What do you do?
Do you fling yourself wholeheartedly into the role of nursemaid and companion, or do you try surlily to work around this?
My youngest dd has been off A LOT this year, and although I don't believe in forcing them to go in when they are unwell, I have got very behind with work. The work I do (writing) is not possible to do at the same time as looking after a sick kid - I need to focus, bigtime, so I tend to just send emails in a surly manner, and plan meetings, and stuff like that.
But I feel (Sigh) that I am a) not giving my daughter due attention and b) not giving my work due attention.
THe other slightly more selfish thing is that I normally exercise during the day when the dds are at school - and I just can't, can't, can't, bring myself to put on my Ministry of Sound DVD when she is at home, and leap around. It feels plain wrong, but if she's off for two weeks, that's me larded up. What do others do?
Oh - I am a lone parent atm, my dh comes back at weekends to hang with the kids but we are separated atm.
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wickerman · 03/06/2009 12:56
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