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What do I do routinely each week? Well, I guess I check the school website a lot. I'm a bit obsessive about it now because I missed an important date in the children's school calendar a few years back. It was World Book Day and they were all supposed to go dressed up as their favourite character. Thank goodness my friend phoned me the night before to ask if I had an eye patch for Captain Hook. If she hadn't, I would have missed it completely and the kids would have been mortified. They love dressing up.

As a single parent, I budget very carefully and I'm always going online to check my bank balance.

We have a big family calendar in the kitchen where I make notes of everyone's social engagements. This has been more important as the children get older. Their lives are starting to be filled up with parties, after school clubs, scouts and swimming. Sometimes, it's hard getting them to all these places and I have to coordinate with friends about who is picking up and dropping off and so on. A group of us parents share the responsibility to make it easier for all of us. But one girl always forgets. It's maddening!