How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

Wow! This was a question I’ve actually been thinking about a lot lately.

Our lives have changed a lot since the pandemic… I’m sure others can relate to this as well.

We had just moved into our current home and I was pregnant with little Shyanne… what an experience! It was a high risk pregnancy and I had to attend most appointments alone.

The pregnancy and complications made that time more difficult in itself. It was definitely one of the most challenging experiences of my life… even without the added challenges from the pandemic.

We started doing most grocery shopping via Walmart or Sam’s delivery which we still use a lot. we used this a lot during her hospital stay while she was going through chemo… also during the pandemic!

We had to be very cautious about visitors and we went through a lot of masks and hand sanitizer but thankfully she didn’t get Covid during her treatments… it wasn’t until afterwards that it made into our home.

We already homeschooled but we definitely had to cut out a lot of our extracurricular activities… it’s been hard to get them back into the schedule now but we are trying to be a little more intentional about adding them in.

We also started making more things from scratch as I had done before. We had gotten a little more dependent on convenience foods with our busy schedule before Covid but food shortages meant that we didn’t have access to a lot of convenience foods anymore.

I will also say that I started praying a lot more and spending more time studying my Bible… that helped me to get through a lot of the darkest times.

I know life is still not back to what it was but this is our new ‘normal’ and we’ve adjusted. We’ve also been making a lot of changes so that we can be a little less reliant on grocery stores and such as we learned some important lessons from the pandemic.

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We did experience some losses during the pandemic and we lost some close friends and family members. That made it even more important that we make sure that those around us know how much they mean to us because you just never know what tomorrow will hold.

What are some of the biggest changes you faced because of the pandemic?