If you're a parent with school aged kids, this COVID wave can turn your life upside down

in the space of a day, or even a few hours.

This is what Charles Stella of Bloomfield, New Jersey lived through last week.

His oldest daughter is in third grade.

Sunday, afternoon, we got to meet him up in the school saying that they're closing the

school on Monday so that the staff can gather and come up with a plan.

Ugh, this better not mean more virtual learning, he tweeted with a stressed out emoji.

He's in a small house and he works from home so they're all on top of each other when

school is remote.

Anyway, that night before the school made a decision about remote learning, Stella was

talking to his wife.

She was feeling kind of sluggish all weekend, like just like tired, she had been napping,

so she's like, on Sunday night, I think it was like eight or nine o'clock at night.

She's like, maybe I should test myself as in case.

Her COVID rapid test said positive, a breakthrough case.

So his wife went into isolation, he slept on the couch and all last week, Charles Stella

was working from home and solo parenting, both his third grader and his younger daughter.

You know, since she's only four years old, she's not learning anything, she's kind of

bouncing her room to room, bothering my daughter while she's trying to learn.

Bigger for snacks every ten minutes.

The school eventually did decide to offer a virtual learning option, so his older daughter

won't miss any schoolwork, but Stella was staring down a pretty daunting to-do list.

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