While the “stay at home” order rolls on, sadly life at home is becoming the new normal. It doesn’t feel as strange to be home all day. That’s not to say I like it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m very very excited for the day when we get back to normal again, but I guess after a month of this routine, it feels like what we expect versus something brand new. The kids are settling into “Distance Learning” and we continue to be thankful that it’s spring. The ability to get outside to enjoy some fresh air, take walks, or do activity are sanity for everyone.
Lyla should be in the prime time of the spring soccer season right now. While her coach has been active in communicating with the girls and giving them “assignments” to work on, she/we miss seeing all the girls in person. We miss that interaction and watching them play together on the weekends. We’re not sure if there will be any official soccer or not before the fall season, but we’re hopeful the team will be able to reconnect again.
Nina’s outdoor track season may also likely be scrapped. We’ve heard from the club that they are hopeful to have some sort of outdoor season, but with most (if not all) facilities, school, etc. off limits through the first part of June, that may be unlikely. She enjoys skateboarding for fun, and she’s been working out with her homemade hurdles some, and jogging some, but she really misses the chance to work on high jump. At her last meet, she got her PR of 4’8” in high jump and was so looking forward to continuing to build on that, but that meet was the last opportunity she had. Sadly, everything shut down right after. So, like Lyla’s situation, we’d love to see the track team back together again this season, but everything in the world is to be determined at this point, so we’ll just wait and see.
Cayenne is still loving pandemic life. She is happy to have us all home all day and is loving the walks and time outside or inside with the family. As long as she’s getting attention, she doesn’t really care what else is happening in life!
We did get to see the beautiful Pink Moon Supermoon at the end of the first week of April. It was the closest that the moon would be to earth, and it was easily the most first-hand detail I’ve ever been able to see of the moon. It was beautiful!
When we are stuck inside, we’ve managed to crank out a couple puzzles. I would definitely not consider us “puzzle people” before this whole pandemic, but at the start of it when we got wind that we’d be spending a lot of time at home, I ordered a couple neat looking puzzles. We had to wait awhile for them to be delivered (seems I wasn’t the only one with this idea), but after completing an old 750 piece dog puzzle that the girls had on hand, we graduated to the 1000 piece Mustang puzzle, and followed that up with our first 2000 piece Route 66 puzzle. That one was a ton of fun, and we have all really enjoyed having something to work on together. We have one more 1000 piece puzzle to complete, then I guess we’ll have to start back at the beginning and do them all over again.
I snapped with picture with my phone as Nina was chatting with me and scooting back and forth on her skateboard, but I think it fits her perfectly. It’s hard to believe that when this girl heads back to school, it’s going to be to high school! That thought just blows my mind (and scares me a bit as well)! I’m sad that there will be so many things she’ll miss out on to close out her 8th grade year. Her class had a fun trip to Kings Dominion planned for next week, they had their Independence High School tour day to look forward to, the 8th grade awards, and as an Ambassador, she got to induct the next round of kids for next year’s 8th Grade Ambassadors, etc. While there are many things she is bummed to miss out on, my hope is that things will have returned to normal by the start of school in the fall, and all the kids can at least get a fresh start into the new school year.
However, most importantly, we are all heathy and safe at the moment, and that is the most important thing, so we’ll try our best to let go of what we can’t control and try to make the best of this situation and the time we have.
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