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10 - The number of times it took me to film a 2-minute instructional video for my students without some embarrassing noise in the background.
9 - The number of socks I pick up laying randomly around the house when we do a tidy.
8 - The average number of hours I am on the computer during a typical workday. Also, the number of hours of sleep which makes my body happy.
7 - The number of times I say, "Why is this doing that?" to my daughter's new tablet while she does online learning activities of her own.
6 - The number of hours of sleep I get when it is interrupted with children having nightmares. To answer your questions... The nightmare victim was the oldest. The reason was due to watching octopus eggs hatch on her sister's kindergarten online classroom.
5 - The number of children I work from home with on Wednesdays. We watch my niece and nephew for our frontline hero. My own children LOVE Wednesdays. It is the new Saturday because they don't have to do school work! Five is also the number of days of the week I am working.
4 - The number of girls laying in the master bedroom at bedtime listening to a chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The best part of our day.
3 - The number of my own children. It is harder to work from home with my three children than on the days we have five. It is also the number of Iced Capps I buy when I go through the Tim Horton's drive-thru (judge if you must). They freeze wonderfully. Thaw in the fridge overnight.
2 - The number of adults at home to care for our children. One making an income, one not. Both working hard. Also, the number of days I am not working in a week.
1 - The number of incomes we have been living on for the past seven months. My husband leaving work as a youth pastor to start something new was planned, the pulmonary embolism was not.
0 - The amount of money in our savings as we pay off some debt from teacher strikes, a furnace blowing and a fridge dying all at the same time. It is also the amount of patience we typically have left at the end of the day.
I share this only to say - you may have a different hand, but you are in good company with whatever you face.
