The weekend when you are without your children, the house is empty and you are alone. Jeepers creepers. However we have found that there is a distinct pattern to the way these weekends go, so fear not if you are at first base. Within the shaking of a lamb’s tail, a home run (though more English and less whizzy: a rounder), will be scored!!!!

FIRST BASE
The house is empty, you feel alone, all your mates are with their families, and you feel weepy and sad.

SECOND BASE
You decide to be all useful and efficient, using the weekends on your own to tidy the utility room, sort the children’s clothes out and catch up! Not really my type of thing though extremely cathartic and useful phase ……….maybe it should become my thing?!

THIRD BASE
You realise that these weekends are a great opportunity to do things just for you, you do different and new things, you recharge batteries and you realise that you enjoy your own company.

HOME RUN!
The weekends alone become lifesavers. You have new interests, you are discovering yourself again and you realise that weekends alone are the most amazing and unexpected joy of single parenting!!!!!!!

Now try our marvellous worksheet to help you think about how YOU might get the most out of your weekends. An interesting by-product is that the more you enjoy your weekends, the less the children are going to worry about you, the more fun they will have on visits and the better the whole thing will work. As we say so often, a win win win win situation!