There’s a global pandemic, in case you haven’t heard. Everyone’s writing about and talking about and TikToking about it. We are very fortunate – healthy and employed – when a lot of people aren’t one, or both, of those things. But working form home and teaching from home, with three kids learning at home, is a whole new level of chaos. Except when it’s not. See… we’re okay. I don’t really mind this reality. I’m okay with not running around to 5 different things every Saturday morning and I’m especially okay with not feeling guilty about all the things we’re not doing – because nobody else is doing them either.

Fellow parents – could we all agree to take a step back on the (pro-career that’s never going to happen) summer training camps and on the (concert pianist – the odds are even lower than going pro in the NHL) piano lessons and try, really try, to stay just a little bit slowed down when this is all over? I know that we are going to let go of the olympic gold (in what sport exactly?) dream.