Pandemic. COVID-19. Social distancing. Aerosols. Face masks to protect us from other people’s germs. Face masks to keep our germs to ourselves. Gloves. Frequent hand washing. Hand sanitizer.Businesses closing. Work hours cut. Jobs lost.No school. No playdates. No friends. No sports. No birthday parties. No...
Pandemic. COVID-19. Social distancing. Aerosols. Face masks to protect us from other people’s germs. Face masks to keep our germs to ourselves. Gloves. Frequent hand washing. Hand sanitizer.Businesses closing. Work hours cut. Jobs lost.No school. No playdates. No friends. No sports. No birthday parties. No...
A Happy Meal almost got me killed the other day.I was pulling out of a McDonalds drive-thru having procured Happy Meals as the bribe, I mean reward, for my kids completion of their daily e-learning assignments, when I almost got broadsided by a...
Quarantine fatigue has set in big time at our house.Tempers are short and quick. Hair is long and unruly. The breakfast room a one-room schoolhouse run by an unqualified teacher whose stock response to any question is “Google it.”And the kids never leave...
How many times a day should you check your email?No clue. But on Monday I will be checking it like an addict.Why? 2 words–summer camp.My girls (and there are 4 of them, by the way) spend 1 week every summer at sleep-away camp....
I’ve always been a play by the rules kind of gal.No speeding tickets since the ’90s. Truthful about my age (45 years young). Wait for everyone at the table to get their food before I start eating.And then COVID-19 and the stay-at-home orders...
It took a global pandemic to get me to budge on our house electronics rules.My 9th grader? She’s been pleading her case for social media access for months. Friends who aren’t allowed to roam the mall sans parents, but can post selfies on...
Remember the classic 80s arcade game Frogger, where you had to direct frogs to their homes one by one by crossing a busy street?That’s what my morning run has turned into, a freaking game of Frogger.Thanks to the rules of social distancing, which...
After 10 or so years of working alone at home, I finally have co-workers.5 to be precise.Thanks to the COVID-19 social distancing mandates, my 4 girls will be finishing out the school year at home. Their classrooms have been traded for our breakfast...
“Is that how I really look?”I bet that sentiment was rattling around many people’s minds this past week.Thanks to COVID-19 social distancing mandates, thousands, if not millions, of people are working from home, forced to use video conferencing to keep in touch with...
All that is separating me from 4 squabbling sisters is a reinforced door.My girls are home thanks to the closure of their schools in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.For the foreseeable future, I will be both their mom and (gulp) teacher, all...
We’ve crossed a line when security guards are protecting toilet paper. That’s the situation at my local Costco. Security guards standing watch at the toilet paper in case there’s a riot over the “2 per customer” limit placed on it. At 30 rolls...
Two months.That’s how long my family had to sort through my late mother-in-law’s house and possessions before it was sold.Two lifetimes.That’s how much stuff was in the house, hers and my late father-in-law’s.Going through every room, every drawer, every closet in their 3,000...
