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l33tminion) wrote2021-08-14 08:44 pm
l33tminion) wrote2021-08-14 08:44 pm
Rough Spots
It's been a rough few weeks.
Our dishwasher broke. The bit that prevented water from coming out of the front of the dishwasher decided to relocate and prevent water from coming out of the drain of the dishwasher instead. Given the cost of repair on that 17-year-old dishwasher, I decided that it made sense to get a new one instead. Which is nice, now that it's dealt with, the new one seems effective and is very quiet.
I managed to pinch my hand between the slats of the garage door while closing that earlier this week. But I somehow managed to avoid serious damage, mostly just some scratches and bruising on one finger.
Eris has been having a rough, rough time. She gets super hung up on things that didn't go quite her way, or which she can't quite remember. She gets very upset at the prospect of throwing anything out (to the point of clutching an empty fragment of fruit peel and crying "I love you so much!"). She wants to remember everything, she wants photos of everything. She wants to mark her calendar every day. Multiple times. And give it a hug before bed.
I get that kids her age remember things in a different way than younger kids, and that this is more of a discontinuity than it might be because we stopped going to many of the places we went when she was younger for the past two years. And a lot of things are changing / are going to change in her life with the start of kindergarten in a few weeks. So maybe things will stabilize after that? And there are undercurrents of various things gradually improving. She wants only me to run the bedtime routine every night, which is a lot, but at least that's been going a hair more smoothly. Though "a hair more smoothly" still has it running pretty late. Sleep has been going a little better, too, though I'm still very tired.
The political situation around the pandemic exhausts me. Yeah, we're lucky that COVID doesn't affect children more, it's possible that ~all children getting delta strain soon is not catastrophic (though it surely will be for some). It's probable that getting it young is better than getting it later. But it's also very probable that getting the vaccine first is much better, and that there will be pediatric vaccines available in a few months. It's too early to know that there isn't a shingles to COVID's chickenpox. It's too early to know exactly what the long-term consequences are. Delta strain is about as contagious as chickenpox, but maybe this time we could skip to the phase where most children can get vaccinated first. Is it really so hard to be responsible for another few months? There's this bizarre assumption that children will be traumatized by masks or social distancing or being expected to help themselves and their communities, but not by getting sick or having others get sick or being told that freedom means nothing should be done.
Our dishwasher broke. The bit that prevented water from coming out of the front of the dishwasher decided to relocate and prevent water from coming out of the drain of the dishwasher instead. Given the cost of repair on that 17-year-old dishwasher, I decided that it made sense to get a new one instead. Which is nice, now that it's dealt with, the new one seems effective and is very quiet.
I managed to pinch my hand between the slats of the garage door while closing that earlier this week. But I somehow managed to avoid serious damage, mostly just some scratches and bruising on one finger.
Eris has been having a rough, rough time. She gets super hung up on things that didn't go quite her way, or which she can't quite remember. She gets very upset at the prospect of throwing anything out (to the point of clutching an empty fragment of fruit peel and crying "I love you so much!"). She wants to remember everything, she wants photos of everything. She wants to mark her calendar every day. Multiple times. And give it a hug before bed.
I get that kids her age remember things in a different way than younger kids, and that this is more of a discontinuity than it might be because we stopped going to many of the places we went when she was younger for the past two years. And a lot of things are changing / are going to change in her life with the start of kindergarten in a few weeks. So maybe things will stabilize after that? And there are undercurrents of various things gradually improving. She wants only me to run the bedtime routine every night, which is a lot, but at least that's been going a hair more smoothly. Though "a hair more smoothly" still has it running pretty late. Sleep has been going a little better, too, though I'm still very tired.
The political situation around the pandemic exhausts me. Yeah, we're lucky that COVID doesn't affect children more, it's possible that ~all children getting delta strain soon is not catastrophic (though it surely will be for some). It's probable that getting it young is better than getting it later. But it's also very probable that getting the vaccine first is much better, and that there will be pediatric vaccines available in a few months. It's too early to know that there isn't a shingles to COVID's chickenpox. It's too early to know exactly what the long-term consequences are. Delta strain is about as contagious as chickenpox, but maybe this time we could skip to the phase where most children can get vaccinated first. Is it really so hard to be responsible for another few months? There's this bizarre assumption that children will be traumatized by masks or social distancing or being expected to help themselves and their communities, but not by getting sick or having others get sick or being told that freedom means nothing should be done.