Really Not That Bad

My husband and I have talked about it several times since COVID-19 hit the United States and we began to shelter at home, along with much of the rest of the world.   For us, it's not that bad.   We're incredibly fortunate that we are able to manage through this time and be able to feed our family as well as maintain reasonable normalcy at home for our children.   Our work as real estate agents has declined some, but not so much as you might think.   On the whole, though, this has been a nice respite for us.

My husband and I are social people, but we're also loners.   We like staying at home, don't go out to dinner or bars or movies or other events much in normal times.   "Homebodies" would be a good term to describe us.   We're always at home a lot and we're around each other a good bit.   We get along well, which is a great goodness considering how much we've been together over the last several months.

We have had things change, such as the children don't have their friends over, running around our house, making joyful messes.   For us as adults, this is a nice change.   We had Movie Night many Friday nights, which also has stopped.   And while we miss our friends, it's another event we're fine not having for now.  

Now that we're into summer, every day is a vacation day, although we have expectations on the children to do summer school work, daily reading and household chores—all of which are met with incredulity that we should expect them to do anything at all other than be summer bums.   We're holding firm though and they're getting used to it.

Mornings are nice and have been nice as a chance.  There is no hustle and bustle as we get up early to rush and get the children to school.   It's been and continues to be a much more relaxed lifestyle.   I haven't had a morning alarm set for a good while now.    The children get their own breakfasts lately, which is huge.   It's independence for them and makes mornings much more enjoyable for my husband and me.

As much as I want the COVID-19 danger and restrictions to go away and the pandemic to be behind us, I'm enjoying this time with our family at home.  It's a more laidback lifestyle.   My husband and I have been enjoying it in our own way.   It's a dangerous time and there is nothing more we'd love than to have this all over and things back to normal, but for now, we're making the most of it together as a family.

The Big Boy Tiny Girl Lack of Friends Update:  My children have been doing very well at home during COVID-19.  They're playing with each other a lot and don't get into that many fights.   There is a lot of annoying each other but they've gotten closer as siblings.   They miss their friends though.   They social distance play with two children who are live diagonal to us.   Our lots touch at one point in the back and it's a quick hop across the neighbor's yard to get to each other.   Having these two friends is making all the difference in the world for them socially.   I'm incredibly glad they have Rayan and Keira as friends during this extended time at home.