For single working parents like me, summer isn’t all fun and games
“My flip phone started buzzing in my pocket right before I drove into the parking lot of my daughter’s school. I had arrived 15 minutes early, planning to use that time to sit in the car with my eyes closed, giving myself a rare opportunity to relish a quiet moment in my transition from my morning full of cleaning a client’s house and attending a literature class. It was Friday, which meant I would have my bouncy 5-year-old daughter with me, and I involuntarily gritted my teeth thinking about the mental and physical exhaustion that was sure to come. I looked at my phone and my stomach immediately did a flip.”