Sunday, June 7
By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
Recently I read we should do self-care like we were taking care of a toddler, because of Corona stress.
I had an “aha” moment!
I’m being a responsible adult: taking out the garbage, paying bills, helping plan next steps for organizations I care about to take as we transition to a more open world (at least for some) and working to keep Calvin’s guiding skills up while he can’t go many places.
But I feel like a cranky, whiny toddler: I want naps, comfort food, hugs and someone to tell me it’ll be okay. Sometimes I have brain fog and the attention span of a flea, like when I’m trying to read a budget sheet from the County Board packet.
Do the following to keep the toddler happy so the adult can function:
- Keep her on a schedule.
- Give her work, play, naps and healthy finger food.
- Make sure she plays with the dog daily; both enjoy it.
- Have plenty of poetry and music in her life; they soothe.
- Send her plenty of humor, especially COVID humor like the following:
- I hope they give us two weeks’ notice before sending us back out into the real world. I think we’ll all need the time to become ourselves again. And by “ourselves” I mean lose 10 pounds, cut our hair and get used to not drinking at 10 a.m.
- New monthly budget: Gas $0 Entertainment $0 Clothes $0 Groceries $2,799.
- Breaking News: Wearing a mask inside your home is now highly recommended. Not so much to stop COVID-19, but to stop eating.
- When this quarantine is over, let’s not tell some people!
- I stepped on my scale this morning. It said: “One person at a time only.”
- Not to brag, but I haven’t been late to anything in over six weeks.
- It may take a village to raise a child but I swear it’s going to take a vineyard to home school one.
- You know those car commercials where there’s only one vehicle on the road? That doesn’t seem so unrealistic now.
- They can open things up next month, but I’m staying in until July to see what happens to y’all first.
- Day 47: The garbage man placed an AA flyer on my recycling bin.
- The spread of COVID-19 is based on two things: 1. How dense the population is. 2. How dense the population is.
- Never in a million years would I have imagined that I’d go up to a bank teller wearing a mask and ask for money.
- Coronavirus has turned us all into dogs. We wander around the house looking for food. We get told “No” if we get too close to strangers, and we get really excited about going for walks and car rides.
- The dumbest thing I’ve ever bought was a 2020 planner!
The home page image is a conceptual rendering of a coronavirus cell.