I can cook!

This past week I've effectively been a single parent as Marc as been in Lancaster celebrating our nephew's 18th birthday (gosh I feel old!)
It has been a strange time being on my own, initially I was terrified and in Daniels words "what will we eat, Daddy does ALL the cooking!" And i also am not very good in my own company !

After a disastrous start on Friday when I spoke to hardly anyone apart from at the school gate until dear friends popped over to watch a film the time has flown by; but best of all I've discovered I'm not that bad at cooking ... My 2 boys have eaten everything I've produced which is miraculous for Daniel at least and also we haven't had to utilise any fast food chains!
I also discovered I have the gift of the gab chatting to anyone at the wedding fair in Bluewater and even trialling the new table talk weddings game with a group of excitable hens!

What has been hard is the evenings when the boys have gone to bed the sheer quietness becomes eerie and the novelty of choosing what to watch on TV soon wears off .
Working with the bereaved I now understand what they mean when they say they struggle when the door closes in the evening. Those who are single parents obviously have this all the time and my hat goes off to you managing to juggle and co ordinate school runs meal times mountains of washing the list is endless .

My time alone will end late tonight but I want to keep on learning to cook not all the time but definitely more regularly and I also want to thank those family and friends who made the effort to  check in on me  . As a tutor once said I'm  actually a shy extrovert I need people !