@sueinmn, Thanks for responding. I can imagine it is much harder to be physically close to those precious grands and not be able to reach out and hug them! So much fun that the gregarious 16 mo old grabs the phone to show intent for “phone time”!

My family are also wonderful about doing the same as yours for staying in touch. We are fortunate to have their care and willingness to share with us.

I am impressed by your quilting accomplishments. My neighbor is a quilter and she says her passion for that is like mine for gardening. The difference is that yours will have lasting beauty while my is season-to-season. Grateful for whatever is constructive now.

Yes and thank you. My best friends and I exchange phone calls daily. She and her guy get on speaker phone so we can at least touch voice-to-voice. Not nearly the same and he & I have to help my friend “complete” many of her attempts to share info. Not sure if she remembers the calls from previous days but for the moment, we are happy for the communication.

@colleenyoung, Thank you and for the links too. Look forward to each of them. I’ll be especially rooting for you as you “intentionally close your home office” in order to get the deserved respite needed on your “backyard vacation days”. Bought a book: “Just Do It”…ahhh, so much easier said/written than done, yes?

@merepreb, Me too! Lol; @lioness and @robbie1956, I agree. I think the postponed travel will be very hard for me to accept gracefully as well. Yes, we can hope!

@johnbishop, This is hilarious!!!! https://youtu.be/1f7OwFqTnco