John,

Who was it that said "you have to laugh or else you'll cry"? Was it Ghandi? Marie Antoinette? Either way, it's especially relevant these days when -- if you're anything like me -- you're struggling to hold onto your job and/or patience while caring for young kids and older relatives -- all without leaving the house.

In other words, you're a sandwich. But what kind of sandwich are you? Take this quiz to find out!

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Don't worry, this isn't a literal question -- we're talking about the 'Sandwich Generation' -- which is not, as I once believed, a moniker for those of us born circa 1980, too young for Gen X but too old to self-identify as "Millennial," who spent the majority of our formative years eating Fluffernutters while watching The Price is Right.

No, the sandwich generation is not tethered to a particular decade but to a stage of life--one that's often defined by caregiving.

Take the quiz to find out which 'sandwich' best encapsulates your care situation! Illustrated by the brilliant New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake, it's designed to bring some much-needed levity to a real time of crisis.

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To be clear, you are officially in a sandwich once you are responsible for two distinct groups with unique needs -- children and seniors. Maybe, like me, you have young kids and also live above your aging, somewhat hypochondriacal mother, who texts you every single morning while you are elbow deep in diapers to assure you she is still alive.

Maybe your own kids are old enough to have their own kids, who are now in your care while both you and your children try to achieve the elusive work-life balance in the midst of a deadly pandemic (LOL!)

Or maybe your sandwich components aren't even relatives, but you care for them to earn a paycheck that will trickle down to your own family, whose needs you have so little time for that they might as well be the crumbs at the bottom of a discarded Doritos bag (OK, I'm taking this metaphor too far but I'm hungry, and also, based on my sleep schedule these past few months, possibly hallucinating!).

So which sandwich generation sandwich are you? Take the quiz now and share it with friends. I promise no matter your fillings, you're not alone in this.

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Love,

Una LaMarche
Author/mother/Grilled Me's

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