The following is written by my Facebook friend Kim Holland.
This is a copy and paste of a Facebook status by her, and used with her permission.
Grammar Nazis be kind. She was posting not blogging!!
Being a single mother is truly the hardest task I have ever had to manage...my days start at 5:45am (ok, 6am, cuz I like to snooze!), I get up let the dog out & feed him, make myself some coffee and enjoy a few minutes of quiet by myself; then I shower & get ready for work. At 7:30am, I get my 3 kids up for school, finish getting myself ready, holler for them to get out of bed multiple times...make sure hair is brushed, snacks are in backpacks and teeth are brushed...I stopped worrying if clothes match a long time ago, lol. We leave the house around 7:50-8:00am & I drop them off at school, then I head to my job & work for the next 8 hours. If I am able to leave work by 5pm, the drive to pick-up kids is only about 15-20 minutes, however, if I leave at 5:15pm, the drive is 40 minutes (UGH!). SO, I pick-up the kids, head home & start making dinner; go through backpacks while cooking & get them started on homework. Sometimes I can throw in a load of laundry too. Finish cooking, serve dinner, eat, clean-up; finish any remaining homework and then start bath time. Do kids bath time, make sure teeth are brushed, get clothes out for tomorrow, let kids play for a minute, run dishwasher, switch laundry over from washer to dryer & usually start another load...tonight was really special, because I had to mow my front & back yard too and water! So we didn't sit down to do our 20 minutes of daily reading until 8:30pm. Typically try to get kids to bed by 8:30-9:00pm; switch laundry again, fold the dry laundry, put some away and now sitting down to read email & pay bills. So after a 15 hour day of go, go, go...I might actually get to sit down and watch a little TV, if I don't pass out. What's my point, you ask? I have several....1) for those of you that don't have kids (or custody of), enjoy your free time & have a little compassion when those of us that DO are a little crazy 2) this is a SHOUT OUT to all the single parents (moms & dads) who go through this EVERY DAY and manage to keep a smile on their faces 3) I wouldn't change this for anything in the world, although I am exhausted and sometimes crabby, there is nothing greater than, like tonight, doing homework w/my kids and realizing that the twins are READERS now!! The greatest gift was seeing their faces light-up and asking me, over & over, if they could read to me. I am one proud mama!!
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