Mamas please be patient

27. That’s how many consecutive days I’ve gotten at least one text from a mom-friend asking the big question. What will school look like this Fall?

The past four months have been nothing short of a test of wills. Moms and parents have cried over everything from graduation announcements and invites being reprinted, to math homework, to worksheet-hell, to Zoom bombing, to not having one minute of the day away from children. For some they have found themselves with their children for entire days for the first time ever. For others there has been nothing too different, except lack of outside interactions. Still for some they have not yet figured out how to manage.

As the official summer months come into play, everyone is reeling from a few weeks locked in their homes, some without much needed child care, and some with newfound challenges of telecommuting or joblessness.

Regardless of what we have been facing individually, there is no time like the present to have a collective gut churning worry over what’s next.

In the last week we have seen version upon version of CDC guidance, news articles with concerns over teachers feeling safe enough to return to work, childcare shutdowns, push after push to reopen the economy, and more. Anxiety is high, our summer plans have been pretty much shot to hell, and we have no idea what is coming…