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Wednesday
Apr012020

Day Seventeen

The good news is that for me, work is very much so the same. It's weird not being able to haunt the people I need when I need them in person, but mostly it's fine. Apparently I'm just as intimidating via web call as I am in person? We'll pretend that's what it is.

My new co-worker, though. She's ... not cooperative.

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Do not be fooled by that cute face. Either of those cute faces, even. We've always called Penny a "Tibetan Terror" instead of "Tibetan Terrier" because she's forever going to be a toddler who spends her days looking for rules to break. Funny thing, that, because now there's two rule breakers in the house. It's very possible that Penny is the one who trained Mila.

Oh, Mila. Geniunely she has been doing really well for the past two weeks. She has zero interest in this whole homeschool thing we're now trying to do, but she's not wrong when she says, "I want to go to school but not to do the work. I just want to see my friends."

I feel that way about a lot of things right now.

But, after a little over two weeks of genuinely being awesome about having her world turned upside-down, Mila is now broken. Today was the day that broke her. I think we all have different tolerances for the chaos and uncertainty around us, and each of us will have a really bad day at some point if we haven't already, but TODAY was Mila's day. She was a MESS.

There were a lot of tears and a lot of screaming and from where Mila was sitting, everything was terrible. We started the day with her demanding to watch a very specific episode of My Little Ponies. It was the episode where "they were looking for something," which is great because out of the 210 episodes available On Demand, I think that's the plot of EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN ONE, KID. Mila kept yelling and being crazed about it, but eventually I just walked away and let her deal with her feelings in peace. Which, by the way, works really well with Mila. She is very easily distracted when she doesn't have someone to throw her feelings at.

The hour or so after that meldown was her peak for the day. It was all downhill from there.

Right up until a little something changed her day.

The girls' cheer program started doing practices via Zoom today. Mila has had classes for dance and LOVED them, so I figured cheer would also go well. It went more than well. It completely changed her entire outlook on life. She bounced through the entire thing and grinned from ear-to-ear and followed directions and gave it every ounce of effort she had. And then some.

Cheer made her day better. Freakin' cheer.

I'm so definitely going to end up with two cheerleaders. UGH.

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