Hey, did you hear the joke about the mom whose kids were ordered to stay home from school until further notice? or better yet school is closed for the remainder of the school year?
You know my parent friends and I talk so much shit about our kids..about the amount of times they say MOM, or all the snacks they ask for, dreading home schooling, the messes they make, hearing the same stories over and over again, oh and the look at me statements, the amount of gas that escapes their little bodies, their little tothole or teen jerk attitudes but most importantly we dread the idea of having them once again returned to our care on a 24/7 basis. Like the shear idea of not being able to have our child out on loan for a 6-8 hour period weekly is down right depressing. Is this mandatory? What do we do with them we ask ourselves while looking at them through the screen door? sending their teachers emails asking how we should properly care for them…do they require sunlight and water? Do we talk to them or play classical music? The real question being how do we care for the beings that we have grown to enjoy much more when they are out of the house for hours at a time on a consistent basis.
We did not spend quality time when they were little only to have the school stamp return to sender and drop them in our house…am I right?! no?? just me???
Am I the only one who desperately wants to leave munchkin land??
As much as we gripe, joke and otherwise think of a million torturous things we would consider better than being locked in a house with our children for over 4 weeks straight…there is no place we would rather them be than home safe in our care. We love our children and our first instinct is to protect them. For many of us before schools shutdown we were thinking “hmm maybe it’s best we keep the kids home today.” We are fighting a silent but deadly virus that doesn’t care about age, race, socioeconomic standing, whether you eat meat, veggies or ketchup packets, whether you garden, whether you work outside of the home or inside, whether you can scratch your ass, rub your belly and pat your head at the same time it’s moving swiftly and undetected. A tiny microscopic virus has us cowering in our homes convincing ourselves and our children that everything is okay. But is it? SURE IT IS, if you consider where we are and what we have access to. We know that at any given time if one of us should contract the virus we have access to the best medical care, we know we have a loving and supportive circle of framily and above all else we have faith in God.
So while many of us are maybe sipping more wine than we usually do and our voices are hoarse from yelling– oh add in that it feels like our days are getting lost but we are also filled with so much joy. Our love cups overflow knowing that we are able to spend the most wonderful quality time with our little humans. And while this will be their “20 mile walk to school in waist deep snow with only a jacket and no shoes ” tale when they are older, they will have fond memories of the time that was gifted to us under the most unfortunate circumstances that we made the best of.
Hope you are all staying safe and enjoying the opportunity to teach your children- nurturing their minds, bodies and spirits.
Rickettedly Awesome 