A small kindness
Been doing all sorts of activities to try to keep the boy entertained.
He’s happy to not be in school but misses his friends.
So, I just baked a whole crapton of almond flour chocolate cupcakes and cake for him, just to cheer him up and so he would have something tasty and, relatively speaking, nutritious.
Several of the boy’s classmates also have COVID, so we’ve worked out our own little pod system where they rotate time with each of us.
It’s better than nuthin.
Little girl: I’m bored.
Me: Wonderful! I have math problems for you to do.
Her: Noooooo! We’ll read.
Me: Good choice.
As always, May’s a pretty awful month for me in general. I still hate May.
Alison was born in May. She died in May. Mother’s Day is May.
It’s like, one hit after another.
On a smaller, but more annoying, note, it turns out that allergy season peaks in May as well. Of course.
Somehow, though, I feel that this May will be more manageable – emotionally, at least – than previous Mays.
One thing that really gave me a sigh of relief was when the kid’s teacher wrote to say that they wouldn’t be doing Mother’s Day or Father’s Day this year but “Family Day.”
Evidently, I’m not the only parent in the class that has an unconventional family.
I wrote her a short thank you and she wrote back that she was glad she could help in some small way to give me one less thing to stress about.
It’s the small kindnesses that I think I value the most.
Him: Can I have a cupcake for breakfast?
Me: A muffin is just a naked cupcake so, sure, why not?
Him: You’re the best papa, ever!
Me: This may well be true.
Location: in the gym for the first time in a while
Mood: hesitant
Music: you are my sunrise on the darkest day, got me feelin’ some kind of way (Spotify)
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