Adaptation to COVID world

I know it doesn't make up for the absence, but I hope that photos and Facetime can at least help a little.

I have a lesser version of that feeling coming soon enough. My younger brother's wife is due with their second child, who will be delivered by C-section next week. This isn't a grandchild, but most of our family is gone. He's my half-brother. Our father died 20 years ago. His mother is a disaster and they don't speak. Our only other sibling, our older brother, died this past September. I was actually the one who had to call my younger brother and tell him. What I didn't know was that he had just found out his wife was pregnant again and they weren't ready to tell people yet.

We are both lucky enough to have amazing in-laws, but that's not quite the same. Not being able to be there for them and meet the little one for a while truly sucks.

 

Congrats to @Moderator1 and @outofplace I hope we're seeing the generation that will fix the mess we've made things.

 

As long as I don’t have to give them credit-card info, I’ll do it. SXM is the worst company to try to cancel with. The last time I had their service, I had to explain to them repeatedly that the receiver had completely died because they kept trying to convince me to keep the service anyway.

 

I'm not much for prayer, but I'll put that aside for the new little ones with my father's favorite saying. From your lips to G-d's ear.

 

mazel tov!

 

I've thought about this quite a bit lately. This post comes after I see on FB that a very good friend's Mom, 97, had a heart attack and is in ICU. My friend cannot go to see her Mom, unless they determine that she has about reached the end.
My daughter is 28, and she is very worried about Covid-19. I am 68 and she has forbid me from leaving the house. She is living through this. A few years ago when she was in college, there were almost weekly campus shooting. This is the world we live in.

 

May I add my congratulations as well, Moddy.

 

Congratulations, Moddy!

 

Congrats Moddy! I'm sorry about your inability to be there personally, but look at the long run, you'll be there for her for a long time.