{"id":26271,"date":"2018-08-09T06:39:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=26271"},"modified":"2018-08-07T06:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:41:55","slug":"may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=26271","title":{"rendered":"May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come May, we were back to &#8220;normal,&#8221; at least on the outside &#8211; with the girls back at school and Q and me back at work. Zoe and Avery did really well, all things considered, and looking back I think school was therapeutic for them. They got to escape the sad reality of home for a bit and focus on their school work and friends. It also probably helped that there was so much going on, especially for Zoe &#8211; with highlights being a presentation of her artist\/innovator project (she researched and dressed up as Mary Cassatt &#8211; how cute was she?), the fifth grade tefilah, and a field trip with her mentoring committee. Avery, meanwhile, had a chorus performance and worked at the third grade class sale.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I was as okay as I could have been &#8211; and I continued to be lifted up by the tons of support from our friends and school community. As I wrote in a thank you email to a group of parents:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"yiv8992047811ydpfaefb943yiv6930259332ydpf5c35a90yiv5149293472ydpd5166d0fMsoNormal\">Since my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 accident, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had people sit with me, hold my hand and cry with me, make us dinners, drop off groceries, bring me caramel macchiatos, fold our clothes, sweep our floor, take us to\/from the airport, schlep Zoe and Avery to\/from school or soccer, run my errands, prepare our house for shiva, and send me heartfelt messages of support via sympathy cards, emails, texts and Facebook. I write for a living yet am unable to find the words that adequately describe how much this has meant to me and my family. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thank you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cut it, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all I have right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8992047811ydpfaefb943yiv6930259332ydpf5c35a90yiv5149293472ydpd5166d0fMsoNormal\">My parents were good and kind people (my mom would be the first one to bring a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hotdish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Google it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and sympathy card to a griever\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house), and I know that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re somewhere beaming in happiness over how I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been treated and cared for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-as-Mary-Cassatt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-as-Mary-Cassatt.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-as-Mary-Cassatt-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-at-tefilah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-at-tefilah.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-at-tefilah-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-on-field-trip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-on-field-trip.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Zoe-on-field-trip-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Avery-and-chorus-singing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Avery-and-chorus-singing.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Avery-and-chorus-singing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Avery-at-third-grade-sale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Avery-at-third-grade-sale.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Avery-at-third-grade-sale-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come May, we were back to &#8220;normal,&#8221; at least on the outside &#8211; with the girls back at school and Q and me back at work. Zoe and Avery did really well, all things considered, and looking back I think school was therapeutic for them. 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