A toast to the COVID-weary families out there still doing this after almost two years❤️
December 3, 2021Last weekend, we walked over to a park near us where a tree was about to be lit, because as you already know here in month #21 of this thing, anyI looked around as we stood there, at all of the rest of us, and actually said out loud to my people, “Ohhhhhhhh. It’s not just us.” Because all the parents with a kiddo under five years old just looked So. Effing. Exhausted.
We all looked a lonely kind of tired, standing there masked and cold and six feet apart, half a block away from restaurants where adults were sharing a meal and a bevvy and breathing together in the warm inside. And if you’re globally conscious on top of it, you’re also mad at yourself for feeling sorry for yourself, because for crying out loud, you live in a country that’s 80+% vaccinated with free access to healthcare, and here you are depressed about your, and that your kid hasn’t been to a trampoline park in two years, and about your one swollen eyelid that looked a hundred years younger two years ago.
Maybe you jumped into spring of 2020 with all the energy of a team player determined to get their family through a crisis and come out the other end of it still believing in magic and feeling the sunshine. And now here you are,than when Italy was singing on balconies and Toronto was banging cookware on porches, and when the path you were walking felt more shared.
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