Item
Apart for Eleven Months
Title (Dublin Core)
Apart for Eleven Months
Description (Dublin Core)
This year, my daughter’s Girl Scout troop, like every other troop in the country, has moved their cookie sales online. Even cookie pick up is strange this year. Instead of having families come by and pick up cookies to sell, I leave the cookies on the porch with the receipt and wave through the window. When my best friend (and co-leader) came with her daughter to pick up cookies, we chatted through the window and took a picture to save the bizarre moment. I mentioned that when another family from the troop came to get cookies, I almost didn’t recognize the girl because she had gotten so tall. My best friend then had the genius idea to take a picture of her daughter by my front door. She said I should take a picture of my daughter so we could compare their heights, as they have been the same size their entire lives. And then she said a statement that shocked me: “I mean, it’ll be a year next month since they’ve actually stood next to each other.” I guess since my best friend and I text almost every day, and have seen each other over Zoom, I hadn’t processed how truly long it has been since we’ve all been physically together. I met my best friend when I was 11, we were college roommates, married guys we were all in the same friend group with in college, had our first kids exactly six months apart from each other, our second kids two months apart from each other, and live 15 minutes away from each other. We have been lock step since we were kids, so not seeing each other for almost a year is insane. As the picture shows, our daughters are still basically the same height, so even apart, we're still lock step. Still, hoping we’ll be able to be together again before the girls grow anymore!
Date (Dublin Core)
January 29, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
photograph
text
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Food & Drink
English
Emotion
English
Social Distance
English
Recreation & Leisure
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
friendship
motherhood
Girl Scout
Girl Scout cookies
hoping
Zoom
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
friendship
motherhood
Girl Scout cookies
height
growth
cookies
Collection (Dublin Core)
Motherhood
Foodways
Children
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
02/13/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/14/2021
03/01/2021
04/20/2022
08/02/2022
09/10/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
01/29/2021
This item was submitted on February 13, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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