Tag: COVID

Thoughts on the Pandemic

Posted on by Lauren Lane

Most of you all probably know that last week, I tested positive for COVID. Both of the kids and Nathan tested positive shortly after that. We have no idea who brought it home, although, I have my guess. And so began our quarantine. Yet again. We spent five months of 2020 in quarantine, and I honestly thought that after we were vaccinated in April of 2021, the pandemic would pretty much be over for us.

Ohhhh…what wishful thinking that turned out to be now looking back.

I’m writing this at the start of another week of quarantine. A full 14 days juggling all of the tasks and responsibilities, and, of course, keeping the kids alive and healthy.

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Bye Bye COVID

Posted on by Lauren Lane

It’s been well over a year since we all first heard of COVID-19. It’s been a bit over a year of quarantining/self-isolating/social-distancing. And late last week, Nathan and I were lucky enough to get our first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. I finally went to bed for the first time in over a year breathing a little easier. Knowing that we were on the path to not having to live in fear and anxiety of this virus.

This past year was truly unbelievable. If I hadn’t lived it, it would be hard to believe. As this chapter feels like it’s coming to an end, I wanted to chronicle here formally what this past year held for us as we navigated really hard decisions for our family, missed holidays and birthdays, bringing a new little boy into this world, and doing every day life so much different than we had ever done it before.

March 12, 2020: My work team packed up all of our work items, and left our client’s site for the last time. It would be the last time that we would be back on site with our client. This is the first weekend that we “social distance” as a family, but we still send Harrison to daycare the next week as we come to the realization that it may be better to have him home with us later that week.

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