I feel bad saying how stressful this year has been because we have been SO SO lucky. We haven't lost anyone to COVID19. We've all stayed healthy. Both Bob and I can work from home. My work is flexible so I can make sure the kids are taken care of. We have everything we need. We can afford grocery deliveries and Chromebooks for the kids so they can do remote learning. BUT it has still been the most stressful year of my life. The uncertainty and the magnitude of the loss of our regular life has had my stomach tied up in knots since March. I'm ready for the part where it's all over and we can't believe how crazy everything used to be! And on top of pandemic stress, the stress of having an insane, incompetent president who doesn't think he has to be president of "blue" states, who has done very little to show any leadership in the face of this massive crisis, has made my blood pressure feel as though it was on the verge of exploding for MONTHS. And then we had an election. And that was stressful too. (see above: "insane" president and add "violence-inciting"). And though everyone told us that it would take a while to count all the mail-in ballots, it was still unnerving to wait with so much riding on this election. And then on Saturday, November 7, four days after the election was held, the election was finally called for Joe Biden. And if an entire city could breathe a sigh of relief, that's what this day felt like.
It was warm for late fall, so we took a bike ride from Constitution Beach to East Boston, had lunch at Italian Express, and then biked back as the sun was setting.
Even the sunset felt like a celebration. Here's hoping that the worst of this pandemic is behind us and better days are coming soon.
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