Today I should have been...

[Altuve]

...on a long haul flight to my old home city to spend a week with my closest friends, who I haven’t seen for over 2 years.

...instead, I am standing in my kitchen, homeschooling 4DC, and eating my way through everything I can find because I’m so sad.

Your turn (both negative and positive alternatives welcome)

Oh some of these are hard to read. Especially yours @bloodywhitecat

What’s the current situation with your foster placement now? Everything just on hold until lockdown is over? Man, that’s got to be so hard on everyone involved.

@hellsbellsmelons we FaceTime a lot anyway - and more recently zoom too. I’ll definitely be in touch with various friends over the course of the next week - particularly this weekend which was meant to be a girls’ weekend away in another city for my friend’s 40th. I’m just sad today. I’m allowing myself to wallow and the minute DH finishes work I’m going out for a long walk. I genuinely have no idea when I’ll see my friends again - realistically it would be next summer at the very earliest, and quite possibly not even then.

Friday my mum should have been arriving in Germany from Australia via the UK for a two week visit. Sunday we were going to go on a Steam train through the forest, next week we were supposed to be going to Koblenz for three days, if they open the hotels next week I will go on my own as I will not be able to get a refund.

@Altuve It's going ahead but with some changes made for the current situation, we have had to have risk assessments done because there will be some mixing of households. Some introductions for slightly older children are taking place via Skype/video call but my little one is too young to really understand that so we are going ahead with a condensed introductions phase. If, at the end, I feel she's not ready I will say no and ask for more time. As it stands I worry about the fact that she is not going to be able to say goodbye to some of our extended family who have come to play a big part in her life. I am hoping there is some kind of easing of restrictions because it will make everything easier for the adoption.

It's going ahead at the end of this month that should read

Sat on a beach in Los Angeles. Instead I've painted the front of the house. I'm not bitter. Oh no...

Packing the bags for our family to fly home for a friend's wedding and to introduce our newborn to family.
All our close and long term friends would have been at the wedding and I was so looking forward to celebrating with everyone. The bride to be is also the most genuine, caring and wonderful human and I just really feel for her. It's postponed for next year at the moment. The weekend also covers our Mother's Day and we would have been staying with my DM and taking her out for brunch. It's all made me feel quite homesick.