This past spring of 2020 marks a new era for everyone as the COVID pandemic hit the U.S. resulting in major changes in everything! Waterpolo season shut down after only 3 gamedays. Ballet company competitions cancelled, prom cancelled, end of year recital cancelled, confirmation sacrament cancelled, and all masses cancelled. We dressed up and watched Easter mass live from the Dallas cathedral. Jillian and I attended a friend's wedding this past January (all other family at a waterpolo tournament in Houston.) Thank goodness she chose January instead of a March wedding. After recovering over the many disappointments, we have enjoyed our family time together. Matt and I continue to work as well as our teens. My work has changed tremendously as they are not allowing visitors in the NICU. Only 1 parent. Very hard to tell these parents when mom gets discharged from hospital, only one can come up to visit. As nurses we are having to wear googles/face shields with patient care and masks at all times. We have been blessed not to have been exposed thus far (that we know of.) We, however, did get some good news: Ava was one of 16 dental hygiene students selected into the program at Collin College. She will do a dual with Wichita State University all online for her bachelors. Jillian was invited into a ballet company called Vivace and is still waiting on the decision from the director to place her en pointe. Hopefully, she'll find out soon. Rachael was invited back to her ballet company, Capriccio as a 1st corps member. Nutcracker tryouts are happening soon. Concerns of course whether there will be a show or not fill our minds, but we must prepare in case. Many changes with how kids finished out the school year brought many people reaching out to me with help in homeschooling. As I try to explain to people, that what they are having to do with the online learning set up through the school district is NOT true homeschooling and not at all what I do. Even the kids co-ops and dual credit college classes were changed to an online format. We all have been effected by this!
Anyone else opens their kid's mail to see if they got accepted -just me? (some of us needed to know how our evening was going to play out)
A visit from the Our Lady of Fatima Statue that travels throughout the world in order to spread her message from the 1917 apparitions to the 3 shepherd children in Portugal.
Just because we all happened to coordinate our outfits for rehearsal
Happy 17th bday to Matthew (quarantine style) - just us
New daily PPE wear for patient care - ugh!
Watching mass live online for Easter
some are not a fan of online classes and then some are - covid support kitty
When you are quarantined from your friends and siblings are all busy you round up your best action figures/ stuffies for a challenging board game.
