It’s not easy in this new world. Everything stresses me out or makes me anxious. I’m constantly on edge and judging everyone I can see. I judge them for not wearing a mask, or not wearing it correctly, for getting too close to me or someone else, for touching something - it all stresses me out.
But at the same time, it’s hard to hide at home forever. It’s summer, which means it’s easy to get outside, and we all know that’s safer than being inside. And since I believe we’re going to be fighting this virus for a while, we might as well take advantage of being outside while we can. Otherwise I’m going to regret it when winter hits.
So after reading about one of my favorite local farms and all the precautions they were taking, we decided to try it. We got there super early, and did everything we could to avoid people. Still, there were a few times I just wished I would swat people away who got just a bit too close to us.
The kids had so much fun, though. They wanted to see the animals so badly. They got to feed them and pet them and oh boy when G saw the real life sheep - well there’s no doubt that he’s my kid. He kept looking at us and pointing to the sheep and saying “hug? hug?” Then when Tom was holding him he would dive toward the pen saying “In! IN!”
We were feeding the bunnies at one point and all of a sudden I noticed E was looking a little sad. I asked him what was going on, and he goes “How come they get all the food? I want some food too!” in the saddest little voice. Okay, kid. You can have some food too.
Plus, they have some pretty great strawberry shortcake there, which is one of my weaknesses. It’s really weird to be all masked up and safe… until it’s time to eat. We tried to pick a table away from everyone (but people are stupid, of course, and kept gathering near us) and ate as quickly as we could. After that I was feeling a bit stressed, so we headed home, but I think the kids had a lot of fun. Maybe we’ll try it again some day?
Okay we’re going to ignore how tired Tom and I are and how never ending life seems, and pretend life is all candy corn and pumpkin spice instead, just like my coffee.
We’ve been indulging the kids and doing all the fall activities lately. We’ve made mummy brownies and bat cookies. We’ve painted decorations, carved pumpkins and made monsters with popsicle sticks, cotton ball ghosts and Halloween sand art crafts.