First entry background info:
I’m stuck!
I’m bored!
I’m trying to keep it together for my kids and my husband!
I’m so very lonely!
Yesterday the Governor in my state decided to extend our stay-at-home order until May 24th. I cried. A lot. And then drank. A lot. Today I’m pulling up my big-girl panties (that are frankly getting a little small at this point with all the laying around and eating) and I’m dealing with it in a healthier manner.
I’ve been off of work since the beginning of March. I work for a non-profit thrift store and thankfully they have had the resources, so far, to keep on all of its employees with pay even though the store has to be closed. I really enjoy my job and the people I get to work with but with this extended order I highly doubt they will be able to continue to pay everyone. Which could mean lay-offs or furloughs. That’s scary. I’m just doing a wait and see at the moment until I hear from my boss about the plans for the next month but I have been taking some time to search on-line for a new job just in case mine ends up in jeopardy.
My kids are pretty bummed that the extended order means that schools are officially closed for the year. They miss their friends and their teachers especially since they have to spend the day with me now. Homeschooling sucks but it could be much worse. My kids can get through most of their work on their own and their teachers are really amazing with how quickly they came up with at-home plans. They are constantly checking in with the kids and making sure they aren’t having any problems. My problem as their new teacher is keeping them on-task. My middle school son was struggling before all of this to complete his homework. He’s a procrastinator. He’d much rather be playing on his ps4 or watching YouTube than busy work. He’ll sit and pretend to do it while he’s really doing other things. Since everything is on his Chromebook now the temptation to click over to a more fun website or game is right at his fingertips. It’s frustrating to try to keep him on track and I feel like I have to nag him into getting back to work way too often.
My daughter has her own struggles. Her attention span isn’t great. She flits though assignments. Some she finishes, some she forgets to do and some she forgets to turn in. I’ve had to come up with a schedule and checklist for her that she has to do in order. No skipping around. Only moving on to the next if the previous is fully finished and turned in. So far this is helping…I think. She’s moving to the middle school next year and I’m hoping we can teach her better organization and time management skills before then because middle school is so much more independent and hard balancing schoolwork with the social aspect of it all.
I’ve been trying to accomplish one thing around the house every day so that I’m not a complete lazy ass. Within the first 2 weeks I cleaned the house, the closets, the basement, and the shed. I finished building the raised garden boxes on my side porch that were sitting half finished since last year. I started digging out and hopefully rebuilding our firepit but it’s been snowing the last couple of days so that’s been waylaid along with mowing the glass like I had planned. I’m running out of projects that I want to do. There are a few that I’m dreading like organizing the Tupperware cabinet but I think that project might throw me over the edge of sanity.
I could keep writing today but I think I’ll save some things to rant about for tomorrow.
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