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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Holy crap…it’s sucks sometimes, huh…and I have family and supportive friends! Those constant “glasses of water” get so tiresome…
I have to say, my mom was a single working parent doing it on her own with two kids and she is my super hero for it!
Truth be tell it! Why don’t they have a night school for kindergartners. I am a single mom. When I was working, I don’t know how I did it. I think most times I didn’t. The baby sitters did. That means my mom and dad. Now, I am a full time mom and still have that help. We have a blast! Even on the not so blasty nights. I don’t work away from home so, I consider it much better.
Thanks for using my photo and letting me know.
Much appreciated.
I was married to a man in the Navy and would live miles away from anyone I knew. They would send him out to sea and there I was slung into being a single mom. I really feel for all the military personal’s husband or wives that are going though this also. Later I chose to be a single mom, at least I knew what I was in for.
Kids know when they have an opening at only 1 parent being home. LOL!
Yes, that ‘Glazed Over’ look comes from kids
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And, as far as Kindergarten at night, I think that would be a great idea, I liked it a lot.