Over the course of this past weekend, I personally made 24 home deliveries, quite a few of these to people who have not previously purchased from us. It is always very exciting to make these deliveries, especially when I get to chat with the customer I am delivering to. This covid 19 outbreak has certainly cut down on the number of conversations I am having while delivering but it hasn’t eliminated them and I made an observation while I was out this weekend. Everybody was at home.
This may seem obvious with a statewide stay at home order, but it is still quite noticeable and different from what my delivery routes were like when all of this began. It led me to think about the value of being at home. When we are all at home, we’re talking to each other, playing with the kids and the dogs, and (of particular interest to me) cooking together.
In my opinion, there is such a value to cooking together, and eating together. Cooking can often have us do things we haven’t quite done before, maybe things that push us outside our comfort zone. Cooking is a great thing to get your kids into as well. It also leads us to eat together, like literally together. When you put effort into preparing a meal, I believe you’re more likely to sit down as a family and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
I know there are a lot of people who can’t wait for life to open back up, and in some ways I am one of those people. But I also think this is a great chance for us to stay at home, to spend time with the people we love, to try new things together, and hopefully even cook a meal together. I know we’re all ready for this to be over and for businesses to open back up and people to get back to work. That being said, I hope we can see this time for the blessing that it can present. And hopefully when all of this is over we keep a few of the positive elements from this experience.
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