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Am I Supermom yet?

by Sierra on July 2, 2009 · 10 comments

in parenting

I would like my cape and tights, please. In size extra-awesome.

Menstruating? Check.
Laryngitis? Check.
Solo parenting for the week? Check.
Sudden increase in workload with both my day job and my freelance writing? Check.

Did I manage, in the past 24 hours, to conduct an interview for a magazine, run a preschool day, learn how to use my new camera, pick up our farm share, take the kids biking in spite of a light drizzle and show up at a Canada Day party with fresh-baked banana muffins? Yes, yes I did.

Now I am going to collapse, so I can do it all again tomorrow. Possibly without the banana bread, but hopefully also without the laryngitis.

(What I really mean here is: how do you single parents do this day after day? I have had more help than I will probably ever admit to this past week, so much that it hardly feels honest to say I’m goin’ it alone, and I still feel like I’ve been hit by the baby train after only a few days. How do you survive? How do your kids? Does it get easier or do you just get stronger?)

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  • http://www.zackgrossbart.com Zack Grossbart

    All the single parents I have known send their children to preschool rather than run one. There are many unmarried parents in the world, but truly single parents are very rare. Most of them get help (paid or otherwise) from friends and relatives. Raising children without a support system is just too difficult.

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  • http://www.zackgrossbart.com Zack Grossbart

    All the single parents I have known send their children to preschool rather than run one. There are many unmarried parents in the world, but truly single parents are very rare. Most of them get help (paid or otherwise) from friends and relatives. Raising children without a support system is just too difficult.

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  • Seonaid

    I think the true over-achiever step here is probably the fresh-baked banana muffins…

    I thus send you a virtual cape.

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  • Seonaid

    I think the true over-achiever step here is probably the fresh-baked banana muffins…

    I thus send you a virtual cape.

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  • http://notlikeacat.blogspot.com/ Julia Magnusson

    I’m very glad to know young Max was there to help with it all. :) And you still seem so calm and centered!!! How do you do it?

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  • http://notlikeacat.blogspot.com/ Julia Magnusson

    I’m very glad to know young Max was there to help with it all. :) And you still seem so calm and centered!!! How do you do it?

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  • http://childwild.wordpress.com/ Sierra

    He was really great! my kids adore him, and kept out of each other’s hair all morning coming up with toys and games to entertain him.

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  • http://childwild.wordpress.com/ Sierra

    He was really great! my kids adore him, and kept out of each other’s hair all morning coming up with toys and games to entertain him.

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  • lsl

    I think single parents live in a different reality, so comparisons do not apply.

    That said, go you!

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  • lsl

    I think single parents live in a different reality, so comparisons do not apply.

    That said, go you!

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