Our schedule has slowed down so much during this pandemic year. I've gotten accustomed to not having very many events on the calendar, so now when I do have something, I hardly know how to handle it. Last week Daisy had an orthodontist appointment that took all of 12 minutes, and it stressed me out for the entire week.
This week, things are going to get crazy. I have something every night. I even had to cancel one thing in order to attend another thing. I don't know how to live like this anymore! Fortunately, some of the things are fun. But some of them are not. Like dentist appointments.
Speaking of scheduled events, we had one over the weekend. In lieu of a Christmas party, Scotty's mom bought everyone in the family VIP tickets to Luminaria at Thanksgiving Point for Saturday. It's a walk-thru Christmas light display in Ashton Gardens (it will be featured on "The Great Christmas Light Fight" on ABC this week).
The crowds were decent for a Saturday night at Thanksgiving Point. As always, I appreciate the COVID crowd control. There were waves of chaos now and then that got my anxiety soaring (my dislike of crowds is life-long and legit - this isn't a COVID thing), but then it would taper off.
Scotty and I both acknowledged the beautiful milestone of not having to bring a stroller to this event. As we witnessed so many parents trying to navigate crowds with screaming children in strollers, our hearts went out to them. We are just barely on the other side of that (we still often deal with the screaming children part, but it has gotten a little better and a little less frequent now).
It was really nice of Scotty's parents to give us this experience. We really enjoyed it. Now we can never go again because once we've been VIPs, it's too hard to go back to whatever we were before we were VIPs.
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