Irish Cuz Check In

My sister Nic kicked off a WhatsApp chat with our Irish cousins to make sure everyone is doing okay during this worldwide quarantine and It. Is. Everything.

I hope everyone keeps posting to it because this is just a few of the highlights from the first exchange:

• There are people joining I didn’t even know I was related to.  Oh wait.  I knew I was related to Kaylin, but you spell her name  “C-a-o-i-l-f-h-o-i-n-n??”  What does the Starbucks barista do with THAT?  What in the actual hell did your teachers call you on the first day of school?  I am gonna quit complaining about my name-of-the-many-vowels and just know it could have been much, much worse.
• There is something magical known as “tray bakes” in Ireland that are tiding people over. I don’t know what those are, but I want in on the action. 
• Best quote so far - “We will have a massive party when it’s all over. My hair will be great as a badger and I’ll weigh 20 stone, but what odds.”  I am not even sure what that means, but I think it sums up quarantining perfectly.
• There may be some references to alcohol involved.  Less so lent, Easter or mass. 
• My 85-year-old aunt is “missing her yoga”.  Same, Auntie Kay, same.

That was all Day 14 of quarantining.  We will have to check in for updates at Day 42 when I will undoubtedly have some new Irish curse words to add to the update.