Did You Help Keep Small Humans Alive This Week?

Hip Hip Hooray!!!

Woke up thinking about all the MOMS & DADS I know

(and sure, some grandparents and anyone caring for kids)

who struggled to get through a week at home during a pandemic 

with kids under 18 who otherwise would be at day care

At pre-school and K-12.

And of course how it's been hard for all of us to self-isolate during a pandemic.

I know I survived many trying times

with kids at home

with sick kids at home

with me sick at home

with me on bed-rest for 90 days to help a baby get born & join her big sisters

But this?

This is some order of magnitude different.

This epidemic. This pandemic.

And so I woke up thinking of all the moms and dads and their surrogates

who kept small human beings alive 

for another five days

while attempting some semblance of a schedule

while trying to keep them occupied

while trying to teach them ABCs

or geography

or how incredibly amazing it is outside

or looked up at the night sky because no one had to get up early

or baked cookies together

or visited with grandparents and aunts and uncles virtually.

I woke up thinking I need to give them a shout out.

Perhaps your kid learned their ABC's or some other useful skill this week.

Perhaps your kid didn't learn anything new this week.

But here's the question I want you to ask after you say goodnight to the kids tonight:

DID YOU HELP KEEP SMALL HUMANS ALIVE THIS WEEK?

YES?

Well then,

Here's my

Hip Hip

And

A Hooray!!

[And, not to worry. I haven't forgotten the faithful health care workforce trying to keep all of us alive in the middle of a pandemic, while attempting to hold things together in our f'ckd up, so-called health-care system. May all the saints above bless them and keep them safe.]