3-Months of Covid-19 Life

We've now completed 3 months of life since our world shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many parts of the world have slowly phased into reopening. The state of AR has been reopening and life feels a little bit less weird. However, with businesses reopening and parts of life resuming, the cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas are definitely on the rise. As of today, we have had 11,547 cases of COVID-19 in the state. We also currently have 4,338 active cases in the state. It's crazy how fast it's spread since we started to phase into reopening. It makes me really nervous. I don't think we have reached our peak yet for infections so it's only going to get worse. It's terrifying. I'm trying hard not to live in fear but it's hard. 

 Since I already wrote about the end of school and how Covid-19 affected our school plans, I won't cover that again. Summer has been in full swing and even though we can't do most of our normal summer stuff, we are trying to make the most of it. We can't go to the pool with friends, we can't go to the splash pad or water parks. We also aren't able to see our friends or do most normal things.

But one good thing that came from us staying home was Tucker learning how to ride his bike.
We had tried with him in January but he wasn't quite ready, so we took off his pedals and turned his bike into a balance bike. After a few months of learning to balance we felt like he was ready to try again.
Dad put his pedals back on and then Tucker hopped on his bike and just took off. We didn't help him at all and he did so great. We were so proud of him. He's a rock star and he did so amazing.

We were all so thrilled for him. It was so cute to watch the kids all cheer for their brother. 

Now we have three little bike riders and we are so proud. 

Besides Tucker learning to ride his bike, not a whole lot has happened here. We are kind of surviving summer right now. It's not been our typical summer and I've struggled  a little bit with it.

I always love summer but it feels like the kids have already been home for a whole summer so I kind of feel like normal life should resume now. I'm going to work hard on helping the kids enjoy their summer and find some fun things we can safely do together. This is really a strange time we are living in right now. It's been hard in so many ways but it's been good in some ways too. I'm trying hard to find the good everyday. Some days it goes better than others but I'm going to keep trying.

It's really strange how many aspects of life are just different now. How many things we took for granted that we now miss. It's been hard to adjust in some ways, but in other ways it's been really freeing. Toilet paper is back in stock. Most items, actually, are back in stock at the stores. However, chlorox wipes are still hard to find. We are seeing our cousins and grandparents still but that's it. We still don't hang out with friends. We still don't go to birthday parties for our friends or to the pool.
We are trying to navigate this weird time the best we can but sometimes its just hard. Sometimes I feel like we are all so sick of each other but other times we are totally content together. It's a roller coaster of an experience and we are doing our best to figure it out.