How You Doin?

Stealing my favorite Joey line from Friends for the title here.

Cause seriously.....how YOU doin?

These times are hard. On you and me and our kids and our parents and on business owners and on politicians and on famous people and especially on essential workers from medical personnel to grocery store workers.

I am overwhelmed trying to keep David safe, keep Kyle off screentime to a certain degree, and work when the kids are at their dad's and then you talk about homeschool???? Forget it.

Some of you are working from home and trying to homeschool and entertain little ones. Some of you have a strict homeschool schedule and that's totally fine. Some of you are like me and make your kids get up and login and check to see what work they have and trust that they're doing what they need to do. And literally just pray that what they turned in is sufficient.

We're all going to handle this in a different way. Some might resort to an extra glass (or two) of wine at night. Some might be napping more (my favorite way to handle this). Some might have to have a good scream and cry and then boss up and go on with your life. Some might have to cuss and throw stuff. You might see some meditating the peace right into themselves. Some might be baking more (I also might be guilty of this).

Any way you choose to approach it isn't wrong. I promise. You won't always feel strong and you won't always feel in control. Which is how I've basically felt my entire life of being a mother of a special needs child. The unknown.

We are in a world of unknowns currently. You have to give everyone grace during this. Be respectful.
Be helpful. Be aware. Those things are all FREE.

The memes make me laugh in this time. I kind of live for them at this point. I NEED to smile in the time of unknown. They might be annoying to you. Scroll past them and move on. People like me like to know that there is humor in life and sometimes they make me feel so much better about my hot mess of a world my life can be.

I pray at night. You might not. And that's cool too. The seriousness of all of this isn't lost on me and I do like to think that my faith will help me through. It's heavy to think about. And I'm a total empath and I feel for all those people I've never met. So I choose to do the only thing I know to for them and pray.

It's a tough world right now folks. Stay safe and practice sheltering in place as much as you possibly can. Let's make this go away faster. TOGETHER.

Because if we're not united, we're nothing against this.