It’s my daughter’s first school swimming carnival and I don’t know what to do. I work full-time. I have three kids, all of whom are now at school. Which means a large number of sports carnivals and concerts and parent-teacher meetings and open days and soccer/cricket games and drop-offs and pick-ups.
Add to that the inordinate amount of school holidays they seem to get and most days I’m faced with the same problem as every working parent: how do I clone myself so I can be in several places at once?
And because bloody Science has not yet sorted out the cloning thing except for Dolly the sheep which, frankly, I think was a waste of cloning because how busy are sheep anyway, I was forced to turned to Facebook for advice.
If by advice you mean sympathy which is really what I was looking for. My girlfriends and I do this a lot. We pose “what shall I do?” questions that are actually a plea for permission to skip something we want to get out of because we’ve stretched ourselves too thin.
I wanted permission. Because the swimming carnival goes from 9-3pm and there’s only so much time I can take off work. So I wrote this: