Name one thing you’ll have to work extra hard at...

[SlayingDragons]

...during the Covid-19 delay/mitigation phase.

I suspect it’ll be different for everyone. I’m personally not too worried about keeping my DC up to date with their school work because they are all very conscientious and I do trust them to keep studying.

For me personally it’ll be not eating back all the weight I’ve just lost. Being out of routine always throws me and it seems like we won’t have much routine at all for the next few months. The holiday in May which was my future point to keep me on target is also now most likely cancelled so I’ll have to be extra disciplined to eat well and not go back to mindless eating because I’m bored/fed up/hungry. I‘be been steadily/slowly losing since November and am now less than half a stone from my goal weight. I can see how easily that could creep up again.

Not killing my husband... 🤔

Being patient with 3 kids under 4 and DH at home.

Living in the same house with 3 teenagers, a preteen and two early twenty dc who still act like teens 🤦🏻‍♀️.

Plus my DH is immune suppressed and the dc are not taking hand washing when coming inside seriously already.

My health anxiety - see above.

We also have an 8 month old beagle puppy who has way too much energy 😱😱.

'Not killing my husband'

my job. I work for the NHS. My job was already crazy busy due to lack of staff and that is only going to get worse. I forsee some very ong days coming up.....

Also not killing my husband.

I can easily WFH, and work for a small business so I'll be doing my best to work around having 2 young children at home. I am expecting early starts and late nights to get my hours in.

Another vote for not killing my husband.

Keeping fit - I've just done a half marathon (got it in last week phew!) and trained really hard. I don't want to have to start again when all this is over but don't have any equipment at home and HATE 'class style' exercise so will have to be very disciplined to build in HIIT stuff to keep cardio up.

Working from home whilst only having a slow laptop whereas at work I have two screens which is perfect for what I do.

Trying to stop my ASD son from melting down due to the change to his routine. Exercise is an important part of his coping mechanism so not looking forward to being housebound. Hoping for warm weather do we can self-isolate in the back garden.

Well "we" are self isolating now. I say we. I'm at home with my children and I developed a cough yesterday so my husband has gone early to his week holiday as he was away at work this last week anyway and will stay there until we know we are all ok. I'm quite anxious about getting the children ill or what will happen if I am hospitalised as I do have a chronic health condition. There's no One who can take over if I'm not here. I'm well used to no adult contact for stretches of time but my older children are struggling already at not playing with their friends in our street. It's raining today so at least they won't be zipping past the window every few minutes.

Being patient (according to DH)
Not killing DH
Resisting temptation to lounge around in pjs reading books and opening wine at lunchtime
Not eating hidden stash of choc and biscuits in one go

I'm the same OP, holiday in May so been working hard to get ready for it. Attending the gym everyday and eating well.

Holiday is most likely cancelled but won't know for sure for a good few weeks.
DD(4) has had every symptom of COVID since Wednesday so we have been in isolation since Thursday. And I can feel my mental health along with my patience going down the drain.

We will be indoors till Thursday at least But that depends on whether myself or DH get what DD has.

The temptation to eat all the bad food is overwhelming.

Not eating all the good stuff right away then living off tinned spaghetti for the following 3 weeks.

Home schooling my children. I'm a teacher but they don't listen to me 😂

Staying calm

My job.

Also, getting over the disappointment of two cancelled holidays 😭

Staying alive.
Front line health care

And not panicking. I'm good at panicking.

My mood. This has got in the way of somethings that were extremely important to me.

The state of my marriage. It "works" as he works shifts, we both have separate hobbies that take us out of the house and we can reconnect a couple of times a year on holiday. The thought of being together, day in day out for potentially weeks or months actually makes me want to sit in a corner and rock.

Keeping my patience with the teens
Getting the teens to get off their screens and work
Making sure the teens don’t kill each other
Not killing the teens

I feel for all of you saying not killing your husband

As an introvert who until recently was a SAHM I can completely empathise. When DH was off work for 6 months a few years ago while undergoing cancer treatment I really struggled and there were definitely days when I actually did sit in the the corner and rock! Having someone in my personal space 24/7 was HARD and we have a very strong marriage.

My DH will be WFH for the next month or two at least but he has set up a home office at a relative’s house so he can actually get some work done - I think this might save my sanity!