The thing about ideal evenings is I know I can’t have them every night. But right now I don’t have any aspect of them on most nights. It was a wake-up call for me to make some shifts; to get off the computer and into other things.

I have my two girls for two weeks at a time (my ex and I share custody), so ideal evenings are different depending if they’re with me, or I’m on my own.

One thing that stays constant is time to myself each evening that is just for me. Time that I can write, paint, draw, read, cross-stitch…. Whether I have the girls or not.