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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 15: I’m torn. I adore babies in the first year. Also babies in the first year are absolutely hell on the nerves and the sleep. So torn. Last night was...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 22: The good thing about today was PiC was free of any meetings and I was able to give him the morning to work kid-free. The bad thing was it felt like...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 29: Is it just me or does every Monday feel like three days crammed into one? I know this isn’t the first time I’ve had this thought. I wonder what we can...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 36: WordPress is threatening to take away Classic editor in the app “soon” and that makes me mad. I don’t have time or brain to waste on figuring out the...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 43: Today was my relative’s funeral. I took most of the day to attend services virtually and just be. After the services were over, I took all the kids out...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 50: After three extra terrible nights in a row, my anxiety had been steadily ramping up so that I was wound tight anticipating a fourth bad night and bad...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 57: I’m thinking about how people are here for a minute, in the grand scheme of the universe, and how I hope to matter in the lives of the people who know...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 64: I had an imperfect weekend. I didn’t check off half the things I needed done, I didn’t get nearly enough rest or food or water. But we did get five and...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 71: I overheard kindergarten students talking about their experiences at Disneyland and other amusement parks with frequent flier style attitudes. They...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 78: Every single time I think we have a grip on our schedule for the summer …. nope! Something big shifts or changes. So now I’m back to the drawing board....
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 85: Alice recommended a math app, Math Tango, but when I went on the hunt for it, I realized that w are totally outclassed. My iPad can only be updated to...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 92: Some mornings, you have your shit together. Some mornings, you don’t even notice that you and the kids are still in your pajamas when lessons start....
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 99: Smol slept through the night! But chose to end the night at 5 am. Win some, lose some. I didn’t get to sleep until midnight because of my leg pain, PiC...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 106: An unexpected boon of Smol’s early morning wakings is that if I can get up too, PiC and I have time to talk for a few minutes like adult humans with...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 113: Well, I forgot today was Monday 16 times even though I put in about 6 hours of work today. Holiday weekends always throw me for a loop. We had a...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 120: PiC graciously took the 6 am wake up period with Smol, so I took the 8:30 am-12 pm shift with the kids. JB had tutoring for a big block of that time so...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 127: At first, I thought this was a GET THEE OUT OF THE KITCHEN kind of day. I boiled 6 eggs to make deviled eggs. They were all boiled the same amount of...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 134: I woke myself up shouting at a neighbor for dismissing her kid’s attempt to murder my baby as “that’s just what kids do” and that really set the tone...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 141: What a day. We had all kinds of cleaning up to do. PiC and JB worked on three loads of laundry, I worked on reconciling a bunch of bills, filing a tax...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 148: Each Monday seems to take the preceding Monday as a challenge of one-upsmanship. I was juggling time zones, time critical problems with our systems,...
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