A Year Ago This Week

One year ago today – Friday the 13^th.  They tried to pass it off as an extension of Spring Break and were confident it wouldn’t last.  How did they think it wouldn’t last? Last day at school for the remainder of the year. Well, maybe not for everybody.  It was for me.  And in person for Jenna – who has friends in quarantine and reminds them about last year at this time.

March 7^th was a Saturday.  Ester was scheduled to be baptized and Gary would be the following week.  But Bill and Kayla changed it so that Gary would be baptized at the same time as Ester’s baptism.  Different wards. 

March 8^th was a Sunday – unbeknownst to us, the last Church meeting’s to be held for over six months in 2020. 

On the 9^th this year I received a memory that was written in 2011.  It said “It sounds like now days that it is going to come down to the fact for parents to take it upon themselves to home school.”  Wow!

We had scheduled an activity for the 14^th.  On the 11^th we were wondering if we should postpone – or cancel as it turned out.  For on the 12^th (the day before our last day of school) the Prophet announced “Church at Home”  What???  Our ward is small enough that surely we would be able to meet.  But the lockdown applied to us as well.

So Spring Break is coming up.  Last year they dismissed the students early.  Told them that they would have an extended spring break - they didn't know it would be for five months!  In addition to spring break is daylight saving.  Why the heck do we still have daylight saving???? When will this nightmare end?