Dear Mr. Elevator Man

Child Support has been a top subject on my social media page, as well as on black twitter. I get really upset when I see men say " show me what you spending the child support on 'cause I know it's not my baby " ... that BLOWS me!! So here I am to break it down ...... I'll be the baby mama - we will use where I live in GA as an example. I'll even know use someone I know personally child support amount at the end of the post. So before I got pregnant I lived in a one bed room for $550. Once I got pregnant - I moved into a two bed room apartment so that our child would be able to grow in it's own space. That apartment went from $550 to $700. Now since you are the father you would split the $150 with me with is $75 a piece.  My cable will be the same because the child watches channels within my network. Lights will go up as they get older - because we all know we never turned off a light in the house and now I am in a two bedroom instead of one. So my ...

First off let me say HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all the lovely mothers and single fathers out there. This is NOT for you"drop your kids off every weekend to go out" mothers. So yeah. this isn't for you. Moving right along ..... Just know I'm crying as I am writing this post today. I've had a weekend from hell.  When I was 13 years old, I lost my grandmother. It is always hard when you lose a grandmother, but like most southern kids, my granny was my 1st mama. Now some of you may be like what? Your mama, is your first mama. Well that's not how I saw it. My mama was always my mama, but I lived with my grandmother more than my mom. My mother was a single mom, who worked MANY late nights to provide for me. I understood that growing up. I knew that I lived with my grandmother to go to a school my mother wanted me to go to, I knew that my mom would come by every afternoon to see me, check my homework, and possibly take me home with her if she didn't fall asle...