My world has been turned upside down. When the global pandemic first reached the US we were on Spring Break and at the Faler Family Reunion up at the Gratitude Lodge cabin in Heber. It was announced that church was closing down, then school was shut down and everything else around me. I did not anticipate the severity or length of time this would entail. In my mind this was just an extended Spring Break and life would go back to normal... WRONG. After 2 weeks not only was school not resuming, I was still unemployed, and now I had to attempt to play "teacher". This honestly is something I never anticipated as a mom. I have always revered and respected my kids school teachers. When I go help in the classroom almost every single time I have thought to myself "I could never do that job" teachers are amazing. SO I was not surprised when playing teacher was a big struggle for me. I like doing fun things with my kids. I don't like being the mean one commanding school work. Thankfully I have very resilient children and we survived. We purchased another laptop for the kids to use and Mason was able to borrow a laptop from his school. My kids are probably not overnight genius' but I believe we did enough to keep the brain exercised and going. I tried to stick with a schedule and put as much fun in our day as I could. I'm hoping and praying that school returns in the fall.
All of that said, there is a lot I'm enjoying about social distancing. Our family outings and Sunshine therapy have been amazing. We have been going on lots of bike rides, hikes, "sleepovers" in the family room (or all on the bean bag haha), adopting pet turtles, reading, paddle boarding, and lots of weed pulling for our neighbor.
I'm so grateful for the amazing weather we had all of March and April.
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