I have to say I love it! I love the 'me time' it gives me LOL. My DH works in a mine so they have a 4 day on 4 day off roster, so yesterday he started a 4 day-day shift, then he's home again for 4 days and then he's in for a 4 day night shift. It is hard, especially when you have something on and you have to go alone, but I'm fine with that most of the time. But he's been doing it for a few years now so I've had time to get used to it. On nightshift I cook him dinner to take with him and do enough for the rest of us so all I have to do its reheat it, then I get the kids to bed on time and I have the rest of the night to myself - I don't have to worry about him telling me I stay up too late watching crappy TV, or I can be on here, or just doing cross stitch etc.

It was hard getting used to sleeping without him because I have never been good at sleeping without him, but then the other times he was never here it was usually cause he was having a boys weekend with his mates or down at the pub etc and I think it was more worry about what he was doing kwim? But I'm past that now and I sleep fine.

I know shift work seems really family UNfriendly, but with the shifts that my DH works, he only actually works for 6mths of the year - the other 6mths he is home, and there aren't many other jobs were you would get that, certainly not a 9-5 job, so he sees more of the kids than a lot of other dads would.