With it being 13 years since my ex and I separated and later divorced, I have learnt a thing or two about managing a house, job and children on me own.It can’t be all bad though as my me and my partner have never done the living together bit. I love climbing into a double bed on my own. I love sprawling on the sofa with full control of the remote. I love the fact that if I want to watch trashy tv all evening with the kids I can. There are though a few things I can just about guarantee this will happen to you at some point. And they are not all good.
The kids have gone to bed. Your tired and knackered and you make yourself a well deserved cup of coffee. The kettle has boiled the smell of coffee fills the room. It is at this point you remember or discover you are out of milk or sugar. It will be the one thing you cant go without in your drink. It is also at the point you look at the clock and any shop in any near distance will have shut precisely one minute earlier.
You will at some point send your kids to school with odd socks. It won’t be a mistake, it will be the only the only socks that are clean or don’t have holes in.
One day someone will ask your name, your kids name or your child’s date of birth. All things we have engraved in our minds and probably makes up most peoples passwords. But one day when someone asks you your brain will do a sort of short circuit and you can’t recall the vital information. You will look an idiot and sound like an idiot.
You will find yourself sitting somewhere longer than you should just because its quiet. My fav is the car. You will suddenly realize that your on your own, no one is asking you a hundred questions and its peaceful. So peaceful its deafening. Its so lovely you pause and just …well pause really. You don’t think, you don’t do anything.
Yes to every single one of these!
On my own with the kids since 2009 and no plans to change that ANY time soon. Starfishing in a double bed by yourself – priceless. 😀