Photography by Lori Wilson
THE ORR FAMILY
Crystal, Travis, Jonathan and Emilio, and Crystal’s parents, Simona and Raul Lozano
HOW IT STARTED: Crystal is a stay-at-home mom, and her kids had planned to go to parents’ day out at Kessler Park United Methodist Church twice over spring break. Travis owns an environmental service company with his brother, and he still went to work. So it wasn’t a big change from their old normal.
HOW IT’S GOING: Unlike many, the Orrs’ biggest challenge has been boredom. But they took the opportunity to get to know their neighborhood better. They started walking on Stevens Park Golf Course every day while it was closed, sometimes taking picnics out on the grass. They made several new friends that way, and they became very close with their next-door neighbors, Padrum and Lindsay Panbechi, whose kids are around the same age as the Orr boys. They formed a pandemic bubble together. “I don’t know if we would’ve gotten to know each other under normal circumstances,” she says.
