A picture of the new normal.

This picture sums up a lot about this crazy season...the family calendar, totally erased in March. And hasn’t been changed to April bc there’s nothing to add, and it’s just not really a priority to fill in empty spaces. (And lets be real, I stopped looking up at it a few weeks ago, and just now realized it was still on March).

And where backpacks used to hang, now hang bike helmets and ball caps, for the million times a day I make everyone go outside to get out some energy during this quarantine.

I actually kind of love the helmets hanging there. But at the same time, it represents the new normal, which has taken a LOT of adjustment on all our parts. This is such a weird season, am I right? Appreciation for change, yet also having to deal with the angst that change can bring. It’s a strange balance/non-balance for me, if that even makes sense, lol.

There are a lot of days that seem totally overwhelming, mixed in with some really sweet moments that would not have happened had it not been for all this.

At least for this day, for this HOUR (because it truly changes by the minute around here with 6 different souls in the house!)...I am going to do my best to focus on those.

Finally gonna stop wishing for backpacks and old routines, and appreciate the helmets and the blank calendars.