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Single working parents of small children, I salute you. I am only on my second work day of this stretch of single-parenting, and I already feel beaten. For the second day in a row, I went into work 40 minutes late, after being up until 1 in the morning trying to prepare for the day, hoping it would get off to a smooth start, which it didn’t.
I decided this morning that I just wasn’t going to get stressed out about being late. I’ll simply keep track of the time I owe my employer, and when Michael gets back, I’ll go in to work and make up the time on a Monday that I usually stay home. When I rush around, I tend to get into accidents, which slows me down, having to clean up the mess I wouldn’t have made if I’d just been slower in the first place.
The main problem these last two mornings is that Jade has been waking up in the night or early in the morning, and by the time she goes back to sleep, it’s the time we’re both supposed to be getting up, but I’m exhausted. Her routine has been off since our Christmas holidays started (so many parties!) but I was hoping it would be back to normal by now. She’s tending to sleep in and isn’t napping as well in the afternoons. If it weren’t for work and daycare, I’d be happy to sleep in and have shorter naps (or no nap) later in the day, especially with the short sunlight hours we have now. But the necessity of getting to work on time and of trying to maintain a routine similar to what they do at daycare makes this a non-option. (more…)
