Day Two Hundred Ninety-Two

I have a question. I would like to know why exactly it is that reentry after the holidays is just as miserable during a pandemic as it is without one? And why is reentry after the holidays miserable even if you don't take the two weeks off from work? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

I don't know why I thought it would be less bad, but it wasn't. JUST ASK MILA.

Her biggest problem is that she really does think she's going to make staring at her Kindle a full-time job. She's not, but she thinks she is. Her other problem is HOLY CRAP IS THAT KID'S SLEEP CYCLE A MESS.

It's so bad.

We did good while school was out for winter break with keeping up the appearance of a routine. That's mostly because I super don't parent after 9:00 pm. For real. If a kid makes eye contact with me at 9:01, there's a chance I might yell, "I'M OFF DUTY GO TO BED RIGHT NOW GOOOO." My introverted little heart needs time to recharge and that time starts at 9:00. The girls get it.

New Year's Eve, though. Mila was super excited about New Year's Eve and equally disappointed that we weren't headed downtime to watch the "disco ball" drop. Apparently we've done exactly that enough times that Mila has decided it is the normal, so hearing that we would have to watch it all on TV was a super sad thing. That means that I had to deviate from my plan of bluntly lying to my child and telling her it was the new year at about 10:00 pm and sending her on her way. I had to let her stay up for the real thing.

It was all very exciting and charming and whatever, but when 12:05 arrived and I was all, "GO TO BED NOW, CHILD!" Mila was too excited to fall asleep. From there, the dominos fell and it was pure chaos. I think Mila finally fell asleep at about 2:30 am, which generally screwed up everything for the next few days and then school started and hahahahahaha... NOPE.

Mila is a mess.

But at least we made it to 2021?