With Doug traveling so much these past nine months, I have gotten a small taste of what it would be like to be a single parent. It has to be extremely stressful to be the only one responsible for every parenting decision or to be the sole person in charge of all of the parenting duties such as homework check, laundry issues, lunch making and more. Thankfully, we are well past most of that in the Heinisch home. Cameron's very good at making sure that all of his homework is done and that his grades are acceptable to both he and I. He also is very good at letting me know where he is and who he is with after school and on the weekends. Thus, my parenting role has really revolved more around meals for lunches, keeping up on laundry and making sure that Cameron is up on time in the morning. I helped with all of those tasks before Doug started traveling, so not too much has changed in that regard.
What has really been different with Doug gone, is just how quiet the nights have become when Cameron isn't home. I am glad that he keeps himself busy and always enjoy listening to him talk about all of his activities. This past week highlights included dancing at the semi-formal, attending a birthday party, spending the night at Avery's (twice), shopping with Samuel, volunteering at the veterinarian clinic and keeping stats for the girls basketball team. With Cameron busy and Doug traveling, it did make for some long evenings at home. That was when I could really sympathize with the single parents of the world. Fortunately, Doug will be soon and it won't be quite so quiet around here anymore.
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