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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

It's been a good week. We saw my parents for the first time in almost a year last weekend and now my mother-in-law is visiting us at home (we also hadn't seen her in almost a year). All of our parents are fully vaccinated and we are a few days away from it ourselves. It's a relief to be able to finally be around our family after so much time apart. I really feel for the families who are separated by borders and for so many different reasons. It's tough. On another note, I am extremely saddened by the news of the condo collapse in Florida. It's such a tragedy and unthinkable that such a thing could happen in the US. I don't know personally anyone involved there, but it's just incredibly sad. I've read today that they found the bodies of two children, one the age of my daughter (4). I kept thinking about this tonight as I was putting her to bed, thinking how lucky I am to be able to hold her in my arms and hear her giggles - I held her a little closer tonight. Any loss of life is too much, and we've experienced so much of it in the past year, I find it difficult sometimes to read the news, and it's just more sadness and tragic events. It's wearing us out.