Does anyone feel under pressure to get everything done. There's all these social media posts about how kids are achieving more than they do at school, how everyone's house and garden look so perfect, better than ever before and people have crafted so many items and learned so many new skills. Then the other posts saying if you haven't achieved this you're lazy/stupid/irresponsible whatever the word of the day was.
I'm starting to feel the pressure of my absolute failure to achieve even one of these. I have one child furious with me for ruining her life due to lockdown, another is lying on the sofa having a big temper tantrum and I don't even know what I did this time to set it off. The house is worse than usual as I don't have a free 2hrs ever to blitz the cleaning without a child undoing it all. I have done no craft, I've fixed household items that have broken but no craft for craft's sake like proper people are doing, I don't think I've particularly learned any skills that I didn't already have.
Then there's the food shop. In the old days it was drive to shop, grab trolley, get what you want, through till, pay, load car, drive home, unload car, put it all away. Now it's: Drive to shop, put on mask, clean trolley, get what you want, through till, load car, gel hands, remove mask, clean phone, gel hands, drive home, unload car, wash hands, clean fridge and freezer stuff, wash hands, put fridge and freezer stuff away, wash hands, clothes in washing machine, wash hands, washing on, have shower, fresh clothes. Then rest ofshopping bags: remove items that have inner wrappers using no touch technique, bin outer wrappers, wash hands items away, fill sink, wash bottles, tins etc, was hands, put them away, clean sink and draining board, wash hands, empty out fruit and veg and wash in colander, wash hands, dry, put away, wash the carrier bags, wash hands, hang the bags out. So much longer before i can get onto the stuff everyone else does and does properly.