So far, 2020 has been a very strange year. The year we had the pandemic. The pandemic to which all pandemics will be compared to in the future - COVID 19.
The US basically shut down in mid-March. Everything except essential businesses were closed. Schools were closed. It's been weird. No toilet paper anywhere and no haircuts for anyone.
My husband and I are both considered essential. He works at a hospital and I work as a teacher at a residential treatment center for teenage boys. While other jobs have had hours cut, have been delegated to work from home or been completely laid off, our jobs have gone on almost as before. It is a strange thing. I am grateful we have not had the financial struggles some families have had. At the same time, watching the news has been different for us.
Most of the news focuses on people finding new ways to live at home. People taking up new hobbies, people having to homeschool their kids, people getting lots of things done at home. For us, we just go through a normal week, every week.
Not that things aren't different. Job activities have changed to match different guidelines. For me, I approach every weekend as my quarantine opportunity. I think of all the things I can do since I can't go many places. I also really miss my granddaughter and my daughter (and my son-in-law a little). They are stuck on their army base with no one allowed on to visit and not able to go away either. A baby can change a lot in a couple of months. My daughter has also had to deal with some issues on her own. Thank God for FaceTime.
This year is definitely not the year I had hoped for when it began. But it has been a year to remember. Hopefully life will return to "normal" soon. Hopefully the spread will slow or cease. I don't know how it will affect the future. Will this virus return later this year? Is it something we will learn to "control"? Hopes are that we will adapt and learn from this experience. And life will go on.
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