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s-leary replied to your post “documenting our weird times”
We also ran out of cope today, after the 17th iteration of the same argument. ❤️
I just had to separate the kids, and then forcibly send their mother to the basement to work out like she’d been saying she’d go do for 25 minutes and then was like “oh no the children are making noises I Cannot Leave Them Unattended” and I was like Christ almighty, I am going to sit in the room with them and pay them the attention they want while they take their “recess”, which is a thing that won’t particularly annoy me but will devastate you because it will derail your plans for today and you are a person who invests heavily in following a plan and you are still not recovered from not being able to follow yesterday’s plan so please, for the love of God, go follow your plan for the day and I will sit here and say “yes dear” “mmhmm sweetie” “yes I see it” “no get down from there” “oh you hit pause by accident, try the other remote” “mm does that go in your mouth? didn’t think so” “listen kid we don’t throw things AT people and yes TOWARDS effectively means the same thing as AT so cut it out or that Pokeball becomes mine permanently” while staring at the Internet, which is basically all I had wanted to spend this hour doing anyway.
I can’t be in charge of the lesson plans, but by God, I can just absent-mindedly supervise like a champ.
(She’s out of Cope and is Projecting that onto the children who are not particularly high on Cope but are mostly upset that their mother can’t Cope and honestly it’s a Lot, and I’m going to make an embroidered sampler that just says It’s Been A Lot, For A While Now, because that’s basically how we punctuate every sentence.)
(She also admitted to almost crying at the “WE MISS YOU” banner, but managed not to because she was actually attending the children at the time and they’d have noticed.)
Ha and their dad’s home today too, ostensibly finishing revisions on a policy document about the Current Shenanigans, but really he keeps wandering around the house staring blankly at things and for a while was wearing the bold fashion statement of a bathrobe and a baseball cap. He did a liver transplant overnight the night before last and has not quite gotten the hang of reality again, though having known him twenty years I can definitively say he never had the hang of reality in the first place.
s-leary replied to your post “documenting our weird times”
We also ran out of cope today, after the 17th iteration of the same argument. ❤️
I just had to separate the kids, and then forcibly send their mother to the basement to work out like she’d been saying she’d go do for 25 minutes and then was like “oh no the children are making noises I Cannot Leave Them Unattended” and I was like Christ almighty, I am going to sit in the room with them and pay them the attention they want while they take their “recess”, which is a thing that won’t particularly annoy me but will devastate you because it will derail your plans for today and you are a person who invests heavily in following a plan and you are still not recovered from not being able to follow yesterday’s plan so please, for the love of God, go follow your plan for the day and I will sit here and say “yes dear” “mmhmm sweetie” “yes I see it” “no get down from there” “oh you hit pause by accident, try the other remote” “mm does that go in your mouth? didn’t think so” “listen kid we don’t throw things AT people and yes TOWARDS effectively means the same thing as AT so cut it out or that Pokeball becomes mine permanently” while staring at the Internet, which is basically all I had wanted to spend this hour doing anyway.
I can’t be in charge of the lesson plans, but by God, I can just absent-mindedly supervise like a champ.
(She’s out of Cope and is Projecting that onto the children who are not particularly high on Cope but are mostly upset that their mother can’t Cope and honestly it’s a Lot, and I’m going to make an embroidered sampler that just says It’s Been A Lot, For A While Now, because that’s basically how we punctuate every sentence.)
(She also admitted to almost crying at the “WE MISS YOU” banner, but managed not to because she was actually attending the children at the time and they’d have noticed.)
Ha and their dad’s home today too, ostensibly finishing revisions on a policy document about the Current Shenanigans, but really he keeps wandering around the house staring blankly at things and for a while was wearing the bold fashion statement of a bathrobe and a baseball cap. He did a liver transplant overnight the night before last and has not quite gotten the hang of reality again, though having known him twenty years I can definitively say he never had the hang of reality in the first place.
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Date: 2020-04-16 09:10 pm (UTC)It's Been A Lot, For A While Now
and think it'd make a great sampler.
YAY, YOU, for all you're doing to help your BFF's family preserve and replenish their cope!