May write more later, but today I basically sobbed about how difficult virtual learning has been for my daughter. Like I started crying about 1 minute into session and cried off and on throughout. For some reason, I apologized a couple times for crying, then was like, "I don't know why I'm apologizing." T was very empathetic and said how he felt like they were expecting too much out of his son as well (he's in the same school system, but in middle school vs. my D in elementary school). And that made me feel better, plus his saying that other parents he'd talked to also felt like they were expecting too much. Like they're expecting to do the same amount of teaching now as in a regular, in-person school year. When maybe that's not realistic.

Also talked some about my feeling, as Dr. T put it, "smothered" right now, being in the house with D and my husband pretty much all the time. He suggested I find ways to get out for a bit a few days a week, saying, "doctor's orders!" I said how I worried that stuff with Covid would never really go away. He said he wished he had something he could tell me to make me feel better. I said how I knew he didn't have a crystal ball. He said how people aren't built to handle something going on this long. And it feels like he's really struggling with it, too. He didn't have any magic answers for me. But the empathy really helped. And also just getting out all that I was feeling, the sadness and frustration.

I may write up other recent sessions in more detail, as I have time.