A total madness has been these times of pandemic, I have never liked to lament, but honestly it has been very strong for me, and that is that being a single mother, housewife and teacher at the same time is really crazy.
It all starts in the morning with the usual breakfast, washing the dishes and starting to clean the house and set up the rooms, as soon as I am finishing I must be setting up the food for lunch, juggling the little I have in the cupboard to prepare something nutritious and tasteful. Here I feel like watching the novel for a moment, however, I must check the mail to see the homework assigned to my son, this is when I become active as a teacher. Helping to do the homework and at the same time having the patience necessary to teach him to drain the lesson of the day, math is the most difficult for Gabriel to assimilate.
After two or three hours dedicated to my son's homework, being about 5 pm on any given day, I go to wash the dishes that got dirty at lunch, to give way to the preparations for dinner, I always eat around 6 pm, and this is when I start to feel the physical exhaustion. I prepare dinner in 30 min or 1 hour, while we eat and wash the dishes again it's 7 or 8 pm, I take a bath to rest, and in an inappropriate moment the electrical system is cut, my eyelids couldn't move, the patience gets to be in the limit of its rupture to give way to the anger after a stressful day full of work.
It is not easy, this quarantine has not been easy for me, it may be unusual, but I rest more at the company's work than at my own home. Hopefully the pandemic will end quickly.
All that has kept me going is my faith that it will all be worth it for my son's good future.
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