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Greetings from the beach!!!!  At least, that’s what today’s blog was supposed to say.  My cousin crew planned our first cousin-only beach vacation.  No kids allowed!  We were going to go buck wild.  (My version of buck wild is staying up after ten.  All my cousins’ versions of buck wild varies.  The point is…we were going to enjoy ourselves.)  We started paying for our trip in 2019.  Nothing could hold us back.  Then 2020 got here.

When the outbreak of COVID-19 first occurred, we had a small talk.  Everyone was still on board.  At this point, I was gainfully employed.  There was no way that the virus that they were talking about would affect me or anyone that I knew.  Full speed ahead! 

Then my job closed for two weeks.  I was freaking out and wondering how I would be able to catch up from the two-week closure.  I knew that I would bounce back, but I was not sure how long the bounce back would take me.  I was still going on my vacation.  I had four months to figure everything out.

As the weeks of unemployment stacked up and the number of COVID-19 cases continued to increase, the vacation got the boot.  No fun in the sun for this cuzzo crew.  We were all devastated!!!  Still are. 

This is the first year in a long time that I have not been on vacation.  If “work hard, play hard” was a person, it would be me.  Sign me up for a cruise.  I’m all in for a road trip.  Let’s stop and get an Icee.  But not this year.  Let me roll around on the floor and throw a fit for a second.  I promise it will only be a second.  Okay.  I’m back.  Let me think on some good things.

We are all healthy and employed.  Clearly, we’ve been eating well because none of us are in danger of wasting away.  Most of us seem to be of sound mind.  Most of us.  I just turned my frown upside down.  Although my toes have not touched ocean water this year, I have many things to smile about.

2020 has not been anything that I imagined it would be.  I find comfort in the thought that my imagination was not big enough.  God’s plans far exceed and outshine anything that I could think of.  I’ll just put some sunblock on and sit in the sun.  Maybe I can dip my toes in someone’s kiddie pool.  #wepreach