covid blues and humble brags

Pandemic strikes!

Mother is at home, without an option to work from it! Teaching two children in the 1st grade & 4th grades. Cannot find a lot of mental space (because there is plenty of time) to be a reader, though this mother has a list of items to be read.

So instead, I, the mother in this short story, have been doing a little bit of exercise to offset the wine drinking from month one.

I made:

• glorious fudge brownies
• banana bread
• velvety chocolate cake for daughter's 7th birthday
• a lot of dinners from scratch; a lot of frozen meals on days when I just cannot

I read: 

• Tea Obreht's Inland
• Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel

I watched:

• We ditched Billions almost at the end of the first season, so we picked back up there - currently on Season Three
• (Gordon) Ramsey's Ultimate Cookery Course

I did:

• a lot of laundry and dishes; I quit!

I'll be:

• writing here more