Sunday

Weekend is almost over. We didn't get board games done, but we did some relaxing on the couch with shows, and the kiddo was working on making their book on the laptop this morning and is currently doing Scratch.

Was telling husband that, all other things aside, I'm kind of loving working from home. I basically get 12 extra hours a week to do things; time I'd usually spend commuting and not able to do anything beyond phone games, YouTube, and browsing (when my phone is actually getting a signal on the train, which it often doesn't for about half the underground stops). The commute will be worse come summer too, since there are going to be closures related to the green line extension. So....I hate commuting. But, I also hate driving in awful traffic to pay more than the subway pass costs me....and at least I can browse the phone and stuff while on the train.

I also kind of like how much more engaged the kid seems to be in education. There's push back on math and grammar lessons, but everything else is more custom tailored to their interests, and last week, the kid had: math, grammar, music (violin, also mixed sounds in garage band), computer programming, history, baking, art, science, creative writing, and lots of reading. This coming week, I'm already planning on a "field trip" to at least one of the museums that has some virtual stuff available, and the Museum of Science is doing a STEM session that we've signed up for. I did feel a bit of frustration when my husband remarked that he thinks that the stuff "we've" been providing the kid with this week was a really good variety and well rounded education; since all week, I've been the one downstairs steering the activities, and have found all the things that the kid had done. We're both working from home, but since I'm the one working downstairs, a lot of this has fallen to me. Which is fine, since at least my work is understanding about mom-duties.

Can I just be a full time work from home person with my kid being mostly schooled from home (and can get supplementary lessons somewhere to ensure that they can get into colleges or what not when the time comes should they want to?)...that would kind of be my ideal life. If I could have had a work from home job when kiddo was younger, maybe I would have had the energy for two kids. But nope. Not enough energy for that now.

Now off to lose myself in video games during what's left of the weekend.