We are entering week 6 of social distancing/staying at home. It's been pretty wild. I am able to work from home as of week 3. It is not as easy to work from home when you are a family of 5. It is funny, this has been kind of hard for my wife and I, but not really at the same time. The only part that is hard is the inability to go anywhere and hang with friends. My wife has been a stay at home mom for 6 years, finding things to do and taking care of her kids has been her jam. But what has made so much of that easier is friends and family to be able to visit and hang out with. School to break things up etc.
But with no school, no friends to hang out with, and a husband who has to still work 45 hours a week, suddenly she is on her own taking care of 3 kids and having to provide entertainment all the time. Add to it the need to teach my son and it's gotten pretty crazy.
For me things just blend together. I have become even more lazy than normal. I spend 9-16 hours in bed as I work from the bedroom. I don't have a dedicated office or desk or anything. I just sit in bed, propped up against the headboard with a laptop in my lap. It is weird to not leave the house for days on end. I offer up to be the one to get groceries as it gets me out of the house. Between that and occasionally driving my son around for a nap is about all I get out.
I am ready for this to be over. I miss my office. I miss hanging out with people. I miss rugby, I miss normalcy. Im sad my sons kindergarten year just got completely shafted. Hes gone from having a teacher who was engaged and saw them every day to not. To not getting to forge lifelong friendships with his classmates. I hate that his education is going to be tainted because he has to be taught by frustrated parents who dont understand the systems in place or the worksheets being given. That instructions are not clear. That this is all new and foreign to his teacher and school as well, so it is hard for her so shes basically become absent as she and the school figure out how all this work.
This all is just crazy. I hope things calm down soon and people can begin to hang out agajn soon. The medias really doom and gloom and shit but things will go back to normal. Maybe some minor changes but I dont think thhis will have the crazy lasting impacts they claim. Maybe im wrong but I doubt it. With time we will get over it and back to nornal.
Just this week theyre saying groups if five are allowed. In a month maybe back to normal. Who knows. Enough rambling. Time for sleep.
But with no school, no friends to hang out with, and a husband who has to still work 45 hours a week, suddenly she is on her own taking care of 3 kids and having to provide entertainment all the time. Add to it the need to teach my son and it's gotten pretty crazy.
For me things just blend together. I have become even more lazy than normal. I spend 9-16 hours in bed as I work from the bedroom. I don't have a dedicated office or desk or anything. I just sit in bed, propped up against the headboard with a laptop in my lap. It is weird to not leave the house for days on end. I offer up to be the one to get groceries as it gets me out of the house. Between that and occasionally driving my son around for a nap is about all I get out.
I am ready for this to be over. I miss my office. I miss hanging out with people. I miss rugby, I miss normalcy. Im sad my sons kindergarten year just got completely shafted. Hes gone from having a teacher who was engaged and saw them every day to not. To not getting to forge lifelong friendships with his classmates. I hate that his education is going to be tainted because he has to be taught by frustrated parents who dont understand the systems in place or the worksheets being given. That instructions are not clear. That this is all new and foreign to his teacher and school as well, so it is hard for her so shes basically become absent as she and the school figure out how all this work.
This all is just crazy. I hope things calm down soon and people can begin to hang out agajn soon. The medias really doom and gloom and shit but things will go back to normal. Maybe some minor changes but I dont think thhis will have the crazy lasting impacts they claim. Maybe im wrong but I doubt it. With time we will get over it and back to nornal.
Just this week theyre saying groups if five are allowed. In a month maybe back to normal. Who knows. Enough rambling. Time for sleep.
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