An Almost Year in Quarantine



    March will be a full year in quarantine for me and my family aside from my husband leaving to go to work, which he was furloughed a one point so we are grateful that he did get his job back, and outings with a very specific circle of people in our families and in church. Church is virtual, I miss my Sunday hugs from those that I only saw on Sundays, I miss being able to get together with a bigger group of people because of our own underlining health issues and because the body count would be too high between the families. Sitting a a computer from 9 to 4 for work and then again from 5:30 to 9:30 for my college classes, not to mention for 2 hours once a week for ladies mtg, then once a week for 2 hours for church and then 2 hours or so for small group. It's a lot of computer time. I took every break that I could to just rest my eyes and not look at a screen unless I had to. I mean I didn't even record as much as I wanted to for my YouTube Channel. I'm over it but what was the good that came out of this April? The good that came out of this is that I grew in all my relationships, husband, kids, friends, family. This quarantine allowed me to slow down and be more reflective than ever about about what's important to me and my walk with God, what I still need to do to prepare for finishing my teaching certification and moving on to a master's and a doctorate, which if I read my college website right, I have to have 2 years in a grade level teaching position before I can start moving forward with the master's which sucks. I'd like to just continue through and not take a break because it's really hard going back to school for me after a break. Another good thing is that I had more fun with the videos that I did post for my TikTok and my YouTube which kept things fun for me and my boys and my family. So all wasn't bad at all, just poopy at times. For some maybe times were worse than other people, but things weren't horrible for me. Looking forward, I want to continue to focus on the good and make sure that I'm talking about the poopy times when they come instead of hiding it or only talking about it when things boil over because that's not healthy. How have you all been in this quarantine? 


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