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One day in my shoes.

You wake up at 7:00 am. You have a contracted neck because Clemente still breastfeeds and sleeps across the middle of your bed. A good coffee and some toast before the day starts, will help you gather some energy. But you don't have any coffee left and Diego -husband-has already gone to work.

Your first meeting is at 7:30 (you schedule them very early so there are no children around) but as soon as you connect to Zoom, Clemente arrives at “the office” asking for “teta”.

You breastfeed Clemente trying to hide your breast from the zoom screen, but in the middle, Olivia calls you and accidentally you perform a “nude show”. You also stumble upon the toys that are already thrown on the floor.

Oli is hungry so you prepare her something to eat. While you are in the kitchen you hear a suspicious silence. You return to the living room and you find everything with “awesome” colors. A curly head can be seen behind the sofa.

You go back to the computer just to realize that apparently "someone" deleted the important file you were working on.

You decide to tidy up your house, but behind you, two seconds after, the children are making a mess again.

Clemente and Olivia want to touch EVERYTHING you are doing. Everything. But if you mention the words "help me to tidy up", it suddenly seems like you're speaking in Chinese.

You try to prepare something to eat. The best idea would seem to be locking yourself in the kitchen, but when you go out the chaos is even greater.

The kids are fighting because one took the toy from the other. While you are having a call with your boss, you tell them that “they shouldn't fight, that they need to share”. Their screams are heard in the background of your conversation.

10.

You tidy up the room again, but as soon as you sit down and try to work, you hear the noise of a drawer being thrown on the floor one more time.

11.

You “play the card you have under your sleeve” to be able to hold the most important meeting of the day. In other words, you offer them sweets.

12.

Sugar had its effect: you have Hyperactive Children now. The bad news is that the important meeting has not started yet ...

13.

Your zoom is accidentally unmuted in the middle of a meeting. You have no idea what could have been heard.

14.

It's time for Olivia's school zoom. You think that at least this is going to entertain her, but she doesn't want to connect. You end up more stressed than before you started.

15.

You decide to let them watch some TV. “It is not going to hurt them, they are not going to die” (you repeat to feel less guilty). But you turn it on and they begin to argue about who chooses the cartoon they will watch.

16.

You are beginning to lose your mental health: you have to prepare a presentation for tomorrow and you made no progress. You create a game to entertain them. But do not celebrate... everything can go wrong.

17.

Diego calls and tells you that he will arrive later from work.

18.

It's time to shower the kids, and you shower them together in order to save time. They flooded the whole bathroom and wet all the towels and toilet paper.

19.

You do the dishes, sweep, clean, cook and CRY. You have to prepare tomorrow's presentation and you are running out of time.

20.

You receive a call from an unknown number. You think “Did I maybe win a prize somewhere? Is somebody calling to offer a great job?” but no: they call to let you know that you had contact with a COVID positive and everyone in the house has to be swabbed.

21.

You prepare the dinner.When you come back, toys are everywhere again...

The end.

The day is over (not the pandemic yet, but at least the day it is!). You help them to put on their pajamas. Then, they hug you and tell you that they love you to the infinity and beyond. You sigh and smile, because in the end, everything is worth it.