It is spring break this week here but I am working so I have spent most of the week preparing multiple meals and listening to everyone complain about how bored they are 🤣. Can’t wait for everyone to go back to school next week!
Omg, my friends and I were just talking about this — when kids are on break it feels like you're just constantly feeding them and dealing with their requests and complaints. Spring "break" is no break for parents! Hang in there - next week is almost here!
I’m in my first year of grad school for cell and molecular bio and last week I had my first spring break since 2008...and I spent it sick! I started feeling cold symptoms around March 2, but all my COVID tests remained negative. Then this last weekend I took another nose dive and spiked a fever and tested positive. My first time getting COVID and it was a doozy. So not only did I not get to enjoy spring break, I’ve also missed a week of classes which is really hard to make up. I am finding grad school actually less understanding and accommodating than any of my old jobs. Honestly I think I would’ve missed 10 days of work this month had I been in my old job, and they wouldn’t have loved it but would’ve understood. Grad school has been not very supportive or helpful, even though I’m struggling with a virus we know is circulating and needs to be taken seriously. Sign. Venting over. Fortunately my toddler and spouse are still testing negative so hopefully they avoided the infection this round!
Oh no!!!!! As someone who's just gotten over Covid, I'm sending so many hugs. It is NOT a fun experience and recovery is so slow! Funnily enough, the thing that stressed me out the most was also grad school, but from the teaching side. I had to cancel a class, and really wanted to cancel two, but I knew that anything I canceled I had to later make up, and my classes are also really important for preparing my students for upcoming assignments, so I felt that if I didn't get back to "normal" for them, I'd mess up their whole semester. I'm really sorry that your professors haven't been accommodating; I would give out extensions and other accommodations for Covid-related woes in a heartbeat, and other professors should, too. I hope you feel better soon!!!
That's good to hear! My professors have just mostly been unresponsive, and as a student who takes school seriously it's been frustrating. I've asked one prof three times what I can do to make up for missing a lab (labs are hard to miss but I was highly symptomatic and we are working with tissue cells, there's no way I could've been there safely) and so far he hasn't said anything other than what we were doing in the lab and asking if I was going to come. My other class I've only gotten one email from the prof and it literally only said "OK" which I had to laugh at. I let him know I'd be missing class and that I'd be turning in an assignment late and asked a couple questions on what he'd like me to do about things. Ah well. It's a good exercise for me in knowing what's valuable (my health, my family) and letting it go that I'm not getting active affirmation and approval from authority figures which I've spent way too much of my life worrying about. I'll still pass my classes and eventually get my degree, this will just be a bumpy week along the way I guess!
I'm so frustrated on your behalf right now! But YES, I very much support your approach to try to let it go and focus on your health and your family. Hugs!!
My two year old's new nighttime trick is to pretend to be a ghost. He slams his nursery room door shut... then silence... no movement... when I sit up on the bed trying to figure out what's happening, he has silently creeped into the corner of our room, and stand there like a statue in his white sleep sack, two eyeballs glowing in the dark. I call his name and he doesn't say anything. Eventually he replies "Mamaa?" but each night this week he changes his spot freaking the living daylight of me, as I never know where he is after the door bang.
Right?! I mean last night he ended up standing in the midland of the upstairs hallway - and how do you reason with a 2 year old “look, this is really freaking me out”
right?! The week before he was calling for me from his bed saying he’s thirsty but then not wanting anything . Each week he has some new nighttime waking strategy to engage with me one way or another
It's Girl Scout cookie season here. Despite our council agreeing to push back the date of our cookie sales, there's still shortages. I am cookie mom, which means managing inventory for fifteen people while different pickup locations are randomly out of stock of different varieties. I mean, the good thing is that the cookies are selling really well which is great for the girls and great monetarily for the troop, but getting multiple requests for multiple cases of cookies at a time is a bit overwhelming.
Meanwhile, 7yo is ping-ponging wildly between "SELL TO ALL THE NEIGHBORS!!!!!" and "what are cookies?" and I'm deciding which type of cooking I'm going to buy and eat next.
It is spring break this week here but I am working so I have spent most of the week preparing multiple meals and listening to everyone complain about how bored they are 🤣. Can’t wait for everyone to go back to school next week!
Omg, my friends and I were just talking about this — when kids are on break it feels like you're just constantly feeding them and dealing with their requests and complaints. Spring "break" is no break for parents! Hang in there - next week is almost here!
I’m in my first year of grad school for cell and molecular bio and last week I had my first spring break since 2008...and I spent it sick! I started feeling cold symptoms around March 2, but all my COVID tests remained negative. Then this last weekend I took another nose dive and spiked a fever and tested positive. My first time getting COVID and it was a doozy. So not only did I not get to enjoy spring break, I’ve also missed a week of classes which is really hard to make up. I am finding grad school actually less understanding and accommodating than any of my old jobs. Honestly I think I would’ve missed 10 days of work this month had I been in my old job, and they wouldn’t have loved it but would’ve understood. Grad school has been not very supportive or helpful, even though I’m struggling with a virus we know is circulating and needs to be taken seriously. Sign. Venting over. Fortunately my toddler and spouse are still testing negative so hopefully they avoided the infection this round!
Oh no!!!!! As someone who's just gotten over Covid, I'm sending so many hugs. It is NOT a fun experience and recovery is so slow! Funnily enough, the thing that stressed me out the most was also grad school, but from the teaching side. I had to cancel a class, and really wanted to cancel two, but I knew that anything I canceled I had to later make up, and my classes are also really important for preparing my students for upcoming assignments, so I felt that if I didn't get back to "normal" for them, I'd mess up their whole semester. I'm really sorry that your professors haven't been accommodating; I would give out extensions and other accommodations for Covid-related woes in a heartbeat, and other professors should, too. I hope you feel better soon!!!
That's good to hear! My professors have just mostly been unresponsive, and as a student who takes school seriously it's been frustrating. I've asked one prof three times what I can do to make up for missing a lab (labs are hard to miss but I was highly symptomatic and we are working with tissue cells, there's no way I could've been there safely) and so far he hasn't said anything other than what we were doing in the lab and asking if I was going to come. My other class I've only gotten one email from the prof and it literally only said "OK" which I had to laugh at. I let him know I'd be missing class and that I'd be turning in an assignment late and asked a couple questions on what he'd like me to do about things. Ah well. It's a good exercise for me in knowing what's valuable (my health, my family) and letting it go that I'm not getting active affirmation and approval from authority figures which I've spent way too much of my life worrying about. I'll still pass my classes and eventually get my degree, this will just be a bumpy week along the way I guess!
I'm so frustrated on your behalf right now! But YES, I very much support your approach to try to let it go and focus on your health and your family. Hugs!!
My two year old's new nighttime trick is to pretend to be a ghost. He slams his nursery room door shut... then silence... no movement... when I sit up on the bed trying to figure out what's happening, he has silently creeped into the corner of our room, and stand there like a statue in his white sleep sack, two eyeballs glowing in the dark. I call his name and he doesn't say anything. Eventually he replies "Mamaa?" but each night this week he changes his spot freaking the living daylight of me, as I never know where he is after the door bang.
This is TERRIFYING. How do our children figure out the weirdest ways to make us crazy?!
Right?! I mean last night he ended up standing in the midland of the upstairs hallway - and how do you reason with a 2 year old “look, this is really freaking me out”
Yes, wow, I am both extremely impressed by your child and also horrified that you have to go through this every night!!!
right?! The week before he was calling for me from his bed saying he’s thirsty but then not wanting anything . Each week he has some new nighttime waking strategy to engage with me one way or another
It's Girl Scout cookie season here. Despite our council agreeing to push back the date of our cookie sales, there's still shortages. I am cookie mom, which means managing inventory for fifteen people while different pickup locations are randomly out of stock of different varieties. I mean, the good thing is that the cookies are selling really well which is great for the girls and great monetarily for the troop, but getting multiple requests for multiple cases of cookies at a time is a bit overwhelming.
Meanwhile, 7yo is ping-ponging wildly between "SELL TO ALL THE NEIGHBORS!!!!!" and "what are cookies?" and I'm deciding which type of cooking I'm going to buy and eat next.