Tag: #COVID19

Best Benefit of COVID? Grown-up kid at home!

Mother-Daughter at Franklin Park Zoo Festival of Lights 2020

Do any of you have your adult children back at home with you due to the current pandemic? This could be a small population of people I guess, but I seem to get asked if the kids are home with my husband and I a lot. One child lives in South Korea and the pandemic is keeping him there. Another lives a few miles down the road, so he’s all set. Our youngest lost her job while living in another state and came home to live when this all began, last April.

What a wonderful gift it has been! Instead of always wondering what’s she doing, if she’s okay, or how she’s feeling, I know. It is so comforting to have that knowledge and makes me happy that my husband and I have this extra time with her. I am going to treasure this gift, focus on this bright light in the shadows of all the illness and fear. I am grateful to have her energy back in the house, her singing in our ears and her smile right when I enter a room! 

At least one of our grown-up kids is home again! This is hands-down one of the best bennies of COVID!

Unspoken Benefits of COVID Mask Wearing

-You can stick out your tongue at someone and they have no clue!

– No need for chapstick 

– Forgot to brush your teeth? No problem!

– No need for breath mints

– Less sunscreen 

– Built in napkin

– Wind protection

– Get carded at the bar

– No need to avoid peeps you don’t want to see

– Great for weight loss

– Built in tissue

What ideas come to your mind?

An Unexpected Adventure during COVID19

My husband is able to work outside the house during COVID19. He is a landscaper and can work independently without venturing near others. Since we cohabitate, we thought I’d get out of the house and help him out a little. An adventure…out of the house…freedom….air on my face…the warmth of the sun on my back….working as a team….in Mother Earth….ah….

We were moving along nicely around a client’s pool- trimming tall grasses raking and hauling them to the back of his truck. It felt great to be outside! I had planned to work on some properties this summer, so we had recently purchased some light equipment that I could use. I was excited to use my new leaf blower to get the remnants of the grasses away from the pool.

I whipped it out, started blowing and was having a great time, waving that wand around with a goofy grin on my face. Before I knew it, I felt myself tipping backward and an image flashed in my mind – Tinkerbell – waving her magic wand of fairy dust and tumbling in the air. That was me as I stepped backward into the pool, wand and all.

I quickly stood up, looked over my shoulder at my husband’s shocked face as he looked around a plant. I yelled, “Sorry,” popped back up and started blowing grass again, soaked from collarbone to toe.

I still had that goofy grin on my face as I finished my work, with the warm sun on my wet back and warm air drying my dripping face. It was as if my magic wand had sprinkled its own fairy dust! Who would’ve thought I’d be taking a swim in 50 degree weather at the beginning of April in Rhode Island! The surprise of the adventure, seen through fairy dust, kept a smile on my face all day long!

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