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Let’s Send Grandma Home During the Pandemic
Protecting our loved ones can be really tough — for everyone
Our family started social distancing 10 days ago. I have been at home even before the schools were closed — as I am usually working from home anyway. But then it became a family thing, social distancing together.
The first big disruption in our lives came when on Monday the kids didn’t go to school. Instead, they needed to install around a million apps and programs on their gadgets — because we are the lucky ones with enough technology around. They loved it at first — and I hated it immediately.
Gosh, I didn’t realise how much cooking was necessary to replace the school meals, how many times they would get stuck with basic tasks and how we would be sort of always on top of each other during the day when it came to using the bathroom.
We adapted — we are adapting. It comes in waves. We are coping. We’re okay.
It was fun until it wasn’t. They started to get bored with me and each other. They started to miss their friends. They started to miss going out. They started to miss their sports practices. They started to miss grandma.
Yesterday my mum appeared on our doorstep — fully equipped with a mask and even a scarf on top of it, with gloves on. She…
