We are still carrying on with isolating despite Ontario opening up a bit. Just not ready.
Wife goes back next week after an 18 month maternity leave. She's at big 5 bank so no toxic stuff there, pretty great work life balance.
I decided to take a long shot and request an unpaid leave for the school yr (I'm a grade 5 teacher) and it was approved. We just were not comfortable with how daycare was lining up. Wife will be WFH for a while but she couldn't juggle the boy too. We saw it as an opportunity from all this chaos to be with my son for a yr.
We're lucky is all. Have some friends going through tough times, one lost their biz. Also have 3 friends expecting babies in next few weeks and it's not been easy to prepare for that in C-19. We all just keep pressing on I suppose.