To say this year has been hard is the biggest understatement one could ever make. The amount of change inflicted on everyone globally is simply astounding. People have been placed out of work, children were barred from their school buildings, everything shifted to online ordering and pickup. But, the biggest change to hit us personally aside from doing teletherapy times SEVENTEEN appointments per week between all of the children, is WORK FROM HOME….
Now I have always worked from home. And schooled my children from home. But as much as I love my husband learning to incorporate HIM working from home too fulltime while still doing all of our other needed daily activities (school, therapy, cooking, cleaning, editing, sewing….) this has been interesting.
For a time we threw him out on the porch to work. Because these children are impossible to keep on schedule with added distraction and seeing him and his stuff was a distraction of epic proportion here. Oh the joy the toddlers have had any time they have managed to “work’ some of his work. They want to touch his shit so bad they can’t even see strait.
Then the weather turned on us. the lovely breezes parted to make way for sweltering heat and repetitive storms. So alas we moved him and his work into the basement game room. This room doubles as Kolby’s bedroom. This has been complicated. Kolby likes his space. He shares it during family gaming times like playing pool or air hockey or doing a Lego build on the Lego wall without issue because we are all actively engaging. He is fine with that…. But he is NOT fine with hanging out upstairs during a whole work day so his dad can quietly do meetings and paperwork.
Oh the times he has yelled, “Is He done YET!” “Can I just go downstairs?” “Why is he in my room?” And he’s super great about having these yelling moments specifically during the baby’s nap time.
SOLUTION?
Not truly sure I have one. But currently one thing I am trying to work towards is a space for him that protects his things and gives him a quiet spot in the day without taking anyone else’s space. Well not not ANYONE else’s I am giving up my one quiet spot to ever escape to. The crib is coming down today. the baby and Kel will now be roomies. We setup a lovely low loft with a mattress under it to keep the baby safely floor level. He isn’t currently using it, he’s still refusing but efforts will continue.
As for the desk space. I found this on marketplace and offered $50 (a bit under asking) and some paint, some ingenuity and such and this is going to match my shabby chic bedroom, hold all his shit in perfect organization (that I will have to setup myself cause this MF can’t organize a drawer to save his fucking life) My OCD simply can’t handle an unorganized mess inside my room so I will make it very very “SET”
I will show photos as it’s completed. It’s going to be fantastic. And I will attempt to cope with this long term situation. His work basically has no plans to be face to face again anytime soon and these children are losing their shit. Cross your fingers that
As I typed this up I had to stop and walk away to break up a fight over literally nothing that unreasonably escalated to to a screaming match between Kel and Kwyn during one of Jason’s important meetings and the baby’s nap. I truly must get things ready to do some home reno this next year. if work from home becomes permanent we MUST have a dedicated sound proofed office. We gonna lock that MF and never let a child see inside and never ever tell them it exists. Out of sight out of mind and all that. If they THINK he’s gone maybe my children will stop acting like feral beasts during business hours.
