If you are a single mother you better also be a master of organization. Since there is only you to take care of everything you need to make sure your calendar runs like a well oiled machine.
Kids always need to go somewhere and when they are too young to drive there’s just you to get them there and back. Juggling work responsibilities, sports practices, doctors visits, school meetings and sleepovers can make your head spin. If you don’t write it down you will forget.
Do you have a calendar that you use, or like many of us, are there random pieces of paper everywhere? I would be lost without my day planner. One of my friends refuses to carry one because she says she is not living her life out of a book, she wants to be more spontaneous.
I would love to be more spontaneous but the orthodontist doesn’t approve of us just dropping in, so we have to schedule appointments. Without my day planner, I would completely forget those appointments in the hustle of every day life.
It would be nice if there was someone else to take my child to those appointments once in a while, but there’s not, so I manage her schedule. Things have gotten easier as Hailey has gotten older. She drives and manages her own time, but we still use my day planner.
Hailey knows that everything goes on the calendar otherwise, I’m lost. If it’s on the calendar I write it in my day planner. If Hailey isn’t home and there is nothing on the calendar I start to worry. The calendar is a communication tool for us as well. If Hailey leaves before I get home she writes on the calendar the name of the friend she’s with, or she calls me.
I couldn’t juggle all these balls without my calendar. It keeps me sane and gets everything done.