He also doesn't love how busy the kids are and wants them to have more time to actually get bored. To have lazy days.
He is in a perpetual loop of too much to do and not enough time because he's always driving someone somewhere for something.
So, ya, he's not struggling through the new reality. He's been working in my sitting room this week. He also thinks we're the only people around to build a cat room. I assured him we're not the only ones. With a separate entrance to the little outside deck and a little kitchen put in the new room it's just a few seconds from being a rentable apartment. Which we're not doing but it's a possibility and possibilities are good.