My kids are a mess, a messy mess and I have probably snapped more in the last 2 weeks than through the rest of my now 8+ yrs of motherhood. I just squished an ant (?) that was crawling over my less-than-hygienic desk.

But seriously, my wacko of a 6-yr-old is like the best anti-anxiety drug on the market. I just ask him to "floss" or tell me about his latest (surreal) ninja dream--and all is right in the world.

It all nets out.

Anonymous wrote:My in-laws are doing zoom book club, gardening and painting. They call us buzzed from day-drinking wine, every other evening. Living their best Covid-life.

Love this

sleeping so much instead of dealing with postpartum/breastfeeding related insomnia.

Planting a vegetable garden in the backyard.

Cooking awesome meals

Deep cleaning and decorating our house.

Reading books and watching movies.

Basically, living the life.

Anonymous wrote:The people I know who don't have kids are feeling very isolated and lonely.

Ha! Keep telling yourself that. My friend and I (both childfree) were FaceTiming just yesterday, talking about how relieved we were not to have kids during this time.

I'd get a heck of a lot more work done. Three year old+WFH=major suckage.

Reading more, watching more TV, sleeping more, lots more catch-up video and phone calls with old friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Lolz, sorry OP. I've got one 4 year old and we did puzzles together, then I had a glass of wine and went to bed early. She baked bread and oatmeal cookies with DH yesterday. The only child life is pretty sweet these days!

You must not need to work. This should be the "if you don't have kids and don't have to work from home" thread.

Nope, working full time and volunteering for our neighborhood mutual aid effort. Luckily both DH and I have flexible jobs and can work around each other's schedules. Baked bread over lunch, puzzles after work hours while we made dinner, then cookies after dinner. I wish this wasn't happening and worry about DH's job security, but life at the moment is pretty peaceful in our house.

Yeah, I don’t think you are the target audience for this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Lolz, sorry OP. I've got one 4 year old and we did puzzles together, then I had a glass of wine and went to bed early. She baked bread and oatmeal cookies with DH yesterday. The only child life is pretty sweet these days!

You must not need to work. This should be the "if you don't have kids and don't have to work from home" thread.

Nope, working full time and volunteering for our neighborhood mutual aid effort. Luckily both DH and I have flexible jobs and can work around each other's schedules. Baked bread over lunch, puzzles after work hours while we made dinner, then cookies after dinner. I wish this wasn't happening and worry about DH's job security, but life at the moment is pretty peaceful in our house.

My child free by choice best friend is practicing lots of yoga, reorganizing her closet, taking long walks with her dog, and baking a lot. We try to do a virtual happy hour together once a week to catch up.

I would go for lunchtime runs and have a pristine house. As it is, with a 3 year old and a 1.5 year old running around, I have to wake up at 5 AM in order to get a run in, and I am sweeping and vacuuming the floor 2-3 times a day just to keep it tolerable.

My coworkers without kids are working out 2X a day, working a ton of hours, and waxing poetically about learning a new language, online class etc.

I’d be like PP - clean house, lots of walks, and binge on every junky Netflix show I could find..

Anonymous wrote:Lolz, sorry OP. I've got one 4 year old and we did puzzles together, then I had a glass of wine and went to bed early. She baked bread and oatmeal cookies with DH yesterday. The only child life is pretty sweet these days!

You must not need to work. This should be the "if you don't have kids and don't have to work from home" thread.

I think I would go work in a hospital. I think I could be useful somehow. I am terrified of leaving my kids without parents and of giving it to my child who was born premature.

Long runs not pushing a stroller.

My in-laws are doing zoom book club, gardening and painting. They call us buzzed from day-drinking wine, every other evening. Living their best Covid-life.

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Anonymous wrote:The people I know who don't have kids are feeling very isolated and lonely.

+1

I am actually glad I have little kids because jt forces me to pretend this is normal and not focus on worry/news.

Isolated and lonely? Get on zoom or house party. And get some perspective. There are jobless people, sick people and miserable people with small children who are about to lose their jobs.

My parents and inlaws are having a great time. Repainting their house, refinishing furniture and watching tons of netflix.