The new normal: Art, donations, snuggles, and super fun snacks

At left, Layla showing off one of her paintings. At right the ladies’ entire gallery.

Greendale personal banker Samantha Damman and daughter Layla found a way to keep busy during the stay-at-home order. “We both have taken up painting,” Sam says. “Soon our walls will be full of paintings.”

The food collected by Robin’s bunko group.

“My subdivision has a bunco group that meets every month at one of the neighbors’ homes,” Burlington branch manager Robin Callis says. “Because we could not get together for our April date (and Zoom seemed too complicated for the 20-plus of us), I suggested that we each take the $5 we would have spent to play and purchase something for the local food pantry.” Robin and her husband delivered the items this past Saturday. The group also donated $45 in cash for perishable items.

Jarvis, getting cozy.

“My daughter Stephanie lives four hours away in Bloomington, Illinois, and she works in a hospital,” CRE commercial processing team lead Priscilla Hartling says. ‘We send a little note to each other via email, Facebook, or text every day. I think it helps her feel like she is ‘home,’ and it definitely helps me know she is OK. She is also a graduate student and is finishing up the semester.” Last week, Stephanie sent along the photo of her ferret, Jarvis, snuggling next to her while she studied. “It truly is the little things,” Priscilla says.

Owl.

Cats in the Hat.

Caterpillar, very hungry.

Bird.

And AVP and senior mortgage loan originator Stephanie Glowinski-Moeller says she is “juggling mortgage loan closings, generating new loans, educating my children with virtual learning, and trying to keep smiling.” So every weekday, she surprises son Gavin with a healthy afternoon snack. “His teachers told us they get excited each day to see what it will be.” Stephanie says she finds her ideas online and has been getting ideas from friends and family, too, since she started posting the snack photos on Facebook. She adds: “I am also creating a book of all of them for my son, to remember how much fun we had with our virtual learning in 2020.”

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