While the past several months have been challenging socially, this time has encouraged new activities and in many ways brought us closer together with friends and family.
Our children created an activity early in the pandemic to collect gratitude cards from our neighborhood and we delivered them to the hospital (MGH) to share with front line workers. We are proud that our kids started this work before this became a mainstream activity.
We began weekly family zoom gatherings with family who live out of state.
We did a project to write actual letters – one per day – and mailed them. We mailed them to grandparents, cousins, and friends. Our kids have grown up in in the email world so writing letters was truly a new experience. It was really great joy when they got letters back in the mail! We have become ever so excited seeing the mail carrier arrive every day – and appreciate more than ever how vital their work is to the social, emotional, financial, political, and overall wellbeing of our country.
We all learned to play outdoors much more so – regardless of weather – with physical distancing and wearing masks. We quickly realized that this didn’t get in the way and there were many ways to have safe fun outdoors.
We made (Jewish) holiday food and found ways to give it/share it with others who ordinarily would have come over.
We taught zoom cooking class to our neighbors, enabling a teenager with Celiac disease to once again enjoy cake that was homemade and delicious.
