To be utterly sick of the new normal?

[UtterlyDone]

I will do as I am told; wear my mask, follow the one way systems, queue up, but I am utterly fed up.

Sick of no hot meals at school meaning 3 nights a week I’m trying to cram a hot meal into my overtired 6 year old at the time she ought to be in bed (she goes to asc and usually she’d have a hot meal at school those days and then take a packed lunch to eat at ASC – school are not allowing anything from home to go in so no packed lunch and they only get a sandwich or wrap plus a piece of fruit to survive on until we get home around 6.15pm it’s completely unfair on DD as she’s used to bath teeth story and bed by 7.15pm)

Sick of swimming lessons, not allowed into change until 5 minutes before the lesson and have to be queued up 1 minute before the lesson starts so having about 2 minutes to get DD changed and in the queue to start. And only have 10 minutes after the lesson to change when it can take that to find a cubicle to change in.

No books, or spellings or homework coming out of school so no idea how my DDs doing at school or how I can help. Yes there’s online resources but I’d usually do 10-15 minutes homework with her a few times a week and then find some online resources to use if she’s struggling in a particular area.

Queuing to get into school in the morning, in the rain and then queuing again to pick her up.

Sick of spending my days off cooking so that the days I’m working I can focus on work and just bung something in the microwave (see above point about when DD should be in bed).

I am sick of having to buy socks all the time as even though they don’t remove shoes DD comes out of school covered in god knows what, and it’s always her socks.

I am sick of wearing a mask when in the office.

I just want something to give me a break. I am utterly exhausted.

Feel free to slate me for this. I am done. Don’t tell me to get signed off sick from work because that’s what keeps a roof over my DDs head and food in her belly. I am tempted to withdraw her from swimming though, but the amount of children in her lesson has dropped from 10 to 4 so I’m worried about the leisure centre being there when I want her to have lessons again.

could your daughter wake a little later in the morning so she's not so tired in the evening? Also can you get a really large breakfast on board (eggs, porridge, cheese on toast maybe) so that what happens later is less of an issue? And maybe raise the hunger issue in school - could the after school club charge a nominal amount extra and give them a snack?

@gnushoes

could your daughter wake a little later in the morning so she's not so tired in the evening? Also can you get a really large breakfast on board (eggs, porridge, cheese on toast maybe) so that what happens later is less of an issue? And maybe raise the hunger issue in school - could the after school club charge a nominal amount extra and give them a snack?

We're already tight for time. We're up at 7am, and out the house at 8.30am for a 9am start because we have to queue for 5-10 minutes before she can go through the gate.

I can't afford the snack option at ASC, it already costs me £144 a month for her to go 3x a week already. To add the snack option is an extra £5 a night making my bill over £200 a month which I just can't afford.

Yanbu. Its awful and it makes me want to scream, if there was an end in sight it would be more tolerable but there’s not. Even the phrase, the new normal, sets my teeth on edge and my mum uses it all the time.