Well - what a crazy time we are all living through right now.
I am working at home - my workplace is entirely closed down and I had one day's notice to clear what I needed from my office and move over to remote working. My employer has provided equipment and online training on new systems so it's better for me than a lot of people, but it's been stressful - especially as I now have two kids at home with me and am also trying to home ed them.
Eldest is very wobbly: missing his friends, worried about the disruption to his schooling, worried about sports trips planned that he will miss out on, annoyed that I can't be constantly available to him. I hope he will settle in a few days once he starts to make online contact with his peer group and get used to the online classroom stuff his school has set up.
Youngest I think is taking less of it in - we try not to have the news on too much when she's around - but is being more clingy and waking up early in the morning. I am trying to just keep her in a good routine and not over-react to the small stuff. With all of us in the house, it is going to be hard and we will have bad days and I may as well just accept this before we start.
H, as I think I said before, works in medicine. He's been called in for extra shifts and also put on call. He's already stressed and anxious and exhausted. But you know - he is doing well. I can see him trying to take care of me and the kids in his 'acts of service' way as well as trying to be more emotionally available. He's been more respectful of the fact that if it is down to me to work at home and home educate the kids, then he's going to have to let me devise a way to do that and sort out their routines etc, and he can't be critical of me all the time when he's hardly in the house. And I've been working to make sure he has the space he needs. Things are only going to get worse for him at work personally and the whole world, but so far, we are doing okay.
