No April Fools today. (Just a video of happier times.)

I came downstairs this morning to a text, “Quarantine is over!”

On one hand, it gave me a moment’s pause (I hadn’t had coffee yet.)–did some miraculous intervention happen over night while half of the world slumbered? Is this for real? And on the other–how irresponsible of Trump! Why would he end quarantine!?

And about two and a half seconds later, “Ah. It’s April 1st.”

I’m in two minds, really. Aren’t we all? Appreciating the slow, beautiful bits that this quarantine has undeniably forced us to adopt, while also itching to hug my friends, to walk into a cafe and order a coffee with a pre-COVID19 naivety, to go to the playground with the kids, to walk down the street and pass people without this strange, unfriendly (though understandably), large berth we’re currently giving one another.

So, in between pieces of homeschooling, I finally loaded my clips from our lake time last July to my computer to put together a video (notifications of full storage on my phone were encouraging me to do so, too!). It was a great reminder that this is temporary and our days in the sun will come again. Hang on, friends. We’re already doing it.