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One of those days... by Tina Shaw
Have you ever had one of those days when you wished you’d never got out of bed? I am having one of those months. Let me tell you about it…
The last few months have been chaotic to say the least; I am renovating my house… say no more.
This means that I have many tradespeople running around, men with questionable personal hygiene and lots of banging, hammering and let’s not forget the builder’s disco that is going on in my backyard. They like their radio. Couple this with my uncompromising work schedule, the fact that I have also been authoring a book AND that I am the solo parent of a first grader and basically, you have total mayhem. Just keeping it all together on a daily basis has been almost impossible.
I am highly strung, highly stressed and highly likely to have a coronary (or give someone else one) if something doesn’t change soon.
I’m really not being the parent that I want to be lately. There are just too many external conflicts interfering with my time with my boy… and my sanity.
"How on earth do single parents do it?" I hear this all the time from friends whose husbands have been working away. Well let me just say this… you will never know until you are one. There is no financial safety net, no nipping out to the stores once the kids are in bed, basically you are on your own, always. Not just for a few days, weeks or months... always.
It’s hard that’s what it is.
My plan is - firstly to take a few very deep breaths and cool off a little. Then take stock and tackle one issue at a time. Building has nearly ceased. My book is finished (you can purchase at www.biznessbasics.com) and I can see that at some stage in the future I will get a break.
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