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I'm in the same boat.  Just got myself a tent and taking girls with me (8 and 6) for the half term at the end of May.  Nervous - but i know we'll be fine.  I've decided to go to a site that I'm familar with - albeit I stayed in a static van there!  Still, I did a dry run with the tent yesterday (Ontario 6) and managed that with limited assistance and just hoping for good weather by the end of the month.  Let us know what you do, where you go and how it went.  I'm sure you'll be fine!  Single Mum's can do, and married mums without hubby's can do too!  

Good luck!

I'm just back from  four nights away with no Hubby around for two of them. They were definately the better two nights...Hubby and I do tend to run at completely different paces on site and it really showed this weekend. The chores were done first thing and the kids and I had gone out by 9am..if Hubby had been there he'd still have been struggling to conciousness via a third cuppa! My kids like to be back on site by mid afternoon to play and this suits me...I'm getting tired by then and I like a sit down, plus leisurely meal prep. Hubby sometimes isn't ready to go out till after lunch. Etc.

This year Hubby goes home two weeks into our big French trip and I'll be on my own with just the kids for nearly three weeks. Apart from being a tad concerned as to what would happen if I or a kid got ill/had an accident I'm really looking forwards to this bit. The kids and I are going to do all the things that Hubby hates...tacky theme parks with endless bouncy castles, animal parks and days on the beach. And far too much pizza, I expect! We'll do the big cycle runs and snorkling whern Hubby comes back out for the last week. We're just going to stay put on a site with good facilities, which might get a bit boring after two weeks, but I'm going for as stressless as possible. If this works for us then we'll organise a more ambitious moving on holiday next year, once son is tall enough to help me put up the TT.

You can always manage with a far smaller tent if there's no man in it, btw. They seem to take up a heck of a lot of space, don't they?