We made it

EDIT:  I wrote this two days ago, but forgot to hit publish...indicative of how crazy life has been!

We made it through this school year.  It was a year unlike any other, although the end of beginning to show a return to normalcy.  Right now, I'm watching graduation.  It is being held on the football field with limited guests.  I'm glad for all of them that they get to have this, and I'm very grateful the weather cooperated for them.

The last couple of weeks have been so rough for me.  I'm going to sound whiny and spoiled here, but never in my life as a mother have I had to work for seven consecutive weeks without a day off, and it occurred while Andrew was coaching baseball and Thomas was playing tennis.  It was also while things were exploding with my grandmother, so there was just really a LOT going on in life.

Not only was our family adjusting to me being full time, but of course, we have been in the middle of a pandemic!  For Andrew and Thomas, that meant school online, then school in-person, then online, and never on Wednesday (unless it was finals week), and snow days may not really be snow days, and teaching to students at home even when school is in-person.  Nothing about it was normal or easy.  For Catherine it meant almost no in-person classes, and as a beginning college student, that meant virtually no socializing. This year was just tough, and not just for our family, but for everyone.

It seems so hard to believe that our "baby" is going to be a senior.  Oh my goodness, I have no idea how we got here so fast.  That is next year though, and for now I'm just grateful that our family successfully made it through this year!