Missives from Wonderland

Gosh that sounds rough. I'm fortunately in a big enough place where my kids don't need to be in the same room as me when they need to make noise, because I've found it distracting when they are. I recall that when I was married and my ex and I had shared a study, with separate computers in the same room, I would tense up when we were both there at the same time, and that was just from his presence and fear of him looking over my shoulder at what I was doing. I imagine it would've been even worse if there was additional noise too.