Sunday, April 5, 2020

Another week of social distancing down. Who knows how many to go. We still can go to the grocery store or drive through for food or to Menard's or things like that, but the hours are curtailed and the virus has reached the county now, so going out is more uneasy. I'm still working from home so it's not like I have nothing to do all day, like a lot of people likely do. But it's getting very tedious, and everything is centered on the busy-work kind of stuff like training and change management. Aside from work, We continue to have church online, and we're meeting with our small group online as well. Alex and Missy have e-learning 3 times a week and they announced late this week that they will not be returning to school for the rest of this year - I'm glad Alex isn't a senior this year - and Missy's school trip to Greece/Italy is in serious doubt, verging on certainty that the trip will be cancelled. They're on spring break this week, no vacation this year. Natalie was on spring break last week. Beth and I weren't sure exactly what we were going to do for spring break since the kids have different break weeks, but that decision was made for us before we made any plans.....Trey set up a version of game lunch for the group on Friday, since we haven't been able to play in a few weeks; we played Jackbox together while we were all on a video conference call and he was sharing his computer screen. It worked well, and we had fun....for a weekend project, and since the CDC is now going back and saying maybe face masks would be a good idea after all, I found a good and simple pattern for a pleated face mask on the Joann Fabrics website and Beth and I spent the weekend sewing some up. They tie in the back of the head, and the pleats make it easy to cover your whole face, and they're washable! I made a couple for the ladies across the street as well and some for all of us.....we took a family walk together on the Beyer Farm trail Sunday since it finally warmed up some then..... otherwise, we were pretty much all home all the time. This next week is supposed to be a bad one.