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Before the Earth Stood Still

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January Early 2020. Hard to think back to this time before the world as we knew it would be forever changed. This seems like yesterday and also like a lifetime ago. For everyone on the planet 2020 was a difficult year, to say the least. For some more than others. I would venture to say that we were some of the lucky ones. Our business didn't suffer, and our kids remained healthy, unvaccinated, and mostly oblivious to the horrors going on around them. The difficult parts for us were mostly in the emotional challenges  as well as building a house in a time when people stopped working and supply chains dried up. As if building a house isn't hard enough, building it in a shut down world is a whole new level of stress and frustration. But in January, February, and even into March, we were still unaware of what was to come. The world was calm and we were still enjoying life as usual. The kids really enjoyed the home building process. We would regularly head out to the property and sh