What started as a normal year, ended as the most strange year of our lives. I would have NEVER dreamed of living through a pandemic with fears running rampant, school and pretty much everything else shut down, politics dividing the country, Black Lives Matter taking center stage, and a toilet paper shortage (still so weird).
I started the year at Southwest (with an amazing promotion to Director of the Change Leadership Team) and ended the year as the Vice President of Organization Effectiveness and Change Leadership at McKesson. We started the year with a regular routine of school and work. I ended the year working fully remotely from home and the kids back in school in masks after 6 months out of school or doing remote learning. We started the year with a full schedule of activities, social events, attending church every Sunday, and travel. We ended the year continuing to attend online church and social events consisting mostly of hanging out with neighbors. We started the year hugging our friends and family and ended the year waving at each other at a distance.
The most difficult parts of the 2020 pandemic life for me were:
- Remote learning: It was impossible to help 3 kids with their learning and work full-time
- Missing my family: I didn't see my Mom and Dad for almost all of 2020 and our schedule was totally changed with the Walsh family too as DD and Big John were very cautious
- Southwest Goodbye: Even though it was my choice, it was still an incredibly difficult decision to leave Southwest and all the wonderful relationships
The silver linings:
- Working from home: I LOVE it. My light and bright office, no commute, hugging my kids during the day, and overall just much less stress
- Neighbors: Pretty much every weekend, and many weekdays, we spent in the front yards or our backyard hanging with the Cherkassky men and the Brown/Herzogs. We had bounce houses, zip lines, fort building, fire pits, and so many crazy moments and memories.
- FOMO is gone: There is nothing going on! I have been going to bed earlier, am rested, and feel a lot less pressure. We were busy with biking, Marvel movie marathon, sleeping in on Saturdays and the highlight of the fall was watching both boys play flag football
Goodbye and good riddance 2020!
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