single mum for 9 days

[eidsvold]

dh flies out to the UK tonight to visit with family and find out exactly what is going on with FIL. So once he is gone I am on my own until next Tues morning. No activities as it is winter break - 2 weeks off kindy, school therapy etc. Have lined up some visits to catch up with friends but I am not sure how I am going to cope on my own.

I am so in awe of single parents let alone single parents of children with sn.

Will let you know how we all get on. Am dragging the dds to the airport at 9pm tonight. Dh flies out at 11.45pm. We are not staying all that time but I thought they should go and say goodbye so I can use that as a point of reference when dd1 asks for dad.

Am sad we are not going too but too expensive for all of us to go at short notice - or even at all at this time of year. Perhaps if FIL hangs on we might be able to go later in the year for him to meet dd2 and see the amazing progress dd1 has made since we left the UK 2 years ago.

Sorry you can't all go

Hope the next few weeks go ok for you

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eidsvold I always find the day he leaves and one or two after are the worst - once you and the children settle to the routine it will seem easier. Also in the states so will be around evenings if you need to post and england is sleeping.

well he got there okay. I had to do the shopping yesterday - something I usually do of a night by myself or clothes etc with dd2 when dd1 is in kindy. They did really well in the morning. Luckily it was a small shop in terms of groceries.

BUT i had to go out in the afternoon and they were not so good - picking at each other in the double trolley. I was in a change room trying on some jeans to hear both of them start crying - i think ( from what dd1 could tell me) she annoyed dd2 so dd2 bit her. Here I am madly tryign to get out of jeans and get my clothes back on to comfort two monkeys crying like mad. Dd1 then realised there was a mirror so put on her oscar winning performance. As you guessed this ceased once we moved away from the mirror.

IN another store - poor shoppers were treated to a curtain flash of me trouserless!! Like that is something you want to see.

At home they have been okay - just sticking to their routine - but lots of asking for daddy so we talk about planes, airports etc. They will get to talk to him tomorrow morning your time. Off out to play with friends this morning.

I jsut find it hard at night once they have gone to bed - very quiet.

My sympathies. I did it for a week when DD2 was teeny tiuny and I had shingles. Not nice and i was very pleased to see him home I can tell you. However unlike you once they went to bed that was the best bit. Long baths, lot of reading and best of all diagonal sleeping!
Good luck.

Are they in bed yet?

oh they went off pretty easily last night although dd1 managed to have her stair gate fall over and so she 'escaped' whilst I was talking to my db on the phone. SHe did however tidy ehr toys away and go to bed when I asked a little later. Best thing - we are on holidays and with winter they seem to be sleeping a little later.

dh got there safely. SIL sent me some email pics of dh and his family.

dh got ready to show mil the video we did for her and he could not get the vcr to work probably a good thing grandma would have been bawling!!

well almost at the end.

No real dramas although dd2 kissed the concrete ( pebble tex no less) and has a wonderful egg and gravel rash on her forehead and down her nose.)

I take my hat of to any single parents - boy it is so knackering and really I am not doing much more than I normally would do with dh here and yet I am knackered - in bed early every night except one when I couldn't sleep.

Dh has had a fab time with his family catching up and spending time with his dad. Good for him. They are offering good deals for airfares later in the year so we might sit down and see if we can scrimp and save and take the dds later in the year for a couple of weeks.

Suitcase full of toys and bits for the dds - Grandma and aunty went shopping for them. Dh was given orders to hit bluewater for the sales and he got some nice summer things for them for the end of the year - or in a couple of months -nothing for me nah not really - figure I can go off for a spa day or something and have a relax.

For our last day we are going to the beach to visit my brother and sister in law.

So we did it.

dh leaves UK lunchtime today and arrives back Tues morning our time - mon night your time.