we're living in a weird limbo over here. our house is beginning to be packed into boxes and we have less than 20 days until we close on our new home. with the state of covid this year, christmas decor is going up much earlier all around town- everyone is so ready for the joy and peace that comes with the season. our girls are still in school; however, something shifted this week and covid numbers started to skyrocket in the midwest. we opted out of basketball this season, which was crushing, tear-filled news for lucy. an indoor, non-masked contact winter sport during the height of numbers wasn't a risk we felt comfortable taking alongside seeing our parents for the holidays. a good, hard lesson in benefitting the greater good and looking beyond ourselves... but man, so hard to see something your child absolutely loves and looks forward to all year be taken away after so much else these past 8 months.
we've made an impressive dent in our christmas shopping- hoping to have our gifts wrapped up pretty before we move. it made for a rousing afternoon when we pulled in from school pickup to find that the barbie dreamhouse camper eloise had written to santa asking for had been delivered... from amazon... in an exposed box. we quickly explained that santa left a very specific note telling us that in the event of another shutdown, the elves are working far ahead of schedule. in 2020, anything goes, including being asked 100+ times where the camper is now hiding.
we're praying for an easily accessible vaccine that will control covid's transmission and allow us to see my gramma and my sister's family, allow artists and performers the opportunity to perform again, allow children to attend school safely without masks and without fear of infecting their teachers. in the meantime, we're all doing our best to take life one day at a time. tomorrow will worry about itself. each day has enough trouble of its own. and we've found so much beauty in life's simple moments this year that otherwise may have been overlooked while hurrying from one big moment to the next.
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