A Day in the Life of a Working Single Mom
When you’re juggling multiple roles, there is no typical day
I am a mother; a divorced mother, a single mother, a co-parenting mother, a working mother, a student mother, a boy-mom, and a girl-mom.
I sat down to write about my typical day, a day in the life of piece, but when you’re juggling multiple roles, there is simply no such thing. When you’re a single, working mom, every day is different. Single parents, especially those of us who are uncoupled, fulfill all the roles and manage all the surprises.
Most days I feel like my life is a big obstacle course, yet I keep moving forward — with velocity, until I crash, then start again.
Single parents do it all, and we rarely have a break, for when the kids do go to the other parent, we pick up all the other pieces of our lives.
We do the homework and the last-minute science projects — running around the house collecting empty toilet paper rolls and running to the store late-night for poster board! We make the dinner, and pickup and drop-off, and buy the birthday presents, and get the clothes ready, and make the lunches, and bathe, and read bedtime stories, and clean up from dinner, and kiss the…
