Back to the real world this month, but I wonder for how long.
We had a lovely two-week vacation for the holidays -- even Paul took quite a few of those days off of work. We visited my family the weekend before Christmas, had Paul's sister and her family over on Christmas Day, and mostly hung out at home each day in between and since. No big New Year's Eve bash, of course, but the kids were excited to stay up til midnight to watch the ball drop, no matter how many times we told them how anticlimactic it is!
But COVID continues to spread, and a number of Columbus City schools were cancelled for one or more days during the week after New Year's. Ours wasn't among them ... until last Friday. Earlier in the week, students at many schools were learning remotely, but on Friday classes were cancelled full-stop for everyone. I'm preparing myself for a last-minute call that could keep the kids home for days or weeks, and I check my phone for messages before I even get out of bed each morning.
Rapid tests are difficult to find -- I managed to snag two when I went to the library at opening last week, but they were out by early afternoon. Par for the course around here.
Sigh. So it is in the age of a pandemic. Who would have thought two years ago that we'd be right here today?
(My apologies! There was a different version of this post that I meant to publish last Tuesday, but I accidentally scheduled it for the wrong day!)
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