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"Last night, the kids came home after their holiday weekend, and I was scrambling to get a bunch of things done so we could hit the sack a little sooner. I&amp;#039;m managing a very important global conference at the day job today and I had to be in very early which meant I had to rearrange David&amp;#039;s morning routine - not an easy thing for a child with autism and definitely not an easy thing for the busy trying-to-get-out-the-door working Mom of a child with autism. So the kids got into bed at a very reasonable time and I was up till midnight doing some extra odds and ends associated with work when the universe decided to align in a perfect storm of bad timing. David was throwing up. Luckily, it was only the one time and he had no fever, so it was probably something he ate.  I couldn&amp;#039;t take a chance sending him to school, but I had to be at work today, and I have no one to fall back on. Peter lives too far away, we have no family around, my neighbors all have kids, too and I can&amp;#039;t expose their kids to this. I ended up having to do something I really, sincerely didn&amp;#039;t want to do. I had to keep Anna home from school to watch David until I could break away from work to take over. Single parent solutions that aren&amp;#039;t really solutions at all. This is my life now, sometimes, and whenever it happens I just feel such helpless rage about it. He&amp;#039;s my kid. I should be there. I need to be at work, so Peter should be able to step in. Neither of those things were able to be, and it&amp;#039;s rough. It&amp;#039;s just rough. I&amp;#039;m tired. I&amp;#039;m frustrated. And I want to be home with my kid. If this had happened any other week at my job, I would be, but it didn&amp;#039;t. It happened today and I am just stuck. Do you ever get frustrated, going it alone? How do you cope when you hit a bump like this? [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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