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[quote=Anonymous]1) The push-pull of pandemic parenting an under 5 child sucks. I took my kid to school this morning for the first time in almost a month and one the one hand was thrilled for her (and me) that she got to go back, and on the other hand spent the entire morning wondering if I'm doing the right thing and worrying about whether her mask is good enough, and scared she'll catch Covid and wind up back at home with us anyway, only with a virus we've successfully avoided for 2 full years. It sucks. There are no good choices.

2) So tired of my house and having everyone in it all the time. I just need to be somewhere else for a while. We've done little vacations around the region but nothing that feels like a real getaway since 2019. My brain just needs an escape. It's a combination of Covid and this stage of parenting. When you put them together, it's hard not to feel trapped. I feel like all I do is work and clean and make sure my child is fed/clothed/exercised. And feed the cat. I've been trying to read more, to give myself time to work on crafts or just do anything that doesn't feel like a chore and it's so hard. I feel like I'm very deep in a rut with few options for steering out of it.

3) To echo OP, there is something about facing year 3 of canceling or curtailing birthday/anniversary plans. I'm not a birthday party person so not cancelling a party or anything. But we had started to talk about being able to just do something normal for my birthday in March this year, like get a sitter, go out to dinner, and catch a show. And I guess maybe that's still possible. We're vaccinated and boosted. But Omicron has made it feel less likely or wrong somehow. It was something I'd started to look forward to, and people need to be able to look forward to things! It sucks never having something on the horizon to be genuinely excited about. There's a damper on everything.

I know some of this is time of year, made worse by the weather this last week. But there's also this foreboding that even when spring comes, nothing changes. That's the hard part -- that sense of zero progress, zero horizon, zero movement. And I think I get more of that than the average person because as a parent of a small person, certain things in your life are always moving forward and progressing as your kid grows up! But when everything else around her feels stagnant and crappy, that feels scary instead of exciting. I want more for her. And for me.[/quote]

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