Son Up to Son Down

4 sucks. We’ve all said it and we’ve all felt it really deep in our bones. COVID has taken a lot of things away from us and it’s easy to get so focused on what we’re missing that we may have missed wonderful things happening right in front of our eyes.

It was hard for me not to feel personally attacked by COVID this year, especially with two of my kids being in school. The oldest had a quarter of his kindergarten year taken away from him. He didn’t get to do those fun spring activities like track and field day or finish out his first year of full-day school with his friends. The middle chil...