2020 In Review
This was a hard year. A year I don’t particularly care to recap. So I won’t… truly. But at some point my memories will become hazy (or traumatically repressed!) and I’ll wonder. Here’s a little look at our 2020:
We’ve largely been home–with extreme, only as necessary, regulations on where we’ll go out and who is allowed in–for 5 of the 12 months this year.
Several significant family members have yet to meet A in person. He’s 1 now. Walking and babbling and cutting teeth at a rapid rate. It’s heartbreaking to think about family moments that have been missed.
We did not have any major plans, milestones or moments canceled. We had a newborn at home, so 2020 was not a year we planned to be out and about much anyway. A friend’s May wedding we were invited to was canceled. The boys’ birthdays were small events held at home. We celebrated all the major winter holidays at home just the four of us–and we did ok.
We never ran out of toilet paper, but we couldn’t always find it when we wanted it.
I fell prey to the trend of at-home bread-making. Thankfully I had enough yeast in my cupboard considering the stores were all out, and thankfully I made great bread that everyone ate quickly and equally sparing me from sad night-time bread binges.
We watched Tiger King, and the Fyre Festival documentary, and the Bill Gates series, Unorthodox, The Pharmacist, Selling Sunset, Queer Eye, Sweet Magnolias, The Circle, Indian Matchmaking, Lenox Hill, Chef's Table, so so much Great British Baking Show, the Challenger Series, Emily in Paris, Schitt's Creek, The Queen's Gambit, A Year In Space, The Repair Shop, and good God a lot of CoComelon (a kid's show).
We were financially impacted with my job significantly cutting all employees’ hours/pay for months and conducting layoffs (which I was spared from) before restoring us back to full-time.
We did not buy a Peleton, but I did build the boys a rock climbing wall.
We had 2 members of our household tested for COVID. One for showing symptoms, one for exposure, both thankfully came back negative.
We’ve done the right thing for our family, even when it’s been hard, even when we didn’t want to, the entire year. And while it’s been really hard, it’s kept us and our loved ones healthy and safe, and that’s a happy note worth closing a year on.
We’ve largely been home–with extreme, only as necessary, regulations on where we’ll go out and who is allowed in–for 5 of the 12 months this year.
Several significant family members have yet to meet A in person. He’s 1 now. Walking and babbling and cutting teeth at a rapid rate. It’s heartbreaking to think about family moments that have been missed.
We did not have any major plans, milestones or moments canceled. We had a newborn at home, so 2020 was not a year we planned to be out and about much anyway. A friend’s May wedding we were invited to was canceled. The boys’ birthdays were small events held at home. We celebrated all the major winter holidays at home just the four of us–and we did ok.
We never ran out of toilet paper, but we couldn’t always find it when we wanted it.
I fell prey to the trend of at-home bread-making. Thankfully I had enough yeast in my cupboard considering the stores were all out, and thankfully I made great bread that everyone ate quickly and equally sparing me from sad night-time bread binges.
We watched Tiger King, and the Fyre Festival documentary, and the Bill Gates series, Unorthodox, The Pharmacist, Selling Sunset, Queer Eye, Sweet Magnolias, The Circle, Indian Matchmaking, Lenox Hill, Chef's Table, so so much Great British Baking Show, the Challenger Series, Emily in Paris, Schitt's Creek, The Queen's Gambit, A Year In Space, The Repair Shop, and good God a lot of CoComelon (a kid's show).
We were financially impacted with my job significantly cutting all employees’ hours/pay for months and conducting layoffs (which I was spared from) before restoring us back to full-time.
We did not buy a Peleton, but I did build the boys a rock climbing wall.
We had 2 members of our household tested for COVID. One for showing symptoms, one for exposure, both thankfully came back negative.
We’ve done the right thing for our family, even when it’s been hard, even when we didn’t want to, the entire year. And while it’s been really hard, it’s kept us and our loved ones healthy and safe, and that’s a happy note worth closing a year on.