This week has been intense and overwhelming for pretty much every person on the planet. The collective grief of this whole situation is impossible to fully grasp. Reading the HBR article about naming our grief has helped me more than anything else I've read or heard.
The quotes below from the article resonated with me in a big way:
There is something powerful about naming this as grief.
Two days ago my family hit a breaking point. All three of us had meltdowns and it was a bad scene in this quarantined house. I knew something had to change and the only thing I could truly control was myself and my attitude. Because Lord knows controlling a toddler isn't always an option.
So I took on a new attitude that has been working for us ever since.
It's hard to figure out what kind of content to be posting during these strange times, so I asked you guys on Instagram what you wanted to see. The top answer, by far, was recipes. As I play around in the kitchen, I'll share recipe wins in the coming weeks, but for now, here are 10 great recipes for you to get started.
We survived it. I still don't have my test results back so I am not 100% sure what we survived but we survived something, that's for sure. After a week of fevers and coughs and a few scary moments there, we have made it to the other side. I cannot even begin to put into words the relief we felt yesterday morning when Amalia woke up with a smile on her face and no fever whatsoever.
