We Will Rejoice & Be Glad in it!

March 19^th (Quarantine Day 4)

{s} Today is my 'vacation day' - originally taken to do something fun with the kids, while on Spring Break.  But since the world has decided to come to a screeching halt, this day is turning out to be very similar to the last 3 days...has a certain Groundhog Day feel to it. 😉

After making breakfast (something I seldom do), I decided to change the sheets on the bed.  While this seems like a very mundane task, Mike and I always end up making things overly complicated but equally fun.  The flat sheet kept slipping off, the dog kept laying on the comforter and the pillow cases didn't want to cooperate.  This is when Mike lovingly called us the "Dumb & Dumber Couple".  Seems about right.  

I sent Hannah to pick up Parker so she could get out of the house for bit and when they arrived home, Parker didn't waste any time tormenting the pups; a little tug-o-war with them.  I also made an impromptu Tik Tok with Hannah...kind of surprised she even uploaded it.  

 

By afternoon, we took advantage of the warmer weather; I took Calvin for a long walk while Mike & Parker tossed the baseball around.  Teegan took a soak in the hot tub with us before dinner and the rest of the evening was pretty much a boring blur.  I'm at the point where I'm actually losing track of what day it is.  Not sure I'm going to do well locked inside for any length of time. 

{m} Basically, what she said.  And yes, losing track.  The only thing I can  add is that by now, it has become abundantly clear how we are each dealing with this pandemic differently.  Here's my one liner attempt to summarize:

• Hannah - "When can we go back to school?"
• Parker - "Can I just get out and go to a friend's house already...this is stupid!"
• Teegan - "What's the big deal...and when is dinner going to be ready?"
• Sarah - "Do we really need to be treated like caged animals...let us out!"
• Me - "What's the latest update?  How many now?  Who do we know who has it?"

At the end of day, we started to realize how differing our opinions were and ultimately came up with a plan on how we should be communicating information to the kids.  There was a happy medium somewhere between the world is ending and let's just play video games...and we agreed the main focus should be in alignment with what the experts and government were telling us.  We would try to  just focus on the next 15 days and then re-assess.  This is hard to do with a house full of high anxiety planners, but we would persevere. 

March 20^th (Quarantine Day 5)

{s} I found myself having a very difficult time falling asleep last night; so many things occupying my thoughts but the one thing that kept replaying in my mind was an old hymnal song I learned in church as a child; "This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it."  I'm quickly finding myself becoming a bit more cynical right now and only a quick 5 days into this quarantine nonsense, losing sight of the positive things.  So - as I write this, I'm going to rejoice the sun is shinning, Mike & I have jobs that allows us to work remote and even though they are bored to tears, children that are happy & healthy. 

{m} Since Teegan would be starting virtual learning on Monday and since he was going to his mom's today (and I wouldn't see him until Wednesday), I decided to sit down and walk through expectations of what was to come in the following week.  It seemed his teachers were mostly prepared and had various material out there for him already.  Still, I know this is going to be adjustment for all the kids. Other than that, this day consisted of more federal, state, and county Corona updates, watching some TV with Sarah, working on some music, and making some homemade pizza, which turned out far worse than my expectations.  I think at this point, everyone is getting a bit more on each other's nerves.  Negativity is settling in much quicker than before and our happy home is slowly becoming surrounded by the doom and gloom clouds lingering outside.