I HATE this pandemic. My daughter is coming up on 3 years old and has been mostly housebound since her second birthday. We used to take her to a little toddler playgroup every thursday, but that's out the window. My only friend here moved an hour and a half away and obviously took her daughter (who was Claire's closest and basically only friend) with her.

My husband took Claire to the park today and she was trailing after a 6yo girl with a braid calling her Elsa, but the girl kinda ignored her. Then there was a group of boys around Claire's age that were playing Mighty Pups (she loves that show) and when she tried to integrate, they just kinda ran off to play so she spent most of her time at the park playing alone. My husband went up and asked her if she was okay and she told him she was sad. When they got home and he told me that I almost started crying.

Later he mentioned that another girl had a little stuffed dog and she told Claire that she couldn't touch it because of Covid and when my husband asked her just now after her bath why she was sad at the park she said it was because she couldn't touch the toy, but I don't know if it was because he mentioned it recently or not.

I wish this stupid virus would go away. If it wasn't here I would have taken her to Tumble Tots almost every week (when my husband wasn't at work with the car) and she could have spent more time with kids and made some friendships. Argh!!!!!