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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am totally traumatized. We also started on the special needs train with our youngest that has been disaster after disaster. My family of origin kind of fell apart. I am so bitter about how hard it is to be a working mom of little kids. I hate and resent my husband for a million reasons. I think he hates me too. I feel like I am a robot version of the person who got a promotion in January 2020 with a 1 and 3 year old.  [/quote]

OP here. I can relate! I got an amazing job offer in November 2019 and started right after Christmas. I'd been been doing ad hoc consulting before that (since having a baby) so it was the reboot of my career and I was thrilled. DC was doing great in full-time daycare, I was getting the hang of my job. Then March 2020 happened, daycare closed (never reopened) and nothing has been the same since. My job was relatively understanding but I was so new. Just all the hope I'd had for the future slowly leeched out of me and now I feel like I often just go through the motions at home and at work. Yesterday I had my kid cook dinner with me and we had a great time and it resulted in trying some new foods they'd been resistant to, and it was great but I also realized that I used to do stuff like that all the time pre-Covid, and now I rarely do. I don't have the energy. I'm just trying to get to the end of the day so I can go to sleep. It sucks.[/quote]

It sounds like you had some of the toughest ages for Covid in my opinion, OP.  My oldest is a bit younger — she was supposed to be starting daycare in April of 2020 and obviously that didn’t happen.  But it also means my Covid isolation was a weird extension of my maternity leave isolation and all my Covid feelings are tied up in transitioning to parenting which I feel like makes it way easier to move on from (also: non mobile 4 month olds are so much easier to WFH with than crawlers and toddlers!).  But I too hate when I’m so tired from work I find myself looking forward to my kids being in bed.  They’re the joy of my life but also so tiring.  You’re right, it does suck.[/quote]

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