By Soo Youn, Illustration: Washington Post/iStock, November 10, 2021
Tuesday was the first day in more than a month that Eileen Funke, 43, had both of her children in school and was feeling well enough herself to get anything done. A Slinky of sickness had uncoiled between her 7-year-old daughter, her 3-year-old son and herself with the colds that have been circulating through her kids’ two schools in Santa Monica, Calif.
But things were looking up: Her daughter had just gotten her first coronavirus vaccine shot, and with both of them in school, Funke could turn to the tasks to do around the house and errands to run in the scant hours she had between drop-offs and pickups.
Still, Funke knew better than to bank on hope that this ephemeral calm could be her new normal. Even with the promise of a future normalcy, she said, she hasn’t been able to consider when she will go back to work.
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