Me Time For Single Moms

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As a single mom, it’s a challenge to get any ME time in your MOM schedule, isn’t it? It sure can feel you are always there for your kids, and your schedule is over-full and jam-packed the rest of the day with work, commute and errands.

So how can you get some MomME time?

I’ve been polling a number of moms, and the answer we all come up with is you MUST make 20 minutes of time for yourself a top priority in your life.  You have to SCHEDULE that time in your daily calendar so you can decompress and give yourself some feminine destressing self-care time.

Really you have 2 basic choices which certainly will work:

1. Either stay up an extra 20 minutes after your kids have gone to bed, Or;
2. Get up and extra 20 minutes before they get up in the morning.

Because really, once your kids are home from their school day and all those extracurricular activities, they need you and want time with you.  So trying to over-squeeze your afternoon and evening time once they are home can really feel like too much, doesn’t it?

Alternatively, if you are a single mom who is divorced, revel in some MomME time when your children are visiting their dad.  When our lives are so wrapped up in our children and they go to visit their dad, we can almost feel a little emotional let down, don’t we?  Well, rather than missing them so much, which of course we do, and worrying about them, instead embrace that time for you and practice some excellent self-care.

Well, I am oh so not a morning person, and few of my mom GFs are either.  So, you know what we do…

However, the idea is to work well with your internal time clock.

Just think…. 20 more minutes for ME time in your day.

What will you do with it?

Something destressing, fun, and frivolous! Something which is just for you and your enjoyment.  If you didn’t feel maybe just a weeny bit guilty having all that fun just for yourself, you haven’t been fun and frivolous enough – yet!

To get the ideas started for you:

• Play some music on your iPod and dance around your room.
• Enjoy a scented bubble bath.
• Give yourself a whole body lotioning up before you go to bed.
• Use a perfume scented cream before you start your busy day.
• Invest that 20 minutes in some prayer, meditation, and reflection time, whatever your religious or spiritual beliefs are.

You can do this for yourSELF.  Why? Because, really, you ARE worth it.

April Braswell is Relationship and Dating Expert with expertise as an Online Dating Coach. Her own story includes 7 major deaths in 6 years, including the death of her husband of 13 months.  To her, it’s Relationships Matter Most in all areas of our lives. Even so, we gotta have some ME time.

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