Anyone else felt like you were finally hitting your stride balancing family/kids/career and covid-19 has absolutely obliterated that?

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Yup. If for no other reason than our child care expense has doubled, basically eating away everything I make at work...

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Our daycare keeps closing for 14 days for quarantine and I'm about to have a nervous breakdown

Yes. When it hit all went down significantly.

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Hahah yes so much yes! Just trying to get my kids back in school

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