I wrote the words below over three years ago, in April of 2020, and never published them…

 

Thinking back to that time, we really were “moving through this”… a global pandemic, national upheaval, pervasive uncertainty and more.

At the time, I remember constantly thinking to myself “and we are moving through this.”  The moving truck was coming soon.  Our family’s move was imminent.

“Moving through this…” was symbolic of the world coping in a collective unknown, and it was our personal reality. 

Our family was literally and physically uprooting ourselves from our home of fifteen years during the extreme uncertainty of the first month of a global pandemic. We were moving into a rental house before starting the process of building our new home…. during a global pandemic. Phew!

 

These words I wrote then were my attempt to give some perspective to it and simultaneously reassure myself:

“So it turns out that a time of home confinement, during a global pandemic, is actually the perfect time for a family of three to finish packing up their entire home of fifteen years while simultaneously having the man of the house recovering from arm surgery…….

 

It isn’t the most calming thing though.

 

There are plenty of unknowns to navigate as the close of our home sale and move approaches, but we are definitely collaborating as a family and persevering through moments of all kinds of moods and modes.

 

One conversation at a time, one box at a time, one to-do-list item at a time, one decision at a time…. and we are moving through it together and soon moving on…

 

We are gonna look back on this time and be awed by how we each navigated our lives.  I’m not just talking about our family trio here. I’m talking about every single one of us.

 

We each have our stories of perseverance right now.”