Last week there was a little birthday going on. There wasn’t any huge parties, balloons or party bags. No streamers or party poppers to be cleaned up. Just nothing really. Confessions of a Single Mum little old blog turned a grand age of 8 years old.
8 Years I have been plodding away spouting my thoughts on life as a single penniless struggling parent.
What, if anything, has changed in those 8 years?
Well, the children have done that growing thing despite my awful cooking. My eldest will be 20 ( hang on just need to do the ‘my gosh I do feel old now’ thing ) this month and my youngest is 17. This means I have long waved goodbye to school runs or anything that concerns runs of any sort really. BIG TIP – don’t stress about your cooking they still seem to grow long gangly legs.
I’ve gone from full-time in an office to full-time self-employed. Then in desperate need of adult conversation, I returned to part-time to retail in a corner shop and still work self-employed. Still not entirely sure what I want to do when I grow up.
The opinions, in a broad general sweep of the world, towards single parents hasn’t improved. I and all single parents are still thought of as a money scroungers who gets everything paid for through benefits. That I don’t work a proper job or have one that really counts. And that I need to go out and get a full-time job to be worthy of anything.
I am still knackered to beyond tiredness 24/7. Penniless the majority of the time ( the rich because you’re on benefits thing never reached me ) and still desperately trying to make a difference.
But with all that, I ( and their Dad ) have managed to raise 2 children that are unique. They are caring, considerate and a joy to behold…….hang on who am I kidding. They are those things but also so annoying at times. They either never stop talking or go on talking strike for days on end. Have amazingly long skinny legs that dangle all over the sofa. They have discovered their own drives and passions in subjects I never thought they would be interested in.
So it’s not all fairytale endings but more dirt and grime middles.
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