spend the rest of my life alone. Then I met and fell in love with Paul, a loving father of three and we decided to marry and blend our family of five kids, four cats, three dogs, two fish and a bird.    As a newly remarried mother of two and stepmother of three, I’ve decided to start this blog because I feel I have a message of hope and guidance to share with parents and children who are already in or who are thinking  about entering into blended families.

When word spread that my husband and I were engaged, people I barely knew, mostly acquaintances from my kids’ schools, would approach me at soccer games or in the grocery store and flood me with questions. “How did you meet him? Does he have kids? How do they all get along? What are the custody arrangements?” The more I answered their questions, the more specific they became. “How do you get them all to school on time? How  do you split the holidays? Do you really cook  dinner for seven people every night and pack five lunches every morning?”  (Yes, I do. Every other week. See my RECIPES FOR FAMILY DINNERS page to learn tips and menu ideas.)

I quickly came to realize that not only did they want advice, they wanted inspiration and assurance that it was possible for them to remarry and blend their families too. One dear friend of mine, once a single mom and recently remarried into a blended family told me, “You are my beacon of hope.” If that is the case, then I will try to shine as bright as I can, and most importantly, tell is like it is. The same friend also told me she admired my honestly. I try to keep it real. I’m ecstatically happy now, but when life stinks, and often times it can, I’ll make sure to let you know. We all have challenges and no one’s life is a bed of roses.  Please read and write comments so we can laugh and cry together, gnash our teeth, wring our hands, share our joys and triumphs, and most importantly learn from each other.

We are the Shwanda’s , which is not our real name. It is a combination of our two last names that our kids came up with one day when they were playing a computer game called Sims. The object of the game is to design and build a house and create a family to live happily in it, which is exactly what we did. This is our story.

Note: I know many people who read this blog already know me. With regard to the general public, in the interest of protecting my family’s privacy, I have changed their names.  I will refer to my husband as Paul, his oldest son, 17 as Sam, the younger boy, 15 as Mark, and his daughter, 11 as Cheryl. My oldest daughter, 15 will be called, Sophia and my youngest daughter, 12 as Eva. As for me, just call me Carol. This should be very interesting since I can’t remember their names now.

To read my blog go to: www.shwanda.com

Originally posted 2009-12-15 10:20:47. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Tags: Bird, Blended, Cats, Chance, couple, Dogs, Fish, Five, Four, Kids, Love, second, Three, Took

Dating and Giving Yourself a Second Chance

There is something in dating that signifies new and rejuvenated life. In essence, dating is all about finding new love, or reawakening a love that has been dead for some time now. Love is all about giving and it will be unfair if we said that it’s all about receiving. Just like in everything else, it requires a clear knowledge of your own situation and why you need to be back in the love and dating realm. The fact is that you cannot stay away from the world of love and the faster you return the better. It’s such a fulfilling place that nourishes the soul of man and the fact is that you cannot delve in the world without some amount of love.

The reasons as to why you might return or you need to find love and begin the dating game are as immense as they come. It is something that you cannot ignore. Dating is about going back to the sea of love and trying out your best to come back with something. Once you have got something you will be the happiest of all men as you make your heart sing and grace itself with gladness.

You might be going back to the world of dating to find love after undergoing a rigorous divorce, which had tentatively made you to somehow forget how it all tasted and whether there is anything for you on the other side of love. The divorce might have left you scathed in terms of love and because the human heart is a delicate entity, you find that you are evading any chance that reminds you of intimacy. However, you must realize that you cannot stay away from the game of love, more so if you had already tasted love, and you only need to reawaken the feeling. At one time you will not be able to live without it and the sooner you return to the world of dating the better. You must begin to meet other singles who share your sentiments, people who share the same mind and are requiring some rejuvenation.

For a single parent, meeting other single parents is the best way of finding true and fast love, where the dating will undoubtedly be successful considering that you both are in many ways requirement the same thing. Single men and women who are also after love and rejuvenated dating must go through the same process that anybody after starting relationship does go through.

Many singles consider online dating and speed dating as one of the faster ways of starting the dating process. These are places where there are people who are inclined at finding love and are after meeting other singles just like themselves. On the other hand, anybody after finding intimacy and enjoying romance must know that they are meeting other human beings who have feelings like themselves and must be treated with respect and careful tenderness, otherwise, failing in the dating process is guaranteed.

Originally posted 2009-12-06 03:45:11. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Tags: Chance, Dating, Giving, second, yourself