COVID19

As of today, we've been self-quarantining or social distancing for four weeks. Life as we knew it has been cancelled for the foreseeable future. It's important to me to document this time, and I'm going to go back and add photos from each week but with the hindsight of four weeks of living in this bizarre, terrifying (yet simultaneously boring!) time I just wanted to write a few thoughts. We're all fine. I'm grateful that Bob can work from home, that we have devices that allow the kids to school from home and the means to have groceries and anything else we need delivered. I've never lived though anything like this. 9/11 was scary, but it still felt a little distant from my life and also it was a finite event. It had long lasting effects, but it happened and then it was over. It's becoming more and more difficult to imagine how this pandemic will end, when things will ever feel normal again. At the same time, it's hard to feel too sad about about the life events we're missing (soccer games, dance recitals, social gatherings) when the future is so uncertain and there could be really big losses ahead for us and lots of economic uncertainty. So, for the time being we're just trying not to think too much about the future. We take it one day at a time. Try to stick to a schedule, but also be flexible when we need to be. Take a walk every day and find something beautiful to look at. Enjoy the lack of rushing, and dinner together every night and plenty of time for TV. And just hoping that this passes soon and that on the other side of it, everyone we care about is still healthy.