Twerks 3/26

[waverly]

Not much new here. We are all over our colds so that is good considering that even though it was all in the nose, we still asked ourselves is this covid twice a day.

Trying to stay away from the news except maybe once a day.

[polecat8]

My online class went well last night. Students still participated by chat or speaking. The same group of students still hid in the back.

DD and DS1 have been doing online learning via their school 2 days/week the past two weeks. Starting next Thursday, they will move to online learning every day until we go back on April 14th (hopefully). DD has a school issued chromebook. DS1 does not and is in K, so I'm not sure how it work for him yet.

[sdlaura]

We're doing better this week than last week. We have a loose routine in place for who is responsible for the kids and when each day, and DH is being a little bit more helpful and positive than normal. We still collapse on the couch exhausted every night at 8 pm when we get the kids in bed. Tomorrow was supposed to be the older kids' last day of school before our 2-week spring break. There won't be any school activities pushed out during spring break, so at least I can stop feeling guilty for now that we're doing zero homeschooling that the kids don't get motivated to do on their own on their iPads.

I spoke with another midwife about a homebirth this morning - still $5k out of pocket, even though they'd really have to provide zero prenatal care since I'm so far along already. Still waiting to hear back from one more.

My firm's 70-something founder has been doing check-in calls with groups of 5 employees at a time, and mine was this morning. Let's just say the guy is not optimistic that this situation will improve anytime soon. He predicts great depression-level unemployment and that we'll be video chatting in late summer with him still in need of a haircut because everything is still closed.

[traveltheworld]

Hanging in there. Getting a little cabin-fever-ish. Also really not enjoying having DH unemployed and at home, mostly because I feel bad for him, then I feel like I need to take care of his emotional needs. Being unemployed while this is all happening is hard. If it wasn't for COVID-19, at least he'd have the opportunities to take the kids to activities, volunteer, etc. and have a few more human interaction.

The kids are still doing pretty good, so that's the only bright spot.

[sdlaura]

DS2's daycare provider decided that she'd like to watch our kids at our house a couple mornings a week to start, and then maybe ramp up to more in the future, depending on how long we're in this situation. She has also been self-isolating and not even seeing their grandkids, and having all groceries delivered. We've known her and her husband for over two years now and I didn't realize her husband has had bypass surgery, so that's why she'd rather do it at our house. That's not ideal because I feel like the kids are going nuts in our house and they might not be as well-behaved, but nothing is really ideal at this point anyway For now, this arrangement will give my parents a bit of a break and hopefully set the stage for us to still have help whenever my parents are able to go home, so fingers crossed that it works out - she only really knows DS2 well, and DS1 is our more challenging child, so hopefully she doesn't decide he's too difficult for her

[twinmomma]

A guy at the office suggested I start a virtual support group for all the moms who are struggling to balance work and kids and school. He sees that as a big need for us because moms are bearing the brunt of the workload and all of us are having a hard time managing everything.
I know it came from a good place but... seriously dude? The logical choice for who should take on that project is the single mom of two barely holding her own shit together? Moms are struggling, so the answer is give a mom another project? Why not start a group that forces the dads to step it up?

[campermom]

Mar 27, 2020 6:19:19 GMT -5 twinmomma said:

A guy at the office suggested I start a virtual support group for all the moms who are struggling to balance work and kids and school. He sees that as a big need for us because moms are bearing the brunt of the workload and all of us are having a hard time managing everything.
I know it came from a good place but... seriously dude? The logical choice for who should take on that project is the single mom of two barely holding her own shit together? Moms are struggling, so the answer is give a mom another project? Why not start a group that forces the dads to step it up?

Omg please say this to him! Finally a man acknowledges the imbalance. So step up and tell your bro’s to contribute more!

[twinmomma]

campermom, I did. I let him know I'd work on finding someone to help with the mom group but encouraged him to start a dad group that encourages them all to step it up more.

[sdlaura]

twinmomma one of my female coworkers started a virtual group like that at my firm. Luckily it’s branded as being for parents, not just moms. I haven’t even had time to look at it.

[mae0111]

Today's math lesson is... monopoly. I'm not even playing. Have fun kids!

[covergirl82]

We're probably crazy, but we decided to get a puppy. I think being home so much has reminded us how much we miss our doggo, who we had to say goodbye to in January. DH called our vet, who also breeds German Shepherds, who we got our last dog from. She said she would move us up the list for a puppy from the litter that was just born, because she knows us and knows how much we loved and cared for our dog. The kids were over the moon when we told them. We'll get our puppy mid-May, and the kids will have all summer to play with and do basic training with the puppy.

[rere]

I am glad I live rural right now. The kids have rediscovered all of the 4wheeler trails behind the house. The are pretty wide trails without a lot of hills, so they can putter around back there. That brightened up DDs day, because she has hardly left the house at all except for walks. They also have a couple of lakes to fish. Trying to pull out any tricks to keep them occupied.

DH needs to quit watching the news. He is super stressed over the entire thing. I am about to put him on payroll since he probably knows as much as we do. He is stressed because his business is essential so he has to go in and is afraid to get sick. We waffle back and forth that we both have work and are grateful, to worry about being exposed.

[186momx]

DD is breaking all the rules right now. They were told they weren't allowed to contact their teachers over the 2 week spring break. Well DD has emailed the principle with questions and didn't like the answers she got. She has been dojo messaging not only her teacher off and on but her old 1st grade teacher. Yesterday she zoomed chatted with the 1st grade teacher and taught her all sorts of tips and tricks on zoom it was the cutest hour of my day yesterday. She also is emailing her teacher and calling it writing time.

DH isn't taking any of this seriously and is driving both DD and me crazy. We closed early last night and DH was like why are you home and then do you want to just go out and wander Wal-Mart to get out and about. No No No rere, maybe I should suggest he load his ATV up and drive up into the hills to ride the logging roads just so he can go do something. He isn't a homebody at all.

[polecat8]

Yesterday was so beautiful here so the kids played in the backyard for most of the afternoon. Then we took a family walk around the neighborhood. We stopped at the playground for a bit since it was deserted and probably hadn't been played on in a long time. It was so nice to have the windows open.

The rain started last night and it is a gloomy day today. The kids woke up screaming and fighting with each other. So I told DH to put them in the van and go for a drive so I could get some work done in peace. He stopped at the Starbucks drive thru and brought me a drink.
Right now the kids are quiet. It's been a long week so I'm hoping I can convince them to do a movie night. We might even have some frozen cookie dough to bake for the movie.

[mommyatty]

186momx, DH’s aunt has a daughter with a brain injury who is acting this was. So is the daughter’s husband. She to,d them they aren’t allowed at her house anymore until all this is over. I’d tell your H the same: if you don’t want to distance and follow the law, you need to find another place to shelter. You can live in the garage. You can find a homeless shelter. But you will not enter this house until you can get your shit together. Period.