So France public t.v. launched virtual classroom programs. At 9am the level is two grades up for my daughter but she tries anyways and then gets bored and goes and plays something else (which is great because it limits her t.v. time). Afterwards they have programs for younger kids which turned out to be… cartoons. At least sometimes the cartoons are more educational than what my kids pick out on their own.
After a schedule-less free for all that was basically last week I decided that I needed to find a way that all parts of my life could co-exist at the same time while maintaining order. It goes something like this:
6:30am – Wake up (my son is still calibrated for non-lockdown mode).
7am: I put on a pot of coffee and I check my emails and do some work
8am: Everyone wakes up and eats breakfast
9am: Kids to go to virtual school
9:30: Call into my daily team meeting
10: Start to look into what we can eat for lunch since I now have to make all meals and my kids have kept their non-lockdown eating schedules in which they eat lunch around 11.
11am: We eat lunch
12: I do schoolwork with my daughter while my son naps and my husband calls into his team meeting
2pm: Drink coffee and I put on my ridiculous red beret and go back to work (thank you two hour French lunch breaks) while my kids do an activity.
4pm: Gouter (afternoon snack)
5pm: Stop working and everyone goes out for exercise least everyone gets stir crazy/fat.
6pm: Start making dinner
7pm: Eat dinner
8pm: Give kids their bath
9pm: Put kids to bed
9:30pm: Clean up the huge mess that is made in twelve hours by two children as their parents turn a blind eye to non-dangerous activities so they can work.
So that’s how it goes. More or less.
It’s as if you took four people’s day and mashed them together and only the most urgent thing survives. Any residuals are placated through the magic of improvisation.
After a schedule-less free for all that was basically last week I decided that I needed to find a way that all parts of my life could co-exist at the same time while maintaining order. It goes something like this:
6:30am – Wake up (my son is still calibrated for non-lockdown mode).
7am: I put on a pot of coffee and I check my emails and do some work
8am: Everyone wakes up and eats breakfast
9am: Kids to go to virtual school
9:30: Call into my daily team meeting
10: Start to look into what we can eat for lunch since I now have to make all meals and my kids have kept their non-lockdown eating schedules in which they eat lunch around 11.
11am: We eat lunch
12: I do schoolwork with my daughter while my son naps and my husband calls into his team meeting
2pm: Drink coffee and I put on my ridiculous red beret and go back to work (thank you two hour French lunch breaks) while my kids do an activity.
4pm: Gouter (afternoon snack)
5pm: Stop working and everyone goes out for exercise least everyone gets stir crazy/fat.
6pm: Start making dinner
7pm: Eat dinner
8pm: Give kids their bath
9pm: Put kids to bed
9:30pm: Clean up the huge mess that is made in twelve hours by two children as their parents turn a blind eye to non-dangerous activities so they can work.
So that’s how it goes. More or less.
It’s as if you took four people’s day and mashed them together and only the most urgent thing survives. Any residuals are placated through the magic of improvisation.
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