Celebrating the Spring Holy Days at home, alone this year. #Eastover

Spring of 2020 will forever be remembered at the Spring we stayed at home. The weeks and months when many of us closed our businesses, stopped going out to eat, watched our families and friends struggle with illness, as we sat glued to our computers, our phones, and our TV's, trying to stay informed and in touch with a world of shut-ins.

We are walking our dogs twice as often as before, singing from our balconies, creating entertaining family videos, we are wondering when things will get back to normal. Will we ever feel safe in an airplane, at a sporting event or a concert? We love our families and this time together has been a silver lining for many, but there are numerous challenges for parents who must work and kids are left to home-school on their own.

Whether sick, scared, bewildered, cabin fevered, perhaps in equal measure, a virus called COVID-19 has collected the world in its grip. No visitors at nursing homes and hospitals, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and funerals cancelled and postponed, babies born in a chaotic atmosphere and many who still face serious illnesses in the middle of treatments for other diseases. No friends will be invited over to celebrate Passover or Easter. We are alone and on our own; but it will not be forever.

It has been an isolating and lonely time for many of our friends and loved ones and a grueling period for all hospital workers, grocery store employees, restaurant owners, truck drivers and essential workers. Thank you to all the volunteers, our men and women far away in the military, to all the first responders, news reporters and to each and every person who has been kind to someone who needed that extra virtual hug.

We are still working remotely. We are offering virtual consultations and helping several buyers and sellers during this confusing period. This is new territory for all of us and we are charting a new course each day, together.

We will not be shaking hands for a long time, but we will bow and greet you with genuine delight, on the day when the Governor Phil Murphy says we can all be together.

From all of us to all of you, may this very different holiday be meaningful and memorable, even if you must spend it alone. Pick up the phone and share a drink over the phone. Learn how to facetime or use Google meet or Zoom video chat, and have a conversation with friends and loved ones. Send texts to your friends and share photos. Find the silver lining if you are healthy, and know that next year it should be better. Hope will help all of us get through this.

We can't wait to see you all again! #StaySafe #StayHome #StayHealthy #FlattenTheCurve

We are in this together.