Crushed

Want to know what it looks like when your spirit has been crushed? This. Natalie has been so optimistic since the beginning of all this bad news. When school was closed for 6 weeks, she made a paper chain counting the days till she could go back. Then the governor extended the date. No biggie she added on to her chain. Then school was cancelled. Natalie’s optimism still won out. She made her chain to count down the days till the premier of Amazing Race on May 20th. Then yesterday CBS announced that they were going to delay the premier till a later date with no date given. I think it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I found her chain crumpled up in the recycling. When I asked her about it she said, “there isn’t anything to count to anymore, everything has been cancelled.”  Sort of feels this way with all summer plans cancelled and the governor pushing back the stay at home order till the end of May now. With a 4 phase  reopening plan that will take us till some time this fall to see anything normal return. It’s hard to watch the crushing of spirts. Here’s to better days ahead!