I can not believe it has been a year. A year where everything changed. School, daily life in general. Is this year better than last year? I think hope it is. The initial shock has worn off & this is the new normal.
A year ago, on Tuesday, March 10, we brought our Jeep & we traded in the white Ford Explorer. A year paid on it! (I wrote this up prior to the car accident). On Thursday, March 12, our kids went to school for the last year that school year. On Thursday, I was at Ethan's school taking what photos I could for the yearbook. I was up, down, up, down, and everywhere in between to get those photos we needed. My yearbook partner was there, too. Friday, March 13, was a planned vacation day. The kids never went back that school year. I think we received our yearbooks in October for Ethan's school.
At the beginning of the pandemic, I was busy trying to get the yearbook all done before our deadline & making sure the kids did their school work online. A school year I couldn't wait to end!!
I am reading what I wrote last year. Back in May 2020, I said I could not stand wearing a mask. Since then, I have made my own masks & I can now say I can stand to wear them. I have made masks for Ashleigh & Ethan. For Noah, I have brought him some since he does not like the way my masks are.
For this school year, I kept track of everything in my datebook because things changed so much. I also kept track of everything in posts called Covid19: Part & the links are:
(I changed the titles so the links won't mix the new titles.)
Noah & I were talking about his grades. That he needed to get them up. I was not critical but worried. Noah said that I have no idea what it is like to be a kid during this pandemic. Learning in google classroom. That I have never had to learn through a computer and through google classroom. Yes to all of that. I can not argue with him about that. He is right. I have no idea what he or his siblings are going through. The isolation he must feel from school and friends. Yes, we have allowed him to hang out with his friends at the mall, but it wasn't until our community transmission levels were lowered. We have been worried about their mental health during this time. We do not know how this pandemic is going to affect them. What are they going to remember from this time?
In the last year, I think the 5 of us have become closer. Ethan & I try to watch a movie or a show weekly together. We just started watching
Resident Alien (Syfy Wedn 10p) & we finished the 3 seasons of Cobra Kai (Netflix). Noah got his permit in September so right now we are working on getting his hours (65 hours in PA). He has a year from September 19, 2020, to take the driving test. (This is another post about Noah's driving.)
It seems like life is getting back a little bit to being normal. What is normal? Some of the restrictions are being lifted. We can travel out of state now. I am not sure what the others are. Ashleigh & Noah are back in school in person 4 days a week with Friday being at home. Ethan is back in school in person 5 days a week.
Melissa
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