remotemothering

i hate being away from home during school term
cos that means even if i start work at 10 am,
i will still get up at 6am, to make sure that whoever's looking after the kid is up
make sure the kid actually has breakfast and is on her merry way.
6.15am, i'm stuck with 3 hours of nothing!
chances are the kid has been doing everything with half her eyes open
including being fed breakfast
and still gets to sleep in the car on the way to school
while i'm stuck CLIMBING the walls
trying to make sure i don't pass out and miss my appointments.
what excuse would i have for doing that?
because my sole purpose for the trip would be to make sure i get to the appointments on time.
imagine having to explain to the powers-that-be...
'ummm, why did you not manage to make all your appointments?'
no wait... cos i wouldn't voluntarily share that information
imagine they, the people i was supposed to meet, sharing this information with those in authority...
now then, imagine how much effort it would take for me to explain
that i needed to wake up early to ensure that my daughter made it to school on time and i kind of overslept!
that would sound made up, unreal almost, especially to people who don't have children...
and that's only the morning session..
i still need to make sure that around supper time, i call home again
bath time
supper time
story reading time
sleep time
then i can relax...
of course i'll need a couple of hours that i can label 'mine'...
then prepare for work the next day
this then means that i make it to bed after midnight only to be waking up at 6am once again the next morning
and so it goes again from the top..
by the end of that week i'm as tired as a freaking dog
on my way to real-time-mothering back home