This photo was shot by my wife, Amy Marquez, it’s of myself Leo Marquez and my daughter Kairi working on a paper mache volcano that we put together as a family. We didn’t build this for a school project but simply just for fun because during this pandemic that has been what we have strived to continue to do, is have fun. Parks are not open and if they are we don’t feel safe taking out child there because no one is sanitizing the slides or the swings and we don’t want to risk any of us getting COVID. This pandemic has truly forced us to get extra creative in all parts of our life and I feel like this picture is a great representation of that. I, Leo, spend 24 hours of my day everyday with my daughter because she is remote learning and I work from home most days unless I have to be on campus at Delta to do an equipment checkout as I work in the Radio-Television department. Everything we do is at home, so it’s little things as simple as building this paper mache volcano and watching it erupt to bring that excitement and that fun and keep the positive energy going because without this everyday is just that much harder. If anything I have only gotten closer with my family over the period of this pandemic. So despite it being frustrating that things aren’t normal, we truly have made the best of it. PHOTO COURTESY LEO MARQUEZ
