The last two weeks have been extraordinarily long. The first week, I was focusing on school progress reports, and both weeks I've been working on church end of year. I still have plenty of church work to do, but I'm in decent shape. At school, we've also been dealing with constant COVID cases. It was a long week of calculating timelines and determining any in-school exposures. The hardest part was the phone call I received Monday morning. Andrew had been at a meeting Sunday afternoon, and the host had tested positive first thing Monday. He'd been symptomatic, but because his son had a cold and had tested negative twice, he assumed he also had a cold. We were very grateful to know right away, as it allowed our family to take precautions. I spent the week sleeping in Catherine's room since she was at college. Whenever we were all home together, we wore masks. I didn't love wearing masks in my home, but we were willing in an effort to try to keep it from spreading among us. My school still follows the ten day quarantine rule, and I don't receive any paid time off. If I can avoid missing a chunk of a paycheck, I would prefer to do so. Friday evening I had to take my mom's new phone to her, and while I was gone, I was thrilled that Andrew tested himself and it came back that he was negative! What an incredible relief.
Meanwhile, Catherine has started her next semester of classes. For a variety of reasons, she is taking a bit of a lighter class load. She's still working here in town on the weekends, but not necessarily staying here. We are proud of her for doing her thing, but as a mom that worry and fretting never ends.
Thomas has so much going on that he really warrants his own post. He's got a lot going on and we are so proud of him as well. It's not a normal senior year, but he's hanging in there so far. He has a lot of work to do and has a lot of decisions to make.
There is a lot of snow in the area, but no so much here. That is so disappointing. I love snow!
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