The One That Should Have Had a Prom

April 3 - 5, 2020

What a weird time we are living in.  We have marked everything on our calendar for the month of April as "CANCELLED."  It's sad.  But, it's also nice for a break.  Less rush.  More family time.  More people out walking the neighborhood.  More people checking in on each other.  More kindness.  More love.  I hope it stays that way when things go back to "normal."

I am cherishing this "extra" time with my kids and family.  I get all these extra hours with my Lara Beth before she goes off to college.  Emma has basically moved out of her dad's house and is finishing her semester in Newkirk working for her grandpa and doing her online schooling.  They both have had their last day of school rescheduled for May 15.  ONE DAY after they turn 18.

But there was no Prom on Saturday, April 4.  No make-up appointments.  No hair appointments.  No pictures.  No glam and glitz.  Emma's prom was supposed to be here in Stillwater at the Community Center.  Lara's was to be in the Student Union Ballroom on the OSU campus.  Lara was supposed to take the ACT one last time this day.  And Emma was going to attend Greek discovery day on campus.  None of this happened.  We did get to celebrate Nana's birthday with a drive-by greeting though!

We also got to participate in a fun community social media video challenge.  Our elementary school, Westwood, was challenging folks to make a video of themselves singing the school song.  Lara was nominated by her babysitting client, Gabe (she is his summer Nanny).  He nominated Lara, and his big brother Luke.  Lara and Luke were in the same second-grade class at Westwood 10 years ago (with Mrs. Fox, same teacher Jake had and Finn currently has).  This was her challenge.  She challenged Mrs. Fox and her brothers!


(peep the shirt!!!) 
We spent some time working on graduation announcements this weekend, too.  We got mailing lists together, chose the pictures to put on them, designed them, and now we wait.  Do we wait to see if there is a date for this?  Do we send them now to be ahead of the curve?  What do we do?!?  More on that in a later installment...

Tomorrow, Monday, April 6, we "go back to school."  Distance Learning.  Packets.  Zoom meetings.  Each kid doing different things at different times.  We'll see how it goes!

We had an idea over the weekend to honor the Stillwater High School Class of 2020 and leave a legacy from them for the high school.  Stay tuned for updates next week...

In the meantime: