Working Single Mom

To all you working single moms out there I tip my hat to you, I salute you, I praise you.  Wow, you do have a "hard life" (a Courtney phrase - she has exclaimed on multiple occasions).  My mom was a working single mom all through my childhood and I really don't know how she did it.  Wait . . . yes I do.  She was a GENIUS at getting her kids to pick up the slack.  Something that is seriously lacking in our modern day culture.

I have been taking a teacher training course up in San Francisco this week for my yoga.  I leave my home at 8:00 am and return around 6:30 pm.  When I get home the LAST thing I want to do is put dinner together (thank heavens Danielle has been making food that the twins will eat), feed my animals or do any other chores that are related to being the mom about the compound.  I'm straight up tired!

When I was younger Skip and I both had full time jobs (he still does but still lives in LA in his apartment).  We worked our tails off and came home and enjoyed the company of each other and just kicked it in our duplex.  We would go on walks around the neighborhood.  Life was guut.  I liked it like that. I loved my job and I loved my time away from my job.  I felt my life was a good balance.  Of course, children were never a consideration at that time of my life (what was I thinking??)

Now?  Different game.  I don't know how I could EVER make this life of mine happen while being gone all day.  This sucks!!  I see "chores" stacked all over the place for me to tend to this weekend.  When Danielle said to me last night, "remember, we have a date on Saturday", I almost cringed.  I quickly thought, "What the hell did I commit to now?"  I then remembered that we are taking a yoga class together Saturday morning.   I was relieved.  However, this weekend looks scary with all the "catch up" I have to do from not being around this week.

I have two more days of this crazy schedule.  I LOVE what I'm learning.  I'm pretty proud of myself for learning how to maneuver on public transportation and I'm grateful for all the support that Danielle and Brian are giving me from the home front.  I'll be happy to return to my "normal" (if there really is such a thing) life when this is over.