My anniversary is coming, and I have yet to receive anything from my wife. I know, I know, I’m terrible! But how do you celebrate a full year of living with the Coronavirus?
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I think it’s not a good idea to invite friends over for a party.
Should I give my wife a mask? Sweet pants? Bleach?
Can you believe we’re all living in a pandemic for a whole year? That’s right, we only did weird things with friends 12 months ago like shake each other, or hug, or meet them for dinner without fear of people dying.
Just one year. It’s amazing how real time is not fly past.
It may have been an exhausting twelve months, but I want to focus for a moment on the positive.
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Okay, enough of that.
No, really, for the past 12 months it has been interesting, but I’m lying if I did not admit that I learned a few things:
- I found out that I had been cooking for my family every night for the past year, and that I was still not a good cook.
- I discovered that if I did not eat a large block of cheese at midnight and drink half a bottle of bourbon, I would not become horrible the next morning. I realize I need to keep discovering that lesson.
- I have discovered that taking online groceries takes longer than shopping in person.
- I’ve learned that using talk-to-text is the most effective way to get on someone’s nerves.
- And finally, and most importantly, after spending just about every moment of every day of the last twelve months with my five kids, I learned that I’m no longer afraid of Harry Chapin’s song, “Cat’s in the Cradle”:
“When you get home, Dad?”
‘I do not know when
But then we get together
You know that you will have a good time. ‘
Happy birthday, everyone!
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Story produced by Julie Kracov. Editor: Chad Cardin. Illustrations: Mitch Butler.
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