What are the first things you want to do once this pandemic is over?

[mommyoffive]

When this is over, what are the first things you want to do?    When life resumes back to normal with schools, businesses, lessons, and work all back open what do you want to do first? 

[athena1277]

Go to church.

Eat in a restaurant.

Go shopping, even if I don’t buy anything.

Go to the library.

 

[Pawz4me]

Sit down and be waited on in a restaurant (and leaving the waiter/waitress a very generous tip).

Go to the grocery store, take my time shopping and enjoy taking my pick from the FULL shelves.

Buy a small freezer and fill it with some of ^^those^^ groceries.

[desertflower]

Restaurant!

[prairiewindmomma]

Get a haircut.

I have essentially been out of society since mid-December as I fell quite ill, then ds needed surgery, then I needed surgery, and then the whole dang world fell apart. 

[klmama]

Visit my in-laws.  

Get the dog groomed.

Go to a restaurant.

[Ali in OR]

Go to the library
Go out to eat
Go to work (believe it or not)

[Slache]

Buy a car. We have a 5 seater car and I'm having our 4th baby (oops!) in September. I don't think it's still legal to strap the older ones on the roof.

[I talk to the trees]

Obedience classes! (For the dog, not me, if any of you are wondering!) I am trying to work with the puppy every day, but the thing she needs the most work on is polite behavior around others, and that can be a wee bit difficult to work on WITHOUT OTHER PEOPLE AND DOGS! 🙄

[SounderChick]

Moms night out a restaurant with food and friends and no kids.

Get a tattoo!!

 

 

[regentrude]

throw a party. or several. Definitely several.

And go visit my daughter

Edited March 23, 2020 by regentrude

[prairiewindmomma]

Actually. Scratch the haircut.  I want to go for a long car ride and go hike and see some waterfalls.

[Soror]

Go out without worrying about catching or spreading this virus. 

Work out with my friend. 

Take the kids to TKD.

 

[mathnerd]

Walk into places with lots of people and activity. Even though I am an introvert, I spend a lot of time around people though I do not interact much with them. I miss people!

[fairfarmhand]

Dd18: mom, when this is over can we have a party to celebrate?

me: YES! I’ll invite everyone I know

go to church 

sing in the church choir.

[purpleowl]

Go to church.

Meet my best friend's new baby.

Eat at a restaurant.

Go visit my parents, or have them visit us (they canceled a planned visit here).

Take kids to their activities. 

[Miss Tick]

Sit quietly by myself in the car waiting for some kid to finish an activity.

[stephanier.1765]

If this goes on long enough and it looks that it might, I will miss the birth of my grandson. So meeting him will be top priority. Before his birth I had planned a visit to my granddaughter so that we could, for one last time, have one on one time together. That visit will almost certainly be cancelled. 

[*Jessica*]

Throw my grandfather a 90th birthday party!  

[Kassia]

6 minutes ago, stephanier.1765 said:

If this goes on long enough and it looks that it might, I will miss the birth of my grandson. So meeting him will be top priority. Before his birth I had planned a visit to my granddaughter so that we could, for one last time, have one on one time together. That visit will almost certainly be cancelled. 

 

How disappointing.  I'm sorry.  😞

[Carrie12345]

Let everyone else run around like crazy and wait to see if the curve starts going back up.

Edited March 23, 2020 by Carrie12345

[ikslo]

Huh.  Amazingly, nothing.  I’ve enjoyed the last three weeks very much.  

Ask me again in a month.

[JustEm]

Invite my siblings and their families over for dinner. My kids really really miss their cousins, who they are used to seeing twice a week usually.

[Slache]

11 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said:

Let everyone else run around like crazy and wait to see if the curve starts going back up.

No, I think we mean like completely over. When it's no longer a threat.

Someone mentioned parties. No one's having a party until it's safe.

[Acorn]

See my parents 

Go backpacking in the wilderness(which will probably be overcrowded since everyone else with postponed plans will too)

Get a kitten

[mlktwins]

Go to the grocery store where I can buy what I want to buy with no worry about whether I can get pasta, milk, or tp.

Take my dad out to do all the things I didn't use to enjoy doing with him (grocery shopping, banking, hair cuts, doctor appts).  I will not take that for granted again.

Get my boys back to normal classes and swimming.

[lauraw4321]

Church.

Travel.

Eat in a restaurant.

Library. I MISS THE LIBRARY!

Go to work in my pleasant office.

Drop my kids off at activities they enjoy.

[Wheres Toto]

Take a vacation.

Get back to the gym, get dd back to TKD.

Get back to teaching my classes.

[Violet Crown]

Bring the girls to visit their cousins and grandparents: 20 minutes drive from here, and they might as well be on the moon.

Go to Mass and light a candle for the repose of the souls of those who succumbed to this awful sickness.

Go to Torchy's and eat a pile of brisket tacos. (Please imagine being a normal Texan quarantined with a bunch of vegetarians.)

ETA: BUY A NEW REFRIGERATOR. The main cabinet is set to maximum cold so half the food won't spoil; so instead half of it is frozen solid. And twice a day I wipe up the condensation from the ceiling of it as it drips down onto the food. This fridge was a cheap little box 20 years ago and it is not covering itself with glory in these quarantine days.

 

Edited March 23, 2020 by Violet Crown

[I talk to the trees]

I have another one: 

Stop counting squares. I’m tired of counting squares. I want to pull from the roll with reckless abandon! 

[Kathy in Richmond]

Visit my new granddaughter who'll be born in May in San Francisco.

Go to daily Mass again and the gym.

See my daughter in San Diego and my mom in PA.

 

[Tanaqui]

I will kick my entire family out and watch TV alone. ALONE.

[egao_gakari]

Daily Mass! And bra shopping and a haircut, which were going to be my birthday presents... birthday got kinda cancelled this year 😞

[barnwife]

Go to church. Get the haircut I was supposed to get this week. And go to an amazing local used bookstore. Support a local secondhand store. Go to the library. 

[importswim]

Fly to England to see my parents.

[Storygirl]

Visit my mother in her nursing home.

There is a long list of other things that I would like to do, but that is at the top. Nursing homes are scary right now, and if she is alive when this is over, I will be praising God.

DH and I will also want to see our other family members, especially his parents and my dad, who are in their 80s.

[regentrude]

Oh, forgot, since that will only work if this ends early enough so it's safe to fly in July: go see my parents in Germany. 

If I can't go then, it'll have to wait a year.

[happi duck]

Zoos! Aquariums! Museums!

[Shoeless]

I want to visit my dad and sisters. I also want to see my relatives in NYC. 

All I want is to see them.

[ScoutTN]

Go to church! I want to worship with my church family, and hear the organ and 1000 voices strong singing glory to our God.

See my mom and give her a hug!

Have my kids go to summer camp. Not that I want to get rid of them, but that they have their hearts set on going and have already had so much snatched away from them. 

[TravelingChris]

Go to the botanical garden.  Go shopping.  Go on a vacation.  Go to church.  Go out to eat.  

[sassenach]

2 hours ago, Slache said:

No, I think we mean like completely over. When it's no longer a threat.

Someone mentioned parties. No one's having a party until it's safe.

When the shelter in place is over: go to church

When we are sure that the curve isn't flying back up after the shelter in place is over: Go to a restaurant 

When this thing is fully done (post-vaccine, I guess): Go to Disneyland

[DawnM]

I will be heading to Disney World as soon as it opens back up (or after school lets out) as my son will be working there as an intern.  I can't wait!

[pitterpatter]

Take a cruise. 🤣 DH really wanted to take one this year. I actually looked at them weeks before the Diamond Princess started her ordeal for the week of March 8th. We're really glad it didn't work out now. They weren't canceling cruises then. I don't see a cruise in our future for quite a while. I really hope travel can get back to normal at some point. This was supposed to be our year of travel. We have a ton of Amtrak points. We were going to ride to Washington D.C. early fall. DD is studying American history this year. We bought these little underseater rolling bags at Christmas so we could take advantage of Frontier's super cheap flights to Denver too. Ah, well. Honestly, I just hope that DH makes it through the next several months. 😟 I want to be able to go out (anywhere) and not have to worry about DH catching it.

[Tanaqui]

1 hour ago, Seasider too said:

 

With no negotiations over what to watch!!!

 

That's the dream.

[KungFuPanda]

Resume dance classes!

And go to Ikea by myself for about 6 hours.

[theelfqueen]

Sit in a restaurant and have someone bring me drinks ir cocktails and snacks while I gab with my friends.

[theelfqueen]

Drop my teen off at the library to hang out and play D&D with his friends.