Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World - Pasta blanda

When she hit thirty, single mom and relationship columnist Rachel Sarah realized that she had been in domestic overdrive too long. Years of dishing up macaroni and cheese, picking up Barbie accessories off the rug, playing peek-a-boo, mopping the kitchen floor, and trying to get over her ex had all shut out the possibility of dating and having hot sex again. But when her daughter turned two and stopped nursing, a switch was flipped--her libido was back. And so was her need to find a man. But motherhood had changed her. Where once she had been a free-spirited adventures, now she was first and foremost a mom, dedicated completely to her daughter's well-being. In this touching, sexy, and laugh-out-loud memoir, Sarah chronicles her ongoing search for The One as she remains a dedicated and involved mom. It's not easy crossing over from the land of Barbies, playdates, dress-up, and raising her daughter on her own to the new frontier of match.com, blind dates, singles groups, jdate.com, and hooking up with men she meets through friends, at the grocery store, or at the playground with her daughter. Because whenever she thinks about finding him, she realizes it's not just about her anymore. Single Mom Seeking is not a how-to-set of instructions to find Mr. Right. Instead, it's a spunky, sexy, and moving chronicle of the humor, pitfalls, and rewards of balancing the complexities of parenting and dating--single-mom style.