Pandemic Parenting.

My parental style during this pandemic can be best summed up by the late Marie Antoinette when she said, "Let them eat cake."

Something about being trapped inside with my cute as can be threesome, has made me so relaxed as a parent I feel like, as Snoop Dogg so eloquently pointed out, "sipping on Gin and Juice, laaaaaid back."

At the beginning of this home school adventure I made my son watch the documentary, Waiting for Superman. Yesterday I made my kids watch Edward Scissorhands.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I carefully organized 3 areas for which my kids to zoom and be super productive. I even ordered a custom room divider to create more privacy for my youngest. I created 3 bins where all of there necessary tools and books would go. We also all agreed to change our clothes everyday, to make it seem as if we were really going.

We brushed our teeth twice a day and made sure to bathe regularly. I even signed up for Instacart, fearful to leave the house.

Six months later, my children started their hybrid educational model with 2 days from home and 3 days in school. The first day they went back, I wandered around Homegoods for 2 hours. I wanted to touch every pot and pan, and nuzzle with every throw pillow. Then I went to TJ Maxx where I might as well have been Liesl Von Trapp during that dance scene in the gazebo through the endless racks of clothes.

Currently my son is zooming in a bathrobe ala Hugh Hefner. The other day, I caught my youngest walking around with her laptop, giving her class a Robyn Leach style tour of our house. I am also pretty sure my middle child has been wearing the same shirt for 3 days.

What? my adorable son. You want to play Fortnite for 16 consecutive hours? Sure! Girls? You want to play Roblox? Go right ahead.

Champagne wishes and caviar dreams people. Champagne wishes...