It has been a little over four years now since we retired and almost a year now since the we were hit by the global pandemic. We were fortunate in many ways to have had those three retirement years before the shutdowns, stay at home orders and quarantines. We do miss the traveling we had been doing the previous couple of years, the seeing live music and going out to dinner at least two times a week.
The previous years of retirement somewhat prepared us for all of the staying at home and keeping ourselves busy in different ways. We are also fortunate that Becky has been able to keeping going to her art studio throughout the pandemic.
We know a few people who are recent retirees and it has been very difficult for them. We are glad that we've had some practice being at home a lot and finding ways to keep busy. We were also able to travel to Europe that past couple of years and to be able to go down to Philly regularly to spend time with Katie and the kids. We were also fortunate that Katie had her surgeries scheduled and completed before the pandemic hit. That would have been awful if we had not be able to go down there and help them.
However, I do feel like we are being cheated out of some of our well earned retirement time. We had been going out to dinner regularly and I really do miss the that and the social aspect of being out and about. I'm really looking forward to get our vaccinations and having our life get back to normal whatever the new normal might be.
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