{"id":27693,"date":"2020-04-19T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=27693"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T01:33:51","slug":"thoughts-from-a-sheltering-at-home-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=27693","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from a sheltering-at-home mom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intend<\/em> to stop blogging. We went to Mexico for a family trip in late Jan. just before my last post, and when I got back things at work got incredibly busy. I kept planning to post an update \u00e2\u20ac\u201c obviously there were things to share, including our vacation photos – and then: COVID-19 hit. For about seven weeks I found myself working at a pace I didn’t think was humanly possible; I worked long hours seven days a week and didn’t have the physical or emotional energy to do much other than focus on the pandemic. And so, here we are\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bay Area has been sheltering in place for just over a month now, and aside from last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spring break the girls have been doing distance learning since then as well. (There was a bit of an adjustment period to the new school format, especially for Avery, but now things are going pretty well.) My work is still bananas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say that working for a health care institution during a global pandemic has been quite the experience \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more manageable than it has been. And Q\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keeping busy with his work, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You read a lot about people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feelings of anxiety and isolation over what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening, and I know that having smaller kids during this time is particularly challenging. But I can honestly say that things here aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that bad: The four of us have fallen into a nice staying-at-home rhythm. No fights, no major issues. The girls have been keeping themselves entertained and have gone entire days without getting dressed (which they love) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy to avoid a commute that was starting to stretch to over an hour. Of course, the most important thing is that none of us or our loved ones have gotten sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s been a silver lining to being stuck at home, and it’s the extra family time that we all now have. We’re simply almost always together. We eat as a family more than ever before (Zoe cooks dinner several times a week), we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re playing tons of games (charades is our new fave), and we recently finished a major<\/em> movie marathon (22 Marvel movies, concluding with last year’s excellent “Avengers: Endgame”). The pace of our new life, when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not working, is just slower and sweeter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I don’t hate it. In fact, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to do what I can to keep it going well after we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re through this thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intend to stop blogging. We went to Mexico for a family trip in late Jan. just before my last post, and when I got back things at work got incredibly busy. I kept planning to post an update \u00e2\u20ac\u201c obviously there were things to share, including our vacation photos – and then: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101-two-kids-jan-dec-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27698,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27693\/revisions\/27698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}