What day is it?

We are pressing on...
Things are feeling tight...
It’s not what you’d think about waiting in limbo...
Right?
No school, no plans, no activities... then play it loose... just hang and roll with it...
But the unknown...
What’s coming?
How bad is it going to be?
Are we ahead of the curve?
Are we over reacting?
Will the economy bounce back?
Will the kids recover academically?
What will it do?
To the election and the government...
To the supply lines and the schools...
To the people I know and love...

To my job?

But we are pressing on... the house is getting tight...
The muscles too...
But we are pressing on...

Today we had to split them up....
We had to call an audible halfway through the day.
We are learning - so now we know - we need some contingencies if they are losing it.
Insert solo time, or insert quiet reading time, or something... but now we know its an option...

We are finding the post meal transitions are the hardest...
After breakfast is not so bad... as its just the start of the schedule...
But after lunch and after dinner the kids seem to go kind of bonkers...
Today seemed particularly hard because we all ate lunch together - i think that’s the first time that’s happened since this all started...
We also ran into the challenge of both of us balancing co-parenting and working from home at the same time... that’s a lot of hats for Jen and i to be wearing at once... but we got through it... made our way... we are pressing on.

Today we also had the hard job of telling Scooter that she was not going to be able to hang with with her friends, really in any way... for a while... a friend wanted to go for a bike ride - they promised they’d keep they’re distance and so on... but it just feels like... well... when you give a mouse a cookie... its just going to keep it simpler and more clear for us all if its black and white... we are not hanging with friends right now... negotiations around details and giving a little and this or that becomes that much harder to negotiate and enforce... she did not take this well... I wouldn’t either... it sucks... its hard - and we tried to explain that we understood and its not an easy call to make - and its not just us being parents saying no... but it still feels that way to her... i get it... and she got through it... she’s pressing on... just like Squirt did yesterday when horseback riding was cancelled...

So we played catch and cards and they made art and did some projects and we’ll keep going day to day...