Single Mums

I never knew just how boring my life probably is until I attempted this challenge. Day in day out it seems that nothing of any interest happens to me.

Yes being a mum of three teenage kids and working means I’m kept incredibly busy, but that’s pretty much my life in a nutshell. I go take kids to school, go to work, pick kids up from school, take kids to whatever after school activity is on depending on what day of the week it is, come home, feed kids, go to bed and start all over again the next day. The only slight variation to this is the weekends when every second saturday I don’t work and don’t take the kids to school and Sundays when there’s no work or school. But I still run kids to their chosen sporting activity etc.

That’s it though.

I haven’t been out with my mates in I don’t know how long - the kids have a much more active social life than what I do. I very rarely go shopping to get something just for myself - in fact the last time I bought myself something new was when I was getting new school shoes for the kids and noticed I could get some cheap pants for work.

I haven’t even had a night on my own for months - I don’t even care if I just stay home - without the kids means I can watch what I want on tv and not have to have the volume up full bore just to hear over them. I can eat what I want when I feel like it, rather than eating cause the kids are telling me they’re starving and can’t wait any longer for tea (that of course is after they’ve eaten everything in site when they get home from school etc)

Don’t get me wrong - in some cases I treat the kids sporting activities as my social events - I have some good friends among the other parents so those nights that I’m sitting there while they’re training could be classed as a time out for me - and I do enjoy it - but it would be nice to catch up with my mates.

I was only thinking about that on the way home from work today - of all my friends that I grew up with most of whom I’ve known for 30 odd years now - there are only a few that are married and have kids., Many of them are still single and ya know - listening to what they get up to - the partying every weekend etc I really don’t think I could do it - One I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I didn’t have my kids and two, I couldn’t handle going out and drinking etc the way they do - it’d take me all week to recover About the only thing they have that I don’t is the ability to take off at the drop of a hate without having to plan holidays etc around children.

Yes I moan and groan about being a single mum, and yes my life is as boring as hell sometimes, but I wouldn’t trade it - instead I might try to find a way to break out of this routine