This year the three - Passsover 4/8, our anniversary 4/10, and Easter 4/12 all fall within the continuing saga of the corona virus pandemic and shelter in place order...
Passover Seder was conducted via Zoom platform- it was fun but totally disorienting not to be able to sit with each other and talk face to face.. the platform allows for only one speaker at a time which n our small circle is really difficult... we talk over each other routinely- it has always been a loud and somewhat crazy seder... this year it was so quiet to sit at home and listen- i wasn't sure that I would even get to be part of the evening as I was scheduled to work at the time it was being held... turns out that because of the virus and several coworkers deciding they could no longer come in to work, that I was scheduled earlier in the day... so I joined albeit without the traditional meal ( I ate strawberries and a banana whilst those around were eating the traditional items.) the seder wound up being a better experience than I expected...
Our anniversary #26 was a lovely Friday (good friday as it turned out) I spent the better part of the morning gathering the food items that I wanted to prepare- we had lobster bisque, matlaws clams on the half shell, ray had lasagna, and I had bowtie pasta with spinach and garlic... and we had a lovely chocolate torte for dessert. the evening was quiet and lovely, but again not what I had hope to do for the anniversary- I wanted to get Ray out of the house and spend some time in a place away from here... oh well...
Easter... so far is not going as I'd like... Ray is sleeping - it's after 11 and I've been up and ready to move since 7... our schedules are just not gelling lately at all... Ursula moved from Bayside to Snithtown and I had hoped to get Ray to take a ride and have a socially distanced visit, but i just received a phone call from Ursula to wish us a happy Easter and to let us know that she intends to drive into Bayside today to give the real estate agent her house key so that she can begin to show the apartment and perhaps rent it.
my heart is heavy with all this change- I know that I am not the only one who is troubled by all the changes and lack of routine ...
my mantra... let go... and so I shall.
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