What does one do when, as a single parent, one has nothing left to give?
We are now five weeks into the six-week school summer holidays. I already (panic!) ran out of steam 10 days ago after our long weekend with friends in London.
As my energy and motivation are currently AWOL, I wake up a soggy, deflated, mass of grumpiness and reluctance.
Facing two cheerfully bright-eyed, bushy tailed, fully recharged little human beings can fill one with dread at this time of the year.
As my energy and motivation are currently AWOL, I wake up a soggy, deflated, mass of grumpiness and reluctance.
Facing two cheerfully bright-eyed, bushy tailed, fully recharged little human beings can fill one with dread at this time of the year.
If only top-up service stations were provided for us parents and all we had to do was to plug a hose-pipe into our mouths and fill up on our cuppso beverages of choice...
No one expects a car with an empty tank to "go" anywhere so why do we as parents force ourselves to run on empty? For weeks on end?
Ok the latter is a silly question - sometimes we have no choice.
When caffeine is simply not enough, then something extra is called for. In sheer desperation I attended my first LANO YOGA session this morning. Their philosophy is to Look After Number One.
No one expects a car with an empty tank to "go" anywhere so why do we as parents force ourselves to run on empty? For weeks on end?
Ok the latter is a silly question - sometimes we have no choice.
When caffeine is simply not enough, then something extra is called for. In sheer desperation I attended my first LANO YOGA session this morning. Their philosophy is to Look After Number One.
Everything came together: physically, mentally and emotionally. I haven't felt this fully re-charged in nearly 4 years. Yes I ache all over but I can feel all this...how do I call it? Suppressed tension that I've been holding on to, leaving all my joints.
So bring on the rest of the summer school holidays, Mary Poppins is back in business!
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