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Covid Kicks Everything Into Confusion.
Aug. 1st, 2022 06:02 pmMy cousin Alies said to me a few weeks ago “Covid schopt alles in de waar.” This is Dutch, and while it probably translates better as “Covid messes everything up” I like the literalness of “Covid kicks everything into confusion.”
First Kip and I caught Covid while preparing for Dad and Jake to come visit, getting well (or rather, testing negative) just barely in time for the visit itself to go somewhat haltingly forward, then just as we were looking toward FKO (me) and the upcoming scholastic year (Kip) Kip’s sister caught Covid. The kicker here is that Kip’s mother is elderly, widowed, and too frail to be on her own full time, but capable enough to live in her own apartment. Kip’s sister and her husband have been handling things like driving her to her medical appointments (of which she has a lot right now because reasons) and helping her in and out of the bathtub every day or two for her bath.
So Kip and I put our lives on hold as quickly as we could manage and drove out to be caregivers for a week, just in time for Kip’s sister’s husband to (predictably) catch Covid too. We have done the caregiving stint before to give Keely and Randy a break in summer, and it’s a good chance for Kip to see his mom, and she’s a pleasant person and I don’t mind a week’s change of responsibility and scenery but it was still pretty weird.
While we were there we went to see the Philbrook museum, twice, because there is just so much to see there you can’t take it all in in one day. I love the gardens intensely. We also went to see Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, because I’d adored the trailer and I heard it was out. I liked it very much.
But it was very difficult to practice since we were in a hotel room and I was very self conscious about how loud a violin is. And I have now had One Violin Lesson in a whole month and that’s not what I would have preferred.
We are now back home and trying to get back into normal life.
First Kip and I caught Covid while preparing for Dad and Jake to come visit, getting well (or rather, testing negative) just barely in time for the visit itself to go somewhat haltingly forward, then just as we were looking toward FKO (me) and the upcoming scholastic year (Kip) Kip’s sister caught Covid. The kicker here is that Kip’s mother is elderly, widowed, and too frail to be on her own full time, but capable enough to live in her own apartment. Kip’s sister and her husband have been handling things like driving her to her medical appointments (of which she has a lot right now because reasons) and helping her in and out of the bathtub every day or two for her bath.
So Kip and I put our lives on hold as quickly as we could manage and drove out to be caregivers for a week, just in time for Kip’s sister’s husband to (predictably) catch Covid too. We have done the caregiving stint before to give Keely and Randy a break in summer, and it’s a good chance for Kip to see his mom, and she’s a pleasant person and I don’t mind a week’s change of responsibility and scenery but it was still pretty weird.
While we were there we went to see the Philbrook museum, twice, because there is just so much to see there you can’t take it all in in one day. I love the gardens intensely. We also went to see Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, because I’d adored the trailer and I heard it was out. I liked it very much.
But it was very difficult to practice since we were in a hotel room and I was very self conscious about how loud a violin is. And I have now had One Violin Lesson in a whole month and that’s not what I would have preferred.
We are now back home and trying to get back into normal life.
