I Want a Milkshake: When Dad Works A Lot

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The Homeschool Sisters Podcast #3:

I Want a Milkshake: When Dad Works a Lot

In this episode of The Homeschool Sisters Podcast, Cait and Kara discuss what it is like when dad works or travels a lot.

It can be stressful to be the only adult on duty, 24/7. Bedtime becomes more challenging, washing machines break, and the last thing you want to think about is dinner.

Cait and Kara have been there, too, and they have some survival strategies to help you through it. From games to fantastic audiobooks to dinner picnics, we’ve got you covered!

Cait and Kara want to send a huge hug to all the single mamas out there who rock solo-parenting day in and day out. If you know a single mama, ask her kids over for a playdate so that she can get lost in a bookstore, savor a silent moment, and enjoy her coffee steaming hot!

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Books from this episode:

• A.A. Milne’s Pooh Classics Boxed Set
• Anything by Shauna Niequiest: Savor; Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life; Bread and Wine: A Loveletter to Life Around the Table with Recipes; Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way; 
• Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
• Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry by Katrina Kenison
• Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne
• The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You by Jessica N. Turner

Audiobooks mentioned in this podcast:

• Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales
• James Herriot’s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small 
• Little House on the Prairie
• The Roald Dahl Audio Collection

Games from this episode:

• Battleship
• Blink
• Cardline Animals
• Beginner Dinner Games
• Headbandz
• Monopoly
• Munchkin
• Prime Climb
• Professor Noggin Trivia Cards
• Scavenger Hunt
• Story Cubes
• Table Topics
• Timeline

Cooperative games mentioned in this episode:

• Harvest Time
• Hoot Hoot Owl
• Max
• Mermaid Island
• Race to the Treasure
• Richard Scarry’s Busytown: Eye Found It
• Snowstorm

Links and other resources from today’s show:

• Confessions of a Read Aloud Slacker ~ Shawna Wingert, Simple Homeschool
• Fairy House STEM ~ Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley, My Little Poppies
• Sparkle Stories
• The Homeschool Sisters Podcast Episode #1: We’re Out of Bread: Homeschool Overwhelm 
• The Year of Nope ~ Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley, The Homeschool Sisters

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