Divorcee Drop Off Day

I’m feeling flat today after dropping my 2 littlest ones off at school and knowing they’ll be at their dad’s until next Wednesday. 5 whole days until I get my boys back. Such is the plight of the newly divorced parent. Sigh. On the one hand, oh the time and space devoid of breaking up silly tussles and wearisomely responding to interminable “I’m hungry!” laments. On the other hand, the sorrowfully immaculate bedrooms, the eerily orderly nerf guns, the silence heavy without giggles, banal banter or even the reassuringly familiar sibling raging. Damn I miss them.

So, how to enjoy the oppressively thick solitude? Well, let’s get a grip here Bianca, for starters there are 3 more boisterous kids keeping this house bustling and messy, these ones are just bigger, equally as loved, significantly little less cuddly. Then there’s work – I’ve got masses to focus on to keep my brain stimulated; the day job, the side hustles and oh I’ve started studying for a qualification in Jungian psychology (that primordial drive to keep on learning is irrationally insatiable). And let’s not forget the rafts of laundry and never-dissipating domestic drudgery to plough through. Yup, the void will quickly fill. The time will flow and in the blink of an eye Wednesday will be here seeing me rampantly juggling school pick-ups beteeen work meetings plus food shops and broken drains and homework shenanigans and present shopping and and and and…

Come to think of it, what the hell am I sad about? Isn’t 11am on a lockdown Friday actually gin o’clock?

(Picture represents most recent Dinner Date Night With Twins where the carefully 11-year-old-chosen menu comprised breadsticks, pepperamis, olives and apple juice #michelinstar)

Author(s)

  • Bianca Best

    Bianca Best | Author, Entrepreneur, Global Exec, Coach, Mother, Speaker, Believer

    The Burnout Business

    Bianca Best is a woman of impact. She is an award-winning global business leader, best-selling author, founder & CEO of The Burnout Business and Energy-SCAPE™ method, certified coach, keynote speaker and solo parenting mother of 4 passionately eradicating the world’s burnout epidemic at scale.

    Bianca describes her CV as a chronology of passions explored and includes a decade as a techpreneur running The Bespoke Gift Company which pioneered the personalised gift industry forever, a decade of corporate ascendency running vast digital divisions in the world’s largest comms conglomerates from WPP to Publicis Groupe, to certifying in healing modalities from hypnotherapy to executive coaching (ICF accredited) to the Energy Codes™, to her international impact inspiring the working world through her keynotes and workshops in organisations like Google, Amazon and Snap, books, vlogs and corporate programmes.

    Her work is dedicated to infusing the working world with graceful productivity, kind leadership and unlocked human potential whereby individuals and organisations flourish and big impact without burnout is the mainstay.

    For more of her work and sparkle visit www.biancabest.com