Daily documentation of our quarantine in photos.
With nicer spring weather we’ve starting taking more family walks after dinner. The streets in our neighborhood are largely empty and quiet, except for the sound of the big wheel roaring over the asphalt. I try to imagine what people inside their homes are thinking when they hear the rumble of the big wheel outside and Leo’s cackling in the distance. On really nice days there are water gun fights in the empty cul-de-sac in between riding bikes and big wheels. We celebrated Grandma Bon Bon’s birthday with champagne and face time calls with friends and family. We also somehow managed a small Easter celebration. We usually spend Easter with my in-laws, my nieces in their fancy Easter dresses, huge Easter baskets from Grandma Shirley, and epic egg hunt and a beautiful family dinner. I’m amazing the Easter Bunny came at all - we weren’t exactly feeling it this year. So we FaceTimed with family, had a quick egg hunt in the cold and ate lamb meatballs as a family of six. On a Wednesday evening, we returned to the Greenbelt with a good dose of pouting among the bluebells and a new game called “pull your brother to the edge of the hill and push him off the side”. I’ve missed that late afternoon light next to the woods but it sure felt good to see the neighbors and I even got to do socially distanced Dance Church on the greenbelt, giving walkers and joggers quite the sight.
A local photographer was offering to do front porch photography sessions you may have heard about, so I immediately signed up and our shoot was scheduled. The day came, we were getting ready and only after she texted did I realize we were off by an hour and there was no way we were going to make it over to the house on time. I was so upset with myself as I’m not usually someone who lets things fall through the cracks like that. It reminded me of similar feelings of spaciness during my pregnancies and post-partum, so I now call this forgetfulness covid brain. I decided to cut myself from slack, pulled out the tripod and get the family photo myself.
