heather.

california by way of massachusetts. mama to 2 littles & a fur baby. getting by on coffee, books, sunshine & adventures. 

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I have an almost 1st grader and another who is killing the potty training we started this week. My babies aren’t babies anymore 😭

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The girls and I are still testing negative for covid and I’ve just completed day 4 of solo parenting. I’m exhausted y’all. I took off work yesterday and im so glad i did because Tyler had the worst day and Avery was a little beast 🥴 he’s feeling a little better today so hopefully he’s over the worst of it. Since B is vaxxed and asymptomatic, she is able to go to school (plus we are testing every day at home before school, and she gets a PCR test 2x’s a week at school). Avery’s daycare requires her to stay home for 10 days. If one of us gets it, her 10 day countdown restarts. Between school drop off and pickup, snacks, lunch & nap, I probably worked like 3 hours max today but it is what it is and I am so thankful to have the support from my team. Anyway, zap me into next week please.

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Haven’t posted in awhile but I’m always here lurking 😂

We’ve gotten this far with no covid in our house but my husband just tested positive this morning, so happy Mother’s Day to me. He is the most careful (he still double masks everywhere) and no clue where he got it. We assumed through the kids, but B gets weekly testing at school and they are both negative.

Now I feel like I’m just a ticking time bomb over here.

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It feels like mid 2020 in “parenting world during a pandemic” and my anxiety levels are sky high. The new CDC guidelines are 💩, my kids teacher has covid and and will be teaching them remotely but I’m still supposed to send her to school in the morning after a 90 minute district zoom call where several parents asked over and over “so I have covid. Can my kid still come to school tomorrow?”

The superintendent said he wants to go fully remote but is literally not allowed, and my husband wants to lie to the school that B has symptoms so we can keep her home and eligible for distance learning.

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I got my booster yesterday and I feel like hot garbage today. I’m not sure my back has ever hurt this much and I’m soooo exhausted. B gets her second dose tonight and I’m making Tyler take her after the tantrum/fiasco of the first dose. Hopefully they have a smoother experience this time around🤞🏻

Also, she LOVED ice skating last week even though it looked miserable lol. I’m so glad she had fun and wants to keep learning!

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Brooklyn has her first ice skating lesson in an hour and I’m mildly panicking that she is going to be terrified and have a meltdown. She’s been asking to learn but she’s also super stubborn when it comes to doing hard things. She just expects to know how to do them and be good or she shuts down. Send some good vibes our way that I’m not totally blowing this $200 🙃

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Covid chronicles day 3

PCR results negative! It’s not covid after all, we just got a false positive on a home test 🙌🏼

Gigantic weight lifted. B can go back to school tomorrow. Avery still has to stay home this week since her whole class is quarantining due to the other kid who is positive but we can deal with that.

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Covid chronicles Day 2

Tyler took Avery to urgent care today for a PCR test to confirm the positive home test. He had them do a rapid test also and it came back negative so ??? Now we wait 24-48 hours for the PCR results but she might not have covid after all 🤞🏻

I’m hoping hoping hoping, otherwise B can’t go back to school for TWENTY days, unless she also tests positive and then it’s 10 days from her positive test. We are trying virtual learning tomorrow but apparently Avery’s daycare is also doing virtual circle time and story time while they are closed for the quarantine period🙃 So I’m not sure how mom and dad are supposed to work and also do two kids zooms.

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Hop aboard the struggle bus. Last night I was brushing my teeth and felt some extreme sensitivity in a tooth where I just had a cavity filled a few weeks ago. A little while later I realized I was missing the filling and there is a freaking hole in my tooth. My dentist is closed until Tuesday and meanwhile every time I drink water I am yelping in pain. This morning I was in a bad mood about it thinking man this sucks, hopefully I can get into the dentist first thing Tuesday. And then I got a phone call from Avery’s daycare that a kid in her class tested positive for covid and their class has to shutdown for 10 days. Ugh. This sucks blah blah… wait, I guess we should test Avery. So we gave her a home test, and she’s positive. So far just a runny nose (which she has had on and off for the last month), so hopefully it remains mild. Now we will have 2 kiddos home with us for the next 2ish weeks and trying to keep them apart so B doesn’t get it (but lol that’s friggin impossible). B is supposed to have her 5 year check up on the very last day of Avery’s quarantine and then get her first dose of the vaccine the day after that. We were also supposed to do family photos this weekend. I feel so much anxiety about this dang tooth thing every time I feel the hole in my face and now I will be worrying about the rest of us catching covid but also how to care for my sick kid and just holding our breath that it doesn’t take a turn.

On another note, I don’t think I mentioned that I bought a peloton bike a couple months ago and have been obsessed. It’s been so good for me to get back into all sorts of fitness classes and I actually am enjoying strength training which I have always hated. I was on the verge of tears all morning and really didn’t want to work out today for the first time since getting the bike, but I pushed myself to do a bike boot camp, some stretching and a meditation and it really did wonders for my mental state. Let’s hope it helps me/us get through the next couple weeks.

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Ugh. Our town election yesterday flopped so far right and now we are going to be run by a bunch of gun loving anti masker / anti vaxxers and I just cannot. I love our house but wow wow wow I feel incredibly panicked knowing this is supposed to be our forever home.

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I had a couple of cavities filled today for the first time in awhile and woooo I forgot how sore you are after 🥴 It’s probably a good thing I forgot or I would have put it off. I also finally finally scheduled the surgery to have the fibroma removed inside my mouth for next month. Knocking out all the adult things that I’ve been avoiding lately.

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My MIL & BIL now also have covid, soooo I no longer feel safe anywhere again. Tyler and I have both had what seem to be colds because we keep testing negative but 🤷🏻‍♀️😩 Andddd Avery has Hand Foot and Mouth so we are just doing GREAT over here.

[delta-breezes]

Anja Keller 

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First day of kindergarten. We made it!

Also, my (vaxxed) SIL and 8 month old niece tested positive today after the wedding last Friday soooooo. We’ve tested twice this week and have been negative, let’s hope it stays that way!

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I AM DONE WITH THIS MOTHER FLIPPING PANDEMIC. It was touch and go (snotty nose at the end of last week) but we got Brooklyn the shots she needed today to start school this Wednesday. Tyler and I went to his cousins wedding on Friday and just found out a bunch of people tested positive for covid today including his aunt and uncle (parents of the bride- both vaxxed, who we hugged and spoke to unmasked). I hate all of this. I just want my kid to have a normal start to kindergarten.

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Sooo we’re getting a hurricane tomorrow apparently and we had no idea until last night and we are v v v unprepared 🥴

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Feeling so much stress over kindergarten 🥴 I was super hesitant about registering B because CT is the ONLY state she is eligible this year but everyone keeps pressuring us (and I know she’s ready). Our goal was to be in a house so we could know where she was going and get registration taken care of with plenty of time. I turned in all the paperwork mid June and TODAY (less than 3 weeks before school starts), the school nurse called me to say she is missing a bunch of vaccines required here (oh and today is her last day🙄). The new pediatrician office has been super hesitant to schedule an appointment for her until after she is 5 due to insurance I guess?? but I was able to get them to fit her in TWO days before school starts. So if for some reason something goes wrong or she’s sick that day, she won’t be going to kinder this year, and we will have NO childcare since their next available appointment is in November. Why can’t all states get on the same page with vaccines and ages etc?!

Adulting is stupid!!