We have been "sheltering" at home for almost 8 weeks. The kids have been fairing pretty well. They say the miss school and things if you ask them, but they don't ever mention it if you don't. With the except of the time we drove past the school and all 3 elementary school aged kids yelled out the window, "LET ME OUT! LET ME GO TO DVA!" which made me happy.
There were a few HUGE things we missed out on that I'm still grieving over.
1. Fair - girls worked really hard raising their rabbits and were looking forward to showing them at fair.
2. The city's youth theater play. Olivia and Abigail both got lead roles and were so excited.
3. Olivia's swim team and Shakespeare class/play.
4. Our trip to NJ in May.
Shakespeare will probably be rescheduled, and our trip to NJ will hopefully still happen later in the summer, but it's still disappointing.
I enjoy not having the craziness of having to get kids to school each morning, swim team every day, play practice, gymnastics, etc. In fact, I can't remember the last time I stressed about how I was going to be in 2 places at once, and having to ask someone for help with transporting my kids somewhere. But not having these things also makes me realize how important they were. They were things that brought enjoyment and gave us something to do, and work on. Hopefully I'll complain less, once we can get back to normal. Another plus has been that they've shortened the hours Aaron's pharmacy is open, so he's always home by bedtime now, even when he has to close. I wouldn't mind if they decide to keep these hours forever.
It has really warmed up over the last week or so, which has made it even harder. Fortunately things are starting to open and people are starting to feel comfortable having play dates again. Really the last few weeks my kids have spent more time playing video games and watching Netflix than anything else. And I struggle with that. On the one hand, we're in a global pandemic so why worry about things like screen time. On the other hand, when I look over and see all of my kids faces in a separate device, I can't help but feel like a terrible mother who's letting her children waste their childhoods on things that don't matter, instead of making memories of playing together.
Well now, Nora has joined me and it's a lot harder to write with a 3 year old asking me a million questions so I guess I'll wrap this up.
There were a few HUGE things we missed out on that I'm still grieving over.
1. Fair - girls worked really hard raising their rabbits and were looking forward to showing them at fair.
2. The city's youth theater play. Olivia and Abigail both got lead roles and were so excited.
3. Olivia's swim team and Shakespeare class/play.
4. Our trip to NJ in May.
Shakespeare will probably be rescheduled, and our trip to NJ will hopefully still happen later in the summer, but it's still disappointing.
I enjoy not having the craziness of having to get kids to school each morning, swim team every day, play practice, gymnastics, etc. In fact, I can't remember the last time I stressed about how I was going to be in 2 places at once, and having to ask someone for help with transporting my kids somewhere. But not having these things also makes me realize how important they were. They were things that brought enjoyment and gave us something to do, and work on. Hopefully I'll complain less, once we can get back to normal. Another plus has been that they've shortened the hours Aaron's pharmacy is open, so he's always home by bedtime now, even when he has to close. I wouldn't mind if they decide to keep these hours forever.
It has really warmed up over the last week or so, which has made it even harder. Fortunately things are starting to open and people are starting to feel comfortable having play dates again. Really the last few weeks my kids have spent more time playing video games and watching Netflix than anything else. And I struggle with that. On the one hand, we're in a global pandemic so why worry about things like screen time. On the other hand, when I look over and see all of my kids faces in a separate device, I can't help but feel like a terrible mother who's letting her children waste their childhoods on things that don't matter, instead of making memories of playing together.
Well now, Nora has joined me and it's a lot harder to write with a 3 year old asking me a million questions so I guess I'll wrap this up.
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