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I went back to school a year before we were fully done homeschooling. The very end involved me offloading a ton of leadership roles that I had within the homeschool community so that part was a bit of a relief. I missed hanging out with the moms. The kids were all really ready to transition at the times they did (all of mine started PS in 8th grade). My last year with the youngest was really sweet and we made the most of it. We ended well and I had a lot of peace about it. During their public high school years I was also in school, which actually worked out pretty well. Then Covid, which made all of our school lives pretty crappy. And now they're off to college and I am starting a new career. It's impacting our last summer together more than I would have hoped but we're still connecting. I'm longing for a really good family vacation. It'll have to wait until next summer, I think. Me working now has added an influx of college funding which gives me a lot of joy. We've never had much to spare around here and I'm loving being able to provide this for them.

Also a nope for me. Never got more than 2 letters!

Day 8 for ds19, day 9 for ds22, day 10 for me. I was testing myself daily from about day 8. I went from instant dark line on day 8, to 3 minute lighter line on day 9, to no line on day 10.

Dh came back to the bedroom when I still had a faint line- he was done sleeping on the couch. He didn't catch it. I really do think the 10 day rule is probably spot on. I don't think people are very contagious at the very end of the illness. Think historically of how we dealt with every other virus in the past- when the person was feeling significantly better, they stopped isolating. The difference is this is the first virus that we can just test and test away for at home. So all that to say, yes, I would release him, especially since he's such a sport about masking.

This is bringing me back. I used to play the "quiet game" in the car with my older kids. Whoever stayed quiet the longest won. The youngest came along and I tried it with her, she was quiet for 3 seconds and then said, "I lost!" and that was the end of the quiet game.

I don’t mask anymore. Anything less than an N95 is useless (or of very little benefit with omicron) and I’m just not willing to live like that as a new normal. To me (I know other disagree) between vaccines and omicron being so much milder than what we were previously dealing with, I am willing to navigate the world just as I did with the flu. I think the social aspects for kids are a huge deal and actually matter a lot. My kids are all older but I would not make my kids mask, personally. We avoided Covid all the way up until last month and when we did get it, it was from someone we spend 8 hours a day with. It sucked, but we all fully recovered. I’ve had much worse experiences with the Flu and various other viruses. I’m beyond grateful that we never got Alpha or Delta but I’ve fully turned the page on revolving my life around Covid avoidance.

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Some of the companies sell extra meat and I found getting the 2 person and just adding more protein worked when dd was the only kid home. We’re swapping them out next year, ds will be the kid at home. He eats for 2 so I’m back to 4 person kits.

Dh and dd avoided it when we had 3 down in our house. Fight the good fight! It’s totally ok to room them together. It’s what we do at the hospital.

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Absolutely. I’m kind of stunned that you have to furnish your own room. The facility is responsible for keeping both their staff and their residents injury free. A hospital bed and pressure reducing mattress are both vital to accomplish that.

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That completely sucks and also sounds like something I would do. So sorry!

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Final omicron check in. I ended up negative today, day 12. Slight cough and runny nose still but resolving. Still a little tired. Going to work so we’ll see how my energy really holds up. DS 22 who got the monoclonals tested neg day 10. He might have been neg earlier but I didn’t try. Still has moderate congestion but working through it. DS 19 felt significantly better on day 5, negative day 8 (it was all I could do to keep him down those 3 days). Still has a tiny running nose but totally back to normal energy.

I'd ask where, but you don't seem to want to say (and that's ok). Are there many Germans? We may have established that as a through line.

All this regional talk made me think of another one for me. People who leave California and then make it their whole personality. Listen, if you want to leave, leave. I left and came back; I get it. But please stop talking about it. The place you moved doesn't want to hear it- they hate you for bringing your California-ness to their state. Those of us still here do not care. We know it's less expensive elsewhere, we just don't want to live anywhere else. And if you are planning on leaving but haven't yet left, please only talk to the people above. No one else cares.

You made the right decision

We rented a house that had a shower so small that your elbows could touch opposite walls. Then the landlord redid it. Dude was 5'2" and he hired a "contractor" (read unlicensed Russian guy) who was also about 5'. Now, we are not tall people, but I am not lying when I tell you that the new shower head was installed at my boob height and no one saw anything wrong with that.

I don't think of mid-atlantic as a region at all (which is not to say it isn't, just that I don't have a category for it). What other states would you include? And did you force yourself to write that to be or did it come naturally?

See, if I really think about it, I guess I would have said northeast, too. Especially Philadelphia. I have several friends from there and Philly women are a vibe (as an aside, is Philly something that locals say? Or is it like San Fran, which makes locals wince?). Anyhoo, women from Philadelphia are absolutely not midwesterners (probably the men, too, but I don't know any). However, I have some other friends who live in western PA and they are totally different. Almost vanilla. Like the opposite personality of my Philly friends (I'm just going to roll with it for now). I think of them as midwestern.

Tickets- if that person coordinated with my husband and made sure my calendar was clear/that the timing was good for me, my immediate reaction would be panic and then I would settle into excitement. If they didn't do any legwork, it would be a HUGE turn off for me. I would go, but I would feel weird about the friendship because this person clearly doesn't understand my life and they just threw themselves on me- Big red flag in the low maintenance category. In-person communication matters zero to me. Nearly all of my very best friends are people I rarely see in person. Even people I live near are people I see every few months at best. I talk almost every day with my childhood best friend and it's been years since we've seen each other.