We had a vacation! We went down to visit my parents in RI, and my sister and her girlfriend drove all the way here from Colorado. It was lots of fun, and perhaps more importantly almost felt normal. Mandy and Bailey were extra careful because they know I’m so paranoid, so they quarantined for 14 days before they came up and then to be extra cautious took a covid test the day before they left. One bonus to them driving over half the country was that they were able to bring their dogs!
Julius had a blast! He was so happy to see everyone, hang out on the lake, pretend to be a dog, etc. On the last night of the trip (extended by one day because at the last minute I found out I didn’t have to work on Sunday) he said to me, pensively “we are not leaving today, but we are leaving tomorrow”. I told him that yes we were leaving tomorrow and asked how that made him feel. He reflected, “I think it makes me feel sad.” It was just about the cutest, most heartbreaking thing ever.
I’m going to have to come up with some great activities over the coming weeks, to get him through. Apparently RI got added to the do not travel list in MA, after we’d already been there for a while, so now we have to quarantine for 14 days. And to think that I was just starting to get over my covid induced anxiety…
One of the better activities I came up with for Julius recently was a color your own face mask. I had all these fabric markers left over from Erin’s baby shower, and I just quickly made Julius a plain white mask. Julius colored on it, and I think it looks pretty great. It did take some encouragement to get him to use anything but a brown marker though.
Kid’s Color-Your-Own Mask
What You’ll Need
- Plain White Mask – pattern here
- Scrap paper
- Fabric markers
Insert scrap paper into your plain white mask (if your mask has a removable layer like the pattern above).
Let child color on front of mask as desired. Launder as recommended before wearing.
