How do you manage?

ChastityB

About to be newly single and expecting my second. I am revealed and worried at the same time. What do you do to make ends meet and still be able to spend time with your children.

haleyw458

I work full-time at an elementary school so I have DS picked up by 4 each day. I also have a part-time job on the weekends from 6 p.m-3 a.m. And I go to school full-time. I take online classes so I do all of my homework after DS goes to bed.

I have to wake up a little earlier in the mornings so he can have his cuddle time or he will be cranky ALL day. It's hard, but it's what I have to do. I just take full advantage of all the time that we do have together.

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Raspberry807

I became a single mom when my 2nd was 6 weeks old.  To make ends meet, I moved into a smaller apartment and came up with a budget.  Thankfully I was able to breastfeed until he was 3 months old so I saved on formula there.  I couldn't imagine getting a 2nd job so I started looking for a better fulltime job and actually was very lucky to land one with higher pay, better benefits and closer to home.

I loved that apartment, but a year later I was able to buy a house in a little neighborhood with a great elementary school... today my babies are almost 4 and 6, I have an even better job, and we get home in the evenings by 5pm so we have plenty of time to make dinner together with my SO and his DD and hang out!

To spend more time with them when it was just the 3 of us, I'd take them everywhere with me.  We spent a lot of time with my family in the summer, just to get out of the little apartment.  Their dad rarely wanted to spend time with them, but when he did, all I wanted to do was grocery shop in peace

achase123

It's tough.  I get up at 5am every morning to workout.  Then I get ready, and if I'm lucky, I get time to study before P wakes up.  When he wakes up I try to snuggle with him for a little bit and rock.  At night I try to spend time with him before he goes to bed and get things done when he is asleep (he usually goes down between 7:30 and 8)

emily0829

I'm sorry that you're in the situation, and it IS scary, but hopefully you can fit into a routine which will make it seem easier on some days. (at least for me)

I work full time as a business analyst at a major bank. I get up for work early enough so that when I'm getting DS ready, I'm not rushing around. We spend time together in the morning, and I drop him off at the sitter's home.

I get off of work at 5, I get to him about 5:30 - 5:45 depending on traffic. From that time on, I don't have any distractions. We do play time, dinner together, bath and PJs. I give him his night-time bottle while I'm rocking him. It settles him down, and it also gives us more time to snuggle. He goes to bed between 8 - 8:30.

I'm fortunate to have a well paying job and pretty flexible that I can support myself and my son without child support. (STBXH is so sporadic with it) You will find that you have strength you didn't know you had before. Everything will be okay.

FerreraRocher

Thankfully I am able to budget and still have some leftover. I've been saving like a fiend just in case something were to happen. I work M-F 8-5pm without a lunch break. It's hard but I make it work. I'm so sorry you are going through all of that