We made it! My family are thriving. School work is being completed. I’m back to operating my business. First bottle of wine in eight weeks. Happy Mother’s Day to me!
The announcement of re-opening non-essential health care businesses came as a complete surprise at this stage of recovery. This meant spending the weekend preparing the business to comply with COVID-related protocol. Although I feel my profession is one of the best suited to operate during a pandemic, my sentiment is not the same for most other businesses that are now allowed to open. I will be following the developments closely next little while and weighing the risks before making the decision to enrol my children in public daycare or summer camps. There is the possibility of a necessary lockdown in the future due to resurgence of cases. Schools will remain closed until September.
Despite the fact that there is no outside influence for my children on Mother’s Day, we always celebrate it. I have no shame in making a big deal of my motherhood. I worked hard to achieve it and it defines me. My children can appreciate and understand that for me, it is a celebration of them. They know of the fertility struggles, years of planning and then pre-eclampsia that nearly took me. On this day I am thankful and I celebrate life. I choose to uphold and demonstrate to my kids the traditions my late father had for my own mom by baking his traditional cake and getting flowers for our deck and for my mother.
To all the mothers out there, especially during this pandemic: You’ve risen up! You are doing an amazing job! You are very likely working at your career while home schooling and raising your kids, taking care of grandchildren or God forbid caring for a sick or special needs child, or any combination of above. Happy Mother’s Day 🌹.
Single parenting during COVID-19 pandemic 