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Being at home all the time has an impact on our kids. They may not understand what is going on but they know things are different. While my son may not express it, he knows things have changed in life.
Some of the first impacts to be felt from the stay at home orders are the activities we do with our son. Weekly we have gone to the library for toddler story time. With all that cancelled until further notice we do not get to take him out. Thankfully we have a good collection of books that we are able to read for him at home. We even have some library books that the due dates have been extended during this time. The biggest loss for my son is not going to church. My son loves getting up on Sunday and getting ready for church. He likes getting dressed and grabbing a stuff toy for the journey. He looks forward to getting in the doors and seeing his friends and several of my friends as well. He looks forward to helping one of our members walk to the door at the end of service. With the stay at home orders our church has moved to an online setting. When we tell our son it is time for church he runs to the door looking for his shoes. He starts saying the names of some of the people that he knows at the church. Each week we have to explain to him that we are doing church in the living room. As the service starts he is able to yell the names of some people he sees on the screen. As a father I am proud to have a son that looks forward to going to church each week. One positive impact with being together at home is the fact I am always home. With the exceptions of grocery shopping or grabbing a meal after church, I am with him all day. Working from home as allowed my son and I to have more time together. I am able to have story time with him and help him get ready for bed. He is very happy to see daddy home everyday. However, he does not understand that while I am on the phone with one of my customers that he does need to be a little quite. My concern is that when this is all over and I return the office is that he will have a hard time with me leaving again each day to go to work. That is something we can pray about as it draws near so that he will understand. Even at two years old he seems to be very intelligent and understanding. Let me close with this, let us all take this time an invest into our children. They are only little once. Investing into them now can impact their entire life.
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With stay at home orders in effect, I found my working situation changing within hours. I am blessed and thankful that I work in a position that is deemed essential and that I am able to do so from home. My job is at a software company for car dealerships and I work in a support role. Car dealerships around the country are open and we are as well to serve them. I am extremely blessed to be working for the company I am with. Even before the stay at home orders the company made moves to protect employees. From testing remote work options to offering emergency use of PTO and not have it effect your already earned vacation time or sick days. The company asked anyone not feeling well to stay home and if those at risk or anyone else wanted to they can to. By the time we arrived to the stay at home order we all went home to work. The hours before the order went into effect I was on the phone with my supervisor. I had spent the previous day with a cough and it had not gone away by the time I woke up. He told me that there was equipment waiting for me at my desk for me to take home and setup a home office. Grabbing a mask, I quickly went into the office, avoided everyone, and grabbed the gear to take home. After a few hours of setup, I finally was able to take my first call for a customer and assist them in their issue.  Sitting at my desk waiting for the next call to come in. Working from home in a one bedroom apartment has its challenges. I first tried to setup in the storage closet. However, having storage containers all around you and outside the door was a little cramped and not so safe. After a week in there I moved my desk to the window in the living room.
How can you handle working in the living room with a toddler you may ask? Easy, I work an evening shift so when I start work he is usually taking a nap and he is in bed for the last few hours of my shift at night. There is only a four hour span in which he is awake while I am at work and one hour of that is a lunch break. The customers that do hear him don’t seem to mind and sometimes allows us to share a moment together about kids. My prayers go out to those that have lost their jobs during this crisis. May you find peace in this time. I also pray for those that are working and can not do so remotely. This includes our doctors and nurses, fireman and EMT, police officers, grocery store workers, truck drivers, mail men and women, the delivery drivers, and utility workers. I know there may be more to add to this list. I just thank you for all the work you are doing and I pray that you are your families remain safe and healthy. Many blessings everyone. My wife, son and I have been spending a lot of time together at home recently. The state of Ohio issued stay at home orders that went into effect on March 23, 2020 just before midnight. Since then we have stayed at home with the exception of going to the grocery store to get food supplies and taking a walk at the local park, when the weather is nice.
These five weeks have been a challenge for the family. There are many adjustments that had to be made. We have seen plans cancelled, we have had to change how we went about our daily lives. However, these five weeks and counting have been a blessing. We have grown and learned so much about each other. I believe that our family will come out of this stronger and closer to each other. Over the next several posts I wanted to share with you about the different areas in our life that have been impacted. Topics will include work, children, spouse, and God to name a few. And if my wife and I come up with more ideas we will be sure to write about them. Stay safe everyone. |
Joshua Robinson
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