Well, this is a first. My mood is actually happy.

H is able to work from home Tues/Thurs now. He teaches a face-to-face class, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Because the commute from here is very long, 1.5 hr if there is not any traffic, he has figured he can work on his other course at home, which is an online class. The trade-off is he does work very late on Mondays & Wednesdays, Fridays, it depends. We are hopeful his 1 yr. visiting professorship will be renewed or turned into a permanent professorship.

At any rate, it has given us a lot more time to spend together as a couple. We don't feel comfortable leaving our daughter home alone for long, and we don't have family easily close by. And 11 year olds get too curious for their own good, or develop insomnia and/or turn into absolute night owls. It's been a change, but a good one for me & my marriage too