I am sitting here next to our ninth grade son who is currently doing his Geometry homework.

He is using words like hypotenuse and perpendicular

Trying to find the distance a lady in a parachute would be from the helicopter pad if she jumped from the helicopter after it flew from the pad at a 20 degree angle for 2.1 Kilometers…

What even are kilometers?

And you know all those weird buttons on calculators that you have no clue what they are for…yeah he is using those..and trying to explain them to me…

Heellllppppp…… cos(37) =x over 2.1 is Greek to me

I am just a mom

Not to diminish the value of being a mom

I just mean I am not a Geometry teacher

It has been 20 years since I was in Geometry

Before this I was teaching our first grade boy to read a clock

That I can do

Even tho I still haven’t taught him to tie his shoes (sorry Miss Gray!)

I still believe that I am amazing

Geometry degree aside

I am a human living the human experience and it is not easy

Trying and learning new things every day

We never know what’s coming

We don’t always have all the right tools

We don’t have all the answers

It doesn’t always go as planned

We don’t always have a plan

We change the plan constantly

We say that’s enough for one day and send everyone outside or take an ice cream break

We have full days where we do no homework at all

Where I clean and cook and just be a mom

Sometimes I just need a full day of not saying ‘If I catch you on games instead of classwork again you are going to lose chromebook privileges’

Whatever you are doing, have done, or will do to help your kids on their education route during this shutdown

I think you are amazing

You and your kids are amazing, even when the house is upside down

Even when:

The kids need a bath

Their nails need clipped

Their hair needs cut

They are sneaking onto games or other distractions on the chromebook every time you turn your back

Even when you don’t understand the homework

And the technology is confusing

And chromebooks won’t connect to the printer

And you Google for help

And while you are helping one child

Another is helping themselves to the blender for blended coffee creation inventions

aka: sticky mess of the century

Even if you can hardly keep all the teachers and assignments straight

Even when you get impatient or overwhelmed or frustrated

You are amazing for being you and living in your shoes under whatever hardship this shutdown has brought you

It has been an amazing experience

Amazingly unpredictable

Amazingly anxious

Amazingly full of memories

Amazingly full of learning experiences

Amazingly human