Daily schedule for toddlers Flickr photo by Daquella Manera I
know that you don't have to be a sometimes single parent to live
or die by the schedule. But the biggest challenge we face is
trying to carve one out when there's oftentimes nothing to
depend on.  In many households, there is a fair level of
predictability. If it's a single income household, then the
working parent usually gets home at the same time every day. Or
has some sort of schedule that can be followed.  For dual
working households, the same rule generally applies.  But when
you've got a spouse who travels inconsistently, or who is
working out of town and is at the liberty of planes being able
to fly at the time they are scheduled to do so, creating a
schedule can be a maddening process.  I will say that when my
husband flies commercial trips, it's actually a bit easier.
He'll give me his schedule about two weeks before it starts and
I can see when he's on-call (and could possibly be home or could
possibly be gone) and when he's off.  But wi