This week has been one of the busiest of the year, yet it’s only the first month of the year. The boys are back at school, their new school, so I am back to being home alone. The day I dropped them off was just a disaster! First I had to be up to get some ‘guilt work’ done….that’s working from home sending some few emails so that the boss can see that working from home does work.
But in this case the ‘guilt work’ was really about serious work! The intention was to put in two hours of work, pack the boys bags into the car, wash, go buy a phone card for the boys and then drive to school. All of these things had to happen before 10, needless to say I was running fashionably late and the boys saw this and they decided to pack their bags, leaving the plastic bag with hangers…
This is no disaster, but I made it like one, wanted to drive back home from school for hangers, forgetting I could just go to a shop nearby.
By the time I left the school, I had real used that it all had nothing to do with the coat hangers, but had everything to do with the advent of loneliness.
I love being alone, yet I do not like feeling lonely