Post by erinshelley21 on Apr 4, 2020 7:12:33 GMT -5
DH is home all weekend, so it will be nice to have help with the kids. I have painting on the agenda as well as laundry and cleaning. So, same as the last 4 weekends haha
This has been a very difficult week, balancing work and kids alone. And that’s with me being lucky that my workload has reduced. I really empathize with those of you who still need to balance a full workload with the kids at home.
We had a lot of tech issues in the first official homeschool rollout week. Our kids iPads were too old to use the platforms and it made for a lot of tears. We bought a chromebook Tuesday and apparently it was one of the last ones in our area, as I recommended them to friends and they couldn’t get one within 250 miles. We tried getting a printer but there are none around.
Yesterday was probably the worst day of all, my 8 year old daughter just needs more help and it’s hard to balance my 4 year old and her work and my work. My husband is working 13 days on, 2 days off. Sometimes he is going in the middle of the night and staying.
They rolled out new expectations yesterday in one of my three virtual meetings and all of the educators are panicking at the demands and deadlines.
I’ve decided it’s going to be ok if my daughter didn’t do half of her math, any of her SS or Science, and most of her specials assignments. She did ELA and half of math and that’s what we could do.
Maybe next week will be better now that my older 11 year old son is now self sufficient with his technology, I can devote more time to her. My little one is starting to understand “school time” when he is allowed to play quietly with puzzles, hot dots (this is good for preschool age) or play ABC Mouse or watch leapfrog DVDs. Im doing school time for one hour (sometimes longer if I can distract the little one longer) and then we catch up in the afternoon when he is in his room for “downtime”. But that seems to be when I have my work meetings so I dk. I don’t have a game plan for schedules much more than that.
Today we are going to go outside and get in the middle of our abandoned street and create a giant hopscotch obstacle course path I saw online and tell our neighbors to come enjoy and we can watch them.
I’m scrapping the rest you guys. If the school workload is getting you down, do what you can and put the rest away.
It was a day from hell, kids were brutal, I couldn't focus on the work I needed to get done and I was just ready to throw in the towel. ExH has been such a jerk this week. And then after the girls went to their dad's, beau surprised me at my house!
We hadn't seen each other in about two weeks, which I realize isn't even that long. But my only in-person adult interaction has been ExH every couple days, which is not ideal for my mental health. And I thought I wasn't going to see beau for weeks more until this was over.
I guess he convinced his ex that I am not a disease risk since I'm just as locked down as they are. I haven't even entered a store in a month, I've done only pick up/delivery.
Weekend is off to good start..son is occupied by a live Scout activity online. We plan a bike ride today, a virtual playdate and re-organizing backyard since this will be our new escape space til shelter in place is over... Then we will watch a broadway play in backyard later
I'm working probably both days. Left DD and the dog home with DH. It is supposed to rain all weekend. The office seems so quiet today it is almost eerie. Rainy weekend here. I'm supposed to dye DD's tips of her hair purple tomorrow. I've never dyed anything so that should be interesting.
DD talks all the time other than when she is reading and I'm starting to tune it out really well. Well late yesterday afternoon I was stuck on this complicated multi dividend with multiple foreign tax and I started talking it out as I was off. DD was turned around and went "mommy will you be quiet I'm trying to read" and "I fired back DD now you know how I feel when you talk all day long while I'm trying to work". I went back to talking it out and she stood up and put her hands over her ears to read. I did finally find my $61 in ordinary dividends and the $3 in foreign dividends I was off.
campermom, when I talked to DD's teacher this week I made sure to tell her which kind of tablet we had and that we had PC desktop. I know the schools use Ipads and Chromebook and we've tried using some of the programs before at home and it doesn't work with android tablet or even my PC desktop. My sister teachers high school health and she was complaining on how hard it was to switch to online and how what they need to do isn't feasible and the requirements keep changing and not for the better. I kind of tuned her out as she kept going on and on.
Now all of our beaches are fully closed (last weekend you could still go to a state beach, just parking lots were closed), so I researched to try to find something open close by where we could do something outside. We ended up going to a park nearby that had a few short hiking trails this morning. That was nice to get outside and have a slight change of scenery. The whole time we were there, we only saw two other people at a far distance.
We subscribed to Disney plus when this started and I’ve been having fun showing the 6- and 7-year-olds movies that I loved as a kid during the toddler’s naptimes. So far we’ve done both the 60s and 90s versions of Parent Trap, Pollyanna, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids. This afternoon we’re watching Cool Runnings.
Tonight after kids are in bed I’m doing a zoom with a few friends. No plans tomorrow.
sdlaura, I subscribed to Boomerang when this all started. DD has been watching "The Jetsons" "Flintstones", and "Scooby Doo" and really enjoying all of them. She had the Jetsons on in the office and my dad stopped what he was doing and pulled up a chair to watch with and was like I remember watching this as a kid. I keep going back and forth on if Disney Plus would be an added bonus or not DD isn't a huge fan of most Disney stuff and the stuff she does like we have on DVD.
In person school got cancelled for the rest of the year yesterday. 2/3 of my kids are super thrilled by it, the other is a mix of tween emotions about it.
I read an article about how this all is actually really good for kids because they aren’t being scheduled to death and are actually getting time to be kids and learn to fail and succeed on their own and also that they do have the ability to do things without constant adult direction. I don’t disagree. nypost.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-is-providing-the-course-correction-kids-desperately-needed/
Weekend is basically like the week except no remote learning (and also no homework, woo hoo). I took the dog for a 6 mile walk today and made homemade pizza. Oh and I ordered myself some new tennis shoes because my shoes have holes in the bottoms and that 6 miles killed my feet! And some new jeans because they were on clearance and 2 pairs of my jeans got giant holes in the crotch in the past month. And I got myself a StitchFix as a gift for getting my work bonus. Shopping made me feel a tiny bit better about alllllllll of the crap.
Tomorrow is probably another long walk and cleaning up the front yard for spring. And laundry.
I have no idea what day it is anymore. I did a lot more work this week since DH was off for “spring break.” I wanted to take advantage of it before we start elearning up again. 2 weeks down, 7 weeks to go. But that kind of makes me work evenings and weekends and just whenever I get to it.
I was doing good walking on the treadmill but DH has derailed that today with lots of junk food. We watched Bumblebee last night, and it’s cute. We’ve been watching Full House. Just doing whatever I guess, going for drives, doing laundry etc.
I stayed in bed until 10. Worked out. Took a long bath. Made a mask.. it was much easier than I expected. Take one was a terrible fit - I tried using bias tape to tie the mask on. Regrouped and uses bias tape to attach hair bands, and it is totally suitable. DD has requested I make one for her and her brother... thankfully when I opened up my fabric bin, I remembered that a friend had been giving away fat quarters that I didn’t remember getting. They’re all very awful prints... aka a kids dream.
Somehow this afternoon I decided I should sort all our kids clothes that I’ve ignored and stacked in random places for years. I need to get rid of all the girls clothes since this baby is another boy. My whole body hurts. I have no idea how we ended up with so many kids clothes.
I took care of a couple of errands this morning and did laundry, cleaned house, and did work today while dh and ds did soccer practice and built our new grill. I also talked to my mom and sister and my dad on phone calls since I usually only call during my commute which hasn’t happened for three weeks.
We ended the evening with Thai take out and renting Onward (the new Pixar movie) at home. It’s a great movie about two brothers on a quest.
I made a lot of masks (around 20) for my friend. They were easy. The kids went to MIL’s and DH went on a quest for paper towels. That man loves his paper towels. While he was gone, I managed to get on subscribe and save for his paper towels, and he was so happy he replied with an x-rated message, which made me laugh. We got takeout for dinner and then watched Onward on Disney Plus. MIL joined us for the movie, which was fun.
My staff are taking shifts covering weekends. Which means I am on call on weekends. I worked a couple of hours Saturday helping them work through some issues. Plus I made this one company with a large outbreak of Covid my mission. They are out of our district, so it's a challenge to keep up, and I haven't gotten a response from their health department yet.
My aunt who works at a nursery dropped off my ferns and flowers Friday night. So when I wasn't working, Dd and I planted flowers.
Dd had used the time off to relearn her back handspring on the trampoline and has moved to the mat. Impressive.
Dh and I were worried that Ds was holed up in the basement all day. Well, a large group of classmates have gotten together and are having a Minecraft battle and he had to have his world ready. There are worse things a teenager could be doing. Creative way to keep in touch with friends.
Post by covergirl82 on Apr 5, 2020 10:36:05 GMT -5
Yesterday (Saturday) the weather was cold and rainy, so it was kind of a lazy day. Today it's sunny and warm, so we're going to go outside this afternoon and clean up the yard a bit. I'll probably vacuum and Armor All the inside of my car. I'm also going to go for a walk outside.
I ran away to the office this morning. I just couldn't handle dealing with DH or DD or the dog. I left before DH was up. DD was reading and I told her to deal with the dog and left. Last night as soon as I walked in the door everyone needed me and all I needed was 20 minutes of quiet time. DH was the worse out of the 3. I broke the new to DD that we probably wouldn't be starting gymnastics up anytime soon. She keeps saying she wants to work on the skills she is struggling with only at the gym so I had to break the news. This resulted in lots of crying and defiant behavior. The gym can't even do online group conditioning as the park district laid of the entire gym staff and they were told to not communicate with us. Head coach is using the team reach app but it is more about posting pictures about what the girls are doing and that she misses them.
Well, I'm going to kill my relatives. Just did a Zoom call with my family to celebrate my mom's birthday. My folks had 2 sets of neighbors over. And my sister went to go visit. They were outside and "six feet apart" which I don't buy for a minute given what I saw during the call. And my aunt had 2 neighbors over too, and not even trying to stay far apart. How do they not get it?!?! That whole call stressed me out and cemented the entire "boomers" stereotype going around right now. My brother and I are trying to figure out how to start tag teaming lectures.
My parents have decided to fly home (from San Diego to Maryland) on Saturday. I think they’re insane.
I think I may have convinced them not to go. It would be one thing if they were just going home for good, but they plan to come back here in late May for when we have the new baby. I just don’t understand why they would risk their health flying cross country twice in the next 7 weeks just because they miss their house. I don’t think anyone is flying right now except for emergencies.
Unless things change quite a bit between now and early June, them not being here would probably mean I would have to have the baby alone. Schools are closed for the rest of the year and all our friends are self isolating, so DH would have to stay with the kids when I go into labor.