these are certainly strange times. our little family was already adjusting to a temporary new normal as we were spending much of our time in st. louis helping my mom through chemo, and then everything changed. for a time the news was shifting significantly hour by hour. schools and universities were closing. professional and collegiate sports cancelled. the number of people permitted to gather in one place started dropping and didn't stop. it all happened so fast.
we didn't know what we were getting into. no one did. i was especially nervous about my mom contracting covid with her weakened immune system. we didn't eat any outside food for two solid months, not even takeout. we wore masks to the grocery store, where we sometimes had to wait in line to get in. many shelves were empty and the toilet paper aisle was always bare. methodically wiping down each grocery item as it was unpacked was a chore. we went exactly nowhere else.
time had almost no meaning as the days blurred together, but there was still good. there were things that brought joy in the midst of so much uncertainty. these are some of those things:
- daily walks with jack [and in an ideal spot no less]
- lakeland lunch zooms
- lots of jigsaw puzzles
- jack's falling off the chair video
- lakeland's easter benediction
- donald playing with jack over facetime
- the parks & rec special
- mom's birthday parade
- the marco polo app
- colt clark & the quarantine kids
- a family size package of original chips ahoy cookies
