My Single Mom Survival Kit

In lieu of a robust social safety net, can we offer you this cute coffee maker?

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First, a quick thank you for all the lovely responses to Friday’s essay on one year of divorce. As I promised when I first shared this news, Burnt Toast is not becoming a divorce newsletter. But it’s clear that this is a conversation that resonates with a lot of you, and so I love that this can be a place where we can get into it! Don’t worry, Friday’s essay is classic “let’s explode some beauty standards!” Burnt Toast stuff. But for your Tuesday link roundup, I decided to talk about the stuff that I’ve found most helpful in my first year of being the only adult in my house.

No, none of this is necessary to single motherhood. Yes almost all of it involves shopping and that’s problematic. What all parents (but especially single moms) actually need is stuff like paid family leave, affordable childcare, and reproductive rights but while we’re working on all of that… maybe also a little treat?

Pretty new rings

I’m not a big jewelry person (I think my pierced ears have closed back up again!) but I took my wedding ring off a month or two after we separated, and after a little while, I found that I did miss wearing meaningful jewelry.