How You Do It? I’ll Never Know… But You Must Be Awesome
January 27, 2009
I spent today at home with my darling daughter – just us girls.
GeekDaddy left sometime around 0-dark-thirty for a business trip to Philadelphia, so today was just me, Buttercup, and the cat & dog. Plus freezing temperatures and horridly grey weather colored with a bit of snow for variety.
Tonight found me trying to put her to bed alone and now that she’s 6, realizing that it’s actually much harder than it was when she was younger. When it was just us and she was younger, bedtime w/o Daddy just meant the same usual struggle as every night. Now she’s more aware of it when one of us is out of town. Makes for several more ‘I couldn’t sleep because…’ trips.
I have to say that while I love my daughter with every ounce of my being, it’s weeks like this that I wonder how single parents make it without totally losing their sanity. Especially those that work and are pretty much without any nearby family to support them. I think they are made of sterner – or perhaps less selfish – stuff than I.
I do suspect that far too many of them sacrifice sleep in favor of “just a little me time” at night after the child(ren) are asleep. It would certainly explain that glazed look so many single-parent friends of mine seem to have even after their past the early years of infant-originated sleep deprivation.
I just thought I’d take a second to recognize how amazing you single-parents are… because it’s nights like this one that make me think how awesome anyone is that can do this as such and somehow manage to raise happy, healthy children.
Meanwhile, I’m going to bed – I somehow have to be up at 5:30a tomorrow to get my daughter to school on time. It’s a good thing GeekDaddy comes home in a couple of days or I’d so be considering home schooling just so I wouldn’t have to drive before 9 a.m. on a regular basis!
Why don’t they have night school for kindergartners?
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