
I can’t believe it’s December tomorrow! 2020 cannot end soon enough and even though the world wide pandemic rages on, with cases and deaths rampant, we are all praying for a vaccine to come out and save us in 2021.
Hard to believe just a year ago we were all looking forward to a brand new decade, and all the fresh starts that a new year brings. Everyone was saying “this is 2020” in their best Barbara Walters voice and we were in Florida anxiously awaiting our daughter’s visit at Christmas.
Since then, numbers have spiked, toilet paper has been hoarded, families have been separated, people have set up desks and worked from home, people have lost their jobs, people have lost their restaurants/stores/businesses and people have died. I remember watching the TODAY show in late January or February and they were reporting about a place in China where there had been several people sick and dying. Hoda and Savannah told us there was no cause for concern. A month later our children’s March Break trip to Florida to see us was cancelled and our Prime Minister told us to get home. We listened. We listened out of safety for ourselves, our families, friends and fellow citizens of the world. We quarantined ourselves, we wore masks when we finally got them, we only went out for food and necessities. We watched as people fought the world governments, and refused to wear masks and stay home. We watched as families who attended concerts, weddings and funerals, got sick and, in many cases, died. In the 1940’s our parents went to war to protect us, and we can’t even stay home to save ourselves.
In these dark, dismal days, there are joyful things happening though. Babies are coming into the world, like our great grand niece in the fall; families are seeing each other in their bubble, people are getting married and their friends/family are joining via Zoom calls, people are reading more, starting hobbies like knitting/cross stitch, homes are being cleaned and organized like never before and I spent a blissful hour this weekend watching my 7 year old granddaughter and 4 year old grandson decorate sugar cookies we made.
We don’t know when we can begin our nomadic lifestyle again, but we are safe, we are healthy, we have a healthy family and we all are looking forward to a New Year.
Christmas will look a whole lot different this year. For us the snow we see falling won’t be made of soap powder, and the decorations will be less grand than the ones Disney World and SeaWorld put up, but our family and I certainly hope, you and your families will be safe and healthy.
Safe non-travels,
Happy Holidays,
Lynne and John