What a day. The first thing I have to say is how grateful I am for my village. We live in a neighborhood with tons of families with young children, and are lucky enough to have a group of us who spend a lot of time together and love each other's company- both the adults and the kids. I've always loved this about my neighborhood, but never more so than I do now. I consider all the moms in the area not only neighbors, but good friends and basically sister wives. We watch each other's kids when needed, get together for wine and gossip often, take walks, and text all day and night about our lives. And the Guys all have a good time when they get together also. Though their nights out always go a lot later than ours somehow.
The day started with my kids waking up a little after 7am, which makes me so grateful that this is all happening AFTER Daylight Savings. I then left the house for the first time since Thursday with one of my friends/neighbors/sister wives. Abby and I attempted to hit up the dollar tree for some supplies for the kids- play doh, markers, coloring books, etc. But it was closed, so we then headed over to a small local grocery store. I went to the paper goods aisle, knowing there wouldn't be any toilet paper but checking just in case. Sure enough, the shelves were completely empty. As I was standing there thinking about the crazy state of the world, I heard a whisper in my ear say, "follow me." No joke. A sweet woman who works there led me to a back closet where she had her "last two rolls" to offer me to buy. It was one of the oddest moments of my life. We then went back to the dollar store and were able to collect all the art supplies we needed for our kids when the one man who worked there said over the loudspeaker "Everyone come up and pay for your things and leave- I'm the only one here and I need to go unload the truck so I'm closing the store." Normal.
The rest of the morning was spent outside with some neighbors. The kids played basketball while we all talked about the insanity of our lives right now, all while staying 6 feet away from each other! We came inside to feed the kids lunch, and as I was putting their plates together I started to feel extremely overwhelmed and stressed. I immediately got a horrible headache and told Irv I had to go lay down. I had spent the past day and a half constantly refreshing my CNN app, reading countless facebook posts with quotes from different doctors and perspectives from all over the world, and I was just feeling overwhelmed. I went to lay down and ended up falling asleep for over an hour. I honestly think my body just shut down to save itself from a panic attack. Fun!
The rest of the afternoon was pretty epic. Earlier in the day we decided with our neighbors to all reconvene at the track and field on our street (yes- on our street!) to get a workout in and let the kids get their energy out. I woke up from my nap right in time to head to the field. But first, a back story. I have this friend, Katie. We met about a year and a half ago when she walked into the 9:30 class at CFNE that I'd been attending for a year already. We became fast friends, and she's one of those people that you meet and wonder why it feels like you've been friends from 20 years. None of it makes sense- she's a lot younger than me, we are in complete different stages of life, and yet I sometimes think that in a past life she was my little sister, or we were one of those sets of best friends who met in preschool and stayed best friends into their 90s, long after their husbands have passed. Sorry, that went dark quick. Anyway. Katie's boyfriend happens to be my Crossfit coach and also one of the best people to ever walk the planet. Ever. When Irv and I first joined CFNE and met him, we would talk often about how he just can't be a real person. You can't be around this guy without smiling and being happy- it's just impossible. He would drop everything to help anyone, he's selfless, fitter than almost everyone, and humble beyond measure. Ok- I'll save the rest of this sappy speech for their inevitable amazing wedding one day.
So, they came to the field too and about 10 of us adults and 20 kids got in an amazing workout. We happened to see other people from CFNE there, and to say it cheered me up is quite an understatement. Between getting in the endorphins and being around people that I genuinely love, that just can't beat that. Now let's just hope the next 25 (or 35? or 45?) days are just like this one.
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