There wasn’t a lot of time to reflect (or write) yesterday due to all the coronavirus concerns. It felt like I’ve spent half of each day just trying to get a home office set up to the point wehre it’s halfway usable.
But yesterday was six months since he died, so we did try to take a moment here and there. Because of the nightmare of my work schedule and all the people forced to stay at home, we couldn’t even all go to the cemetery at the same time, but I took the kids around midday and Christina went later by herself.
The kids and I had a good moment and then I told Colin that we were finally going to turn our attention to getting a headstone and, for some reason, that led to all of us crying. So, I told them about the great monkey battle of Bangkok from last week (https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2020/03/12/lopburis-monkeys-food-war-blamed-on-plunge-in-tourism/) which cheered everyone up and which, I’m sure, Colin would have approved of.
And that was that.
Because irony hates us, the German medical system took a moment to send us another bill yesterday, for about 135 euros from the never-ending hospital treatments about his tracheostomy back in July. I’ve kind of given up hoping that this will be the last bill, every time I receive one. But one of them is going to have to be the last one, right?
I wish we could have done more. I wish he were still here and we wouldn’t have needed to do any of it. But I can only make do with what I’ve got and hope we all get through this coronavirus business in one piece.
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Hard to believe it’s been six months. So sorry you have to go through all this coronavirus junk now, too. When I was there you managed to WFH pretty well. But this is a whole different ballgame. I hope you can setup a good home office!