First, I apparently am very random in my postings...given my last one was in 2016. Life, 2 kids, 1 husband and 4 cats later...I do good to get showers some days...
My girls keep me busy. The oldest child was doing choir until the pandemic hit last year...never thought you would use that word in a sentence where your own life is concerned did you? Me either. But COVID-19 start appearing around the world but we heard it as SARS and it was always in another country so you don't think it will affect you...until it does. The official pandemic was declared in March 2020. But we think we saw it earlier in the US. Hubster was very sick after traveling to New Jersey, then California, a month later for work. We just thought he and a peer had a horrible cold virus or bronchitis.
All I can say is, I was up for local jury duty here in my county and I was not super excited about it. I had just taken over program management for a very popular medical device from a peer officially in April but had been ramping up since the fall with duties. Hearing I would have to serve for four months and in three possible trials (2 were 2 day trials but one was slated for 3 weeks and was a high profile murder case) I was feeling stressed as my new role left no time for my own life much less sitting in a courtroom all morning waiting on jury selection to occur. I am glad somebody has to do it but I just don't want it to be me! I had gone to one session to discuss what to expect in Jan then our next meeting got cancelled for some reason and then the pandemic hit. Can't say I was glad to see the virus, as that was a very scary time, but I would have rolled in dog poop to get out of jury duty...I was that worried/stressed about it and juggling my busy job.
We managed to stay safe and avoid catching it thankfully. I knew no one close to me that contradicted it. My mom hid out at her cabin, while my dad stayed home and worked, so she wouldn't get it. We were already homeschooling so nothing changed for us where school was concerned but not being to leave the house much got a bit annoying. We did manage to have volleyball in the summer with a lot of mask restrictions at games in the fall. (We practiced at an old plane hanger that had no heat or air so it was disgusting hot by July.) I think a couple of girls came down with Covid but none were hospitalized so we were thankful we were able to have a season and no one was so sick they needed anything worse than rest and meds. We even got to have their National Tournament...the highlight of which for me was backing into someone who was illegally parked. (Yes, I left a note and after a month they finally contacted me..about the time I had forgotten about it...they were nice at first then nasty about it.) Really? So much for a Christian Volleyball experience...
The youngest child tried out for club volleyball but had been struggling to get her serve over and had just managed to do it by the end of the season but it was a floater and not really anything to write home about. She ended not making either of the two teams she tried out for which was an eye opener for her. The oldest's choir program cancelled in the spring and never started back up as the college was still trying to figure out how to begin fall classes and they did not want to have high school students exposed so that also freed up time carting either of them back and forth to choir or sports practices.
All of that cancelling was a Godsend for me given I had this new role that was getting busier and busier and I needed to be working and not dragging kids all over the place. The local home school sports organization also did not have a girls 16U basketball that year, thanks apparently to some teenage drama, so I was able to throw myself into my work and understand how I could be more effective in my job. I am a global program manager for a medical device company and the products in our studies are pacemakers and leads. We were trying to maintain our presence in the US and EMEA geographies but also grow into Australia, Korea and China so meetings were anywhere from 6am to 7pm my time.
Life was crazy but life was good...so I thought then 2021 hit....
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