Pandemic Holidays, 2021 Edition
Here we are, standing in the doorway of December 2021. Pandemic life is not as constricted as it once was but it continues to be a tricky bugger. The rise and fall of variants keeps things unpredictable. In September when the kids were starting back at in-person school Delta was filling the ICU beds and my anxiety felt like a shrieking kettle as I sent my babies out into a world that seemed no safer than March 2020 (the main difference being Jeremy and I were vaccinated). Then Delta settled down for no reason scientists can figure out and things felt less scary and more doable. And now the Omicron variant is here, and frankly I've moved beyond anxiety to a comfortable place of not giving a damn. The kids are finally fully vaccinated and Jeremy and I are boostered. No one knows right now if Omicron (which I still don't know how to pronounce) is going to be a big deal or not, so instead of freaking out I'm centering myself around a completely unsupported-by-evidence belief (b
