I could wax poetic about The Doors, but that’s not what this post is about 🙂

Contrary to all the wanting-to-be-helpful-but-actually-aren’t articles telling you that you should be learning a new language or new hobby, or learning to cook like Julia Child, I don’t agree with most of these writings and feel that people just aren’t in the head space to adequately do these things. Myself included. For someone who is a voracious bookworm, I am having a hard time reading more than two sentences in a novel before my mind just shuts down.

It is really hard to concentrate on anything, really.

But when I am not freaking out over the news or freaking out over finances or freaking out over anything at this point, I am trying to think about what is next. After the chaos and craziness that is “quarantine life”, what is the ever after?

What happens after we break on through to the other side?

I don’t have all the answers to that question and frankly I don’t think anyone does. But things are going to be different. How these differences impinge on our every day lives is something we will have to consider. Sure, some things will go back to normal but lives have been irrevocably altered. Systems and ways of living have been broken and we will have to work at putting it all back together.

But I believe there is also an opportunity here to do some serious thinking. In between the news updates, bread baking, and toilet paper shopping, we need to think about what we want our lives to look like going forward. Things will shift and it is up to us to shift our lives in the right directions.

Have you found that what you thought was important before all this happened is suddenly not so important anymore? Those things you put off because of time, could you find time once quarantine life is over to actually do them?

What do you want your life to look like?

If this whole pandemic thing has taught us anything besides the obvious, is that life is indeed short. We are not promised anything. We have been given the gift of time right now and I believe that we can come out of all this stronger.

Life is a gift my friends. Lets cheer one another on and love hard.

We are all in this together 🙂

No beating around the bush here with pretty words. I am just laying it out there.

My husband lost his job. The company he worked for laid off a bunch of people due to what is currently going on in our country, and his name was on the list, so… here we are.

I know that our situation is not unique. If you see the stats posted every week in the news, there are unprecedented numbers of Americans filing for unemployment. Many families just like mine, trying to navigate these uncertain times.

Since our state has been in lockdown, my emotions have been all over the place. California has shut down their schools for almost 4 weeks now and everything feels very apocalyptical every time one turns on the news.

We are all in the same scary boat.

Some days are easier than others and I know every day won’t be filled with anxiety. Treading water won’t always be the M.O.

All this to say, hang in there everyone. You are doing the best you can. We are all doing the best we can.

And for right now, that’s enough.