Head Tale

Pace in early October…

(Shockingly?) Shea and I didn’t test positive until December…though having a teen who pretty much self-isolates 99% of the time anyhow did help keep the rest of us safe when Pace was the first positive in the family.)

And even though she ended up getting the PCR test twice in the earliest days of Covid and has been sick *a lot* the last few months, a few days ago was (even more shockingly?) the first time Sasha has actually tested positive for Covid.  (All the usual caveats about “Who knows if any of us have had it at any other point in the last three years and just not tested positive for whatever reason.)

The timing sucks as it meant postponing Sasha’s birthday party sleepover for a couple weeks but best that we knew before potentially infecting a bunch of her friends!

She’s not as easy to isolate as her older brother either – because of her age, her more extroverted personality and, in all honesty, Shea and I feeling a lot less worried about being around her since we had Covid less than six months ago and our bivalent boosters just a couple months ago compared to when Pace was the first and only person in the family to test positive originally back in October.)

Bonus: I have a distinct memory of taking this photo and being disappointed I didn’t catch an earlier reading which was higher when Shea and I had Covid…