April has always been my favorite month of the year here in Charleston. A month filled with flowering trees, amazing weather, evening trips to the beach, Spring break, and of course all things Easter. However, this April was quite different from the past Aprils I love.
Like everyone, April this year was spent quarantined at home.
This month we didn’t see friends or family or head to our neighborhood pool on the hot summer-like days. The Easter bunny filled our Easter baskets with left over Christmas gifts and Halloween candy. My work schedule, unlike the expected busy season, was non-existent and spring break wasn’t much of a vacation.
Instead, the days were filled with lots of kindergarten school work, inventions and messy crafts, late night drives in grandma’s new golf cart, and endless lightsaber wars. Spring break was spent at home watching childhood classic movies, building forts in every room and tie-dying every white garment I could find (to include my blonde-haired boys). And our yard was turned into a personal amusement park once again, with the newest addition of our upgraded kiddie pool.
Even with the stress of not being able to work or not knowing what the coming months might bring- life at home this month has forced us to be creative, to be okay with being bored and has taught us to be thankful for the things we often take for granted.
Here’s my thirty days of April 2020 (at home)…
