It’s been a couple weeks now since we’ve been social distancing. It’s taken some adjustment, but we’re starting to settle into the feeling of it all now. Mark is working from home, I’m no longer teaching (the gyms are closed), and the girls are now dialed into Distance Learning as of this week. While I really miss life as it was before COVID-19, I try not to think about all the things we’re missing too much. Since it’s out of our control, there’s not much we can do but accept the situation we’re in and try to make the best of it one day at a time. The girls do miss their sports, activities, friends, school, and family, but we’ve been doing out best to make some fun in the new life of social distancing.
Mark has been taking the girls out fishing, and for the most part, they’ve had success catching fish. Our neighborhood has several ponds where they can go and keep their distance from others, so that has been a nice diversion. It helps us to get outside as much as we can. Sometimes the girls and I will go on jogs, and every day we’re at least getting out to fish, play, jog, or walk. Cayenne has been living her best life (as all dogs, I’m sure) with the family at home. She’s constantly surrounded by people and attention, and she’s more than happy to have this go on forever! The only thing she doesn’t like is when we work on puzzles. Because she can’t see what we’re doing at the table, she’s not a part, and nobody is paying attention to her, she has been whinining or acting out when we do puzzles. Such a high maintance dog, this one!
One of the fun activities that the girls did was a baking challenge. Given just the items we had in the house, they had to make something creative and tasty. Mark and I were the “judges” and got to take the first crack at taste testing the creations. Nina made brownie s’mores cupcakes, and Lyla made brownie chocolate bundt cakes with a small side of ice cream. While our waisteline can’t take too many of these type of challenges, they certainly were fun and tasty!
Other than walks and jogs, we have been playing badminton and volleyball in the back yard. One sad thing about the pandemic hitting in spring is that we’re not able to venture out and do/see all the spring things we’d like, however I’m thankful that this isn’t hitting in the dead of winter when it’s hard to spend much time outside. Having the sun shining, some warm days, and longer daylight certainly helps lift my spirits even when we’re staying home.
So, while the pictures aren’t great (because I took them all with my phone), and the activities aren’t terribly exciting, it still feels good to keep track of our days right now. Hopefully someday in in the not-so-long future, we’ll be out of this time of isolation, and when we are, I think we’ll appreciate all the activities, sports, connections, outings, etc. that we took for granted in the past. In the meantime, we’ll do our best to enjoy today, our health, our family, and make the most of the opportunities we’re given.
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