An Ode To Co-op
I remember writing a blog something like 6 weeks into the pandemic, shocked that it was going on so long. We truly had no idea that it would be over a year until vaccines started rolling out and the world would start feeling a little more safe again. I am curious how we’ll remember this time. Already hindsight is filtering out some of those sharper edges, although I still find myself nervous at grocery stores, scared to touch public handles, defaulting to a mask when we’re out – even when fully vaccinated. We went to a school friend’s birthday party in May; it was outside at a park…but man, we did not think of how the kids would react. As soon as we reached the hive of other kids we hadn’t seen in over a year, buzzing around the tables, shouting “Addie, where have you been?? Are you virtual??” when we arrived, Addie and Bria just kind of froze. Adalyn said she just wanted to stand instead of sitting at the table of kids, and could barely muster up a response to her friendly...