Halloween

Despite the grey sky, the new wave of the pandemic with contamination rates we've never seen before and the looming lockdown, our family is not feeling particularly gloomy. Perhaps, just because of these special circumstances, we have tuned into small pleasures, taking example from our children and sharing their irresistable excitement over..Halloween! The school is indeed organizing a Halloween party, within the class. We have prepared the costumes weeks ago (witch and Alice in wonderland), sweets and cookies are stacked in packpacks. My hands were trembling when I today heard my daughter's teacher has fallen ill, waiting for covid test results. The school has been struggling to find an alternate teacher in our language section, because apparently so many teacher was absent..I cross my fingers and send a little prayer that my childrens highlight of the fall will not be cancelled. All the other excursions have been cancelled for this year, the skiing trip to the Alps is especially hard to swallow for my eldest. They talk about this 5th grade trip since 1st grade! For the rest, I don't see symptoms of great stress in my kids. Life happens in our daily activities. We are excited about my son's first tooth moving, my baby girls successful potty training, my second ones evening gymnastics or the reading diploma completed. With my husband we have grown to love working from home and don't miss one bit our previous rat-race busy mornings. We are humans with the greatest of gifts, the capacity to adapt, to this, and whatever is to come next.