The seperate holidays and vacations. That is all me being a part time mom.
I don't even want to think about holidays. When you are a mom, all you do on holidays is to do things for the children. But many of those traditions happen on other dates, like baking cookies or trimming the tree. I think what we need to keep in mind is that a date is just a date. For example, we can still celebrate Thanksgiving but do it on that Friday or whenever we do have them that year. You can have a traditional favorite of the family instead of turkey if you want too. You can make new traditions to fit your new life.
I know it is so much harder when the kids are younger than mine are. Yours are at the age when they still want to spend so much time with you. Right now I look forward to my time alone to catch up on all those chores and do some shopping without them. It was really hard the first couple of months but now it is getting better.
Surprisingly, my children spend more time with H now than when he was at home. He is now forced to be with them. So some good came out of this mess.
Me45 H45 D13 S10 together-23 years married-21 years MLC Divorced 10/3/07 Married to a wonderful new man.
