If You Give a Mom a Virtual School Schedule

She’ll probably ask for more coffee…

Audrey Burges
Frazzled

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We’re starting at WHAT time, now? (Image credit: Daria Nepriakhina, Unsplash)

If you give a mom a virtual school schedule, she’s going to ask for a cup of coffee.

When you give her the coffee — oh, you’re busy? No worries, she’ll get it herself, it’s not like she’s got anything else going on — she’s going to need a bigger mug.

Once she dumps the dirty paintbrush water out of the bigger mug because no one ran the dishwasher last night but it’s fine, really, she’ll open her work calendar.

When she checks her work calendar, she’ll notice that Morning Meeting is scheduled at the same time as Required Staff Meeting.

Which is also Yank Sodden Pull-ups Off the Toddler Time.

And every other Wednesday is Wacky Hat Day?

She’ll probably start crying.

When she starts crying, she’ll notice that her laptop camera is on, and that the lighting in the dining room/office/school room/art room/sandcastle-building area is terrible.

When she realizes that the lighting is terrible, she’ll decide she needs a ring light.

She’ll start researching one.

When she has researched enough to make a simple decision much harder, she’ll probably want to take a nap.

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Audrey Burges
Frazzled

Author, THE MINISCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (Berkley 2023); work in McSweeney’s, Belladonna, Slackjaw, & elsewhere. Twitter: @audrey_burges; audreyburges.com.