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AdaHopper · 16/02/2019 20:55

I am about to enter several years of semi-lone parenting. My H is moving abroad (a different continent) for work and I will be alone full-time with our 3 DC (12,9 and 6).

I have set up my own company and employ 10 people. I work full-time though very rarely during the weekend.

I am terrified pretty neevous about parenting them alone full-time. Money is not a real concern thankfully.

What should I get sorted to make my life easier. When/how do you get to spend quality 'me'-time? How do you organise simple things like going to the hairdresser?

I am imagining my weekends to be an endless series of driving kids to activities, laundry, cooking, and getting ready for the next school week. How do you manage without burning out? 

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AuntMarch · 19/02/2019 11:03

I don't think most single parents do go to the hairdresser very often. I know most of my mum-friends have a mobile hairdresser come in the evening if they get a chance of a hair cut at all.
You've described most weekends too, unless grandparents have a day/night to give mum a break now and again. One of my friends parents' takes her two once a month Saturday afternoon to Sunday lunch time- she will go and have Sunday lunch with them all and then bring them home. She thought that Saturday night would be her night out once a month. More often than not though, she goes to bed early and has a lie in instead!

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