Birthdays in the Time of Covid

I just realized that the title I picked for this post reminds me of a book I read: Love in the Time of Cholera.  It is somewhat fitting.  Like just about everything else, our birthday celebrations are looked little different this year.  2020 will certainly go down in the history books as a pivotal year and we just happen to have had 3 milestone birthdays this year.  Mine, in January, actually squeaked in with the last bit of normalcy- Luke's in May was the big 13, a true quaranteenager, and Adrienne rounds it out with moving into the double digits for her golden birthday of 10. 

Luke's birthday was still in the heavy lock down period so he got a special dinner of KFC, compliments of Gma and Gpa, and an ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery.    His "special" gift was his new iphone 11 which he received in February due to the untimely death of his iphone 6.  He also got a long board, a new ipad, and several other gifts.  He had zoom calls and balloons; still a memorable birthday.  Adrienne had her birthday as we started to emerge from the serious quarantine.  She was able to have 3 other friends over for water balloons and a trip to Yotality.  Her dinner of choice was 5 Guys.    She also had lots of balloons and gold decorations for her golden birthday.  She also got a long board and an electric scooter.  All riding toys in the house have seen lots of love these past few months. 

Not a milestone birthday, but we got to have a somewhat normal celebration for Matt's birthday while at Keuka for the 4th of July weekend.  The summer gave us a nice reprieve from a lot of the Covid restrictions because we were able to be outside most of the time.  Then, in November when Coco's birthday rolled around, we were pretty much back to no gatherings so we just had a small family celebration combined with some zooming.  I'm sure we will resume the birthday parties next year but all in all, no one suffered!