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Are You Ready for Summer 2021?




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I cannot believe that summer is about 3 months away!!? Do you have any plans? We have been seriously on staycation since the pandemic hit last year. It has been really challenging, to say the least, to keep it together at times, especially with a hubby, an adult daughter, and a teenaged autistic son. All at home all the time ***SIGH****. But at the end of the day, it is all because we need to be and remain socially distant and safe in this time due to COVID-19. We are also still on a waiting list to get the vaccine, so hopefully sooner than later. I will definitely not get into that, regarding taking the COVID vaccine or not, it just gets too complicated and touchy. 


For Easter, I made baskets for my kiddoes and they are cute, here are some pics: 



They look forward to these every single year. I thought I was done but when I brought it up to my adult daughter about Easter baskets and if she still wanted me to make them, she said "uh, yes, Mom!". So I did and here they are.  


I digress....what are we planning for the summer? Well for right now, it is sort of up in the air because of all that is going on in the world, but I will have to keep you all updated, if our staycation plans change and/or we get moved up from our current phase in our state. 

That's all for now. Have a safe and happy week and practice safe social distancing. 

~Mandu


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