You know when you’re really frustrated and you’ve told the kids to brush their teeth for the fourth time and you watch as one of them wipes the excess toothpaste from their toothbrush onto a freshly laundered, white, hand towel and the blue toothpaste smear is like a glowing mutation in the room and when you ask them why they did it they say, “Oh, I didn’t” and you say, “Oh, but I just saw you” and the blue toothpaste is dripping down their chin?

Then you hear one sibling teaching their younger sister a cheer using pom poms made of shredded garbage bags but the shouting is just a series of piercing squeals and instead of uplifting and inspirational sayings like “Go Team!” she is spelling out the word “quarantine” and you have no idea why and she’s spelling it out like this, “Gimme a ‘Q’!” and it’s driving you crazy so you have a Mommy-meltdown and threaten to take away the pom-poms but in that moment, you can’t remember what they’re called so you yell, “If you don’t stop it and get into bed, I’m taking away those bag-shakers!”

 
And then the kids all laugh at you?

 
I’m just asking or a friend.