Two Year Journey

Just another day at the office

For the past two years, my wife & I had two extra WFH office mates: our infant and toddler.

It was loony bin level insanity.

They were on nearly every Zoom call. Emails and Slacks had to be typed with one hand only. If I was off camera, chances are it’s because one kid had a last minute “business meeting.”

That was code for 💩.

Most of the time it was impossible. We were at a perpetual breaking limit. We feared that we were failing at both family and work. “Balance” was hahaha a total fever dream.

But we hung in like that tiny, hapless poster kitten. We. Hung. In. For. Two. Years.

And now as of this month, both kids are in daycare. Gone are the minute-to-minute challenges of constant hand-offs, frantic quadruple-tasking, tense turn-taking negotiation & just barely squeezing in deep work during nap times.

Now, the chaos that once blanketed our entire days is pushed to the margins of early morning & late afternoon.

For the first time in two years, I can sit and work uninterrupted. I can think clearly.

A clear head is useful for so much: writing decks! Forming complete sentences! Remembering to eat! And finally: gratitude!

Because no matter how exhausting and trying this can get, I know how lucky we are that our jobs allow us this WFH flexibility to juggle all this crazy.

And even though things are getting saner now, part of me misses all that chaos just a little bit.

I miss my two rowdy little coworkers. But not their impromptu business meetings though. I haven’t totally lost my mind.

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