What do you have to look forward to?

[Anonymous]

We're booking one overnight per month in an Airbnb within an hour or two. Getting takeout and eating ice cream in a different house.

We're staying in places that haven't been occupied for the day before, and don't require any in-person interaction with the owner.

Honestly, just planning what new restaurant we're going to get food from and where we're going to walk outside in the new town/city have been big mood boosters for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Literally nothing, if it wasn’t for my kids, I would have in all likelihood ended my life by now.

I don't know if you are serious, but I feel exactly the same way. No joy, nothing to look forward to. I'm mourning the experiences that my kids are losing and consumed with worry about their futures. I love having more time with them at home, but I also recognize that they need experiences away from me. If I hear one more person say school is not childcare I might actually need to be hospitalized. Not every kid has a huge social network outside of school. As a society, we are so divided. I feel numb, disconnected, and empty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Literally nothing, if it wasn’t for my kids, I would have in all likelihood ended my life by now.

I don't know if you are serious, but I feel exactly the same way. No joy, nothing to look forward to. I'm mourning the experiences that my kids are losing and consumed with worry about their futures. I love having more time with them at home, but I also recognize that they need experiences away from me. If I hear one more person say school is not childcare I might actually need to be hospitalized. Not every kid has a huge social network outside of school. As a society, we are so divided. I feel numb, disconnected, and empty.

Yes I’m serious. Honestly it’s not even love for my kids keeping me going, more like the recognition that having a traumatically dead parent would be bad for them in their future, plus honestly my husband doesn’t come from a long-lived line of people (his grandparents all died in their 60s and 70s, although his parents both just turned 70 and are still alive) and I don’t want them to be fully alone as young adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Literally nothing, if it wasn’t for my kids, I would have in all likelihood ended my life by now.

I don't know if you are serious, but I feel exactly the same way. No joy, nothing to look forward to. I'm mourning the experiences that my kids are losing and consumed with worry about their futures. I love having more time with them at home, but I also recognize that they need experiences away from me. If I hear one more person say school is not childcare I might actually need to be hospitalized. Not every kid has a huge social network outside of school. As a society, we are so divided. I feel numb, disconnected, and empty.

Yes I’m serious. Honestly it’s not even love for my kids keeping me going, more like the recognition that having a traumatically dead parent would be bad for them in their future, plus honestly my husband doesn’t come from a long-lived line of people (his grandparents all died in their 60s and 70s, although his parents both just turned 70 and are still alive) and I don’t want them to be fully alone as young adults.

I'm the PP, and that is exactly how I feel too. Are you kids younger, tweens, or teens?

[Anonymous]

Nightly massages from DH before bed
A Christmas baby
Winter
Seeing my dad and my friends back home
Canucks game tonight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hugging each of my friends for a long time once this is over.

+1. God, yes! And their children!!

[Anonymous]

The end of a stressful project in the next few days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beyond that, I was sorely tempted to escape to my home country for the year, telework and distance learning and all, but the logistics are complicated, so, it's not happening.

My kid is angling for another pet... I might cave.

[Anonymous]

Cool weather and kids back in school (PLEASE!!)

[Anonymous]

We are temporarily escaping to a country with no COVID. Just have to survive the two-week quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Going to Maine in a week
Kids starting school
Trump getting his ass kicked!!!

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Dinner out for anniversary
Sex tomorrow
Camping trip coming up
Possible trip back to my ILSs beach house to telecommute
More pool time
And eventually, fall!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Literally nothing, if it wasn’t for my kids, I would have in all likelihood ended my life by now.

I feel the same way.

[Anonymous]

I’m looking forward to my kids being old enough to be left home alone unsupervised so I can leave my effing house to go for a walk or run whenever I feel like it. My husband is never home and I feel like I’m in prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are all worn down by the pandemic and the Trump circus. Hopefully, there will be a vaccine and a new administration in early 2021. That’s what I look forward to.

+1. The return of leadership and sanity. Biden’s inauguration is something to look forward to.