One Year.

Holy bananas you guys.

It's been a year. 

A YEAR of working from home, full time.

Because of a fucking pandemic.

A pandemic that our country has been unable to control.

A pandemic that started when we had the absolute worst person as our leader. 

A leader who did nothing to try to keep this pandemic from getting so bad.

And now all the people are suffering because of it.

It has now been one full year of working my full-time job out of my home.

Well, minus the 7 weeks I was unemployed. 

I absolutely, 100% cannot believe that we are at a year of this.

My kids haven't had any sense of normalcy in a year. 

My little one started her first year of REAL school during a pandemic and has lost out on a true Kindergarten experience.

All of this being said, I do realize that we are some of the lucky ones. 

Even though we were directly affected by it by me losing my job, we still ended up in a better place than before. 

So many people are still suffering in horrible ways.

No job.

No way to pay rent.

No way to pay for groceries.

Kids not in school.

So I'm still grateful that we have what we have.

It's so weird not knowing what life will be like in a few months. In a year.

Will schools be open?

Will we be able to travel?

It's just so weird that it's been legitimately 12 months since this all started on Friday, the 13th of March.

I remember the day like it was yesterday.

I remember texting my daycare provider to let her know that we wouldn't be sending the kids but that I'd still pay her for two weeks until "this got figured out."

Well, obviously we're still figuring it out.

I just went back to my memories from last year this time.

This was one of the first days I worked from home AND homeschooled the girls. 

There's something to be said about the feeling of not knowing what was to come. The picture above is right when we started to realize this could be bad.

I'm grateful that the weekend prior, Mila had a sleep over with a few friends. That was the last time she hung out with friends in a normal fashion.

It's so sad.

And the fact that it's not going away...sigh. Just makes ya think, you know?