Day 5 - Picnic with Grandparents

Keeping 6 ft. away from the Grandparents. 

Friday March 20, 2020
Status report:

WA State Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 1524 (+148)
WA State Confirmed COVID-19 deaths: 83 (+9)
US Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 19300 (+5100)

US Confirmed COVI-19 deaths: 250 (+63)

More states have issued stay at home orders. I think New York, California, and Illinois are all on order to stay at home except for essential needs (groceries, emergency medical care, work that can't be done at home). Not enough yet though. The US Canadian and Mexican borders have both been mutually restricted to only the most urgent border crossings. But people aren't staying home. The spring break beaches in Florida, etc. are full of people. 

Friday Fun Day

We have planned on Fun Fridays every week. No expectations of math or project work. Instead, we will do art, watch a documentary, or play a game. Today we watched The Crimson Wing on Disney+. Now Betty wants to play a game all the time where she's a baby flamingo that hatches out of her egg and stretches up tall and takes her first step. And then she goes back into her egg to do it all over again. (After that point in the documentary, some baby flamingos get eaten by predators. So she doesn't seem to want to go past baby's first steps in her game)

In general, we aren't too bothered by social distancing. We have enjoyed it. We are apparently a family of introverts. But we sure have missed our Grandma and Grandpa that live just 5 mins. away. So today they came over for a social distancing picnic!

We set up a quarantine picnic table for them that was a good 6 feet away from our family table outside. We got to chat, the kids showed off their art work and Betty danced around them. But we kept everyone back. We blew kisses and did air hugs. It was tough for the kids to not snuggle their grandparents, but so good to just see them. And it was such a great sunny day.

Sabrina shows off her Origami to the quarantine table

For dinner, we decided to support local businesses and order pizza from Juliano's. They have ridiculously yummy pizza with like 4 or 5 xs the normal amount of toppings. Definitely fork pizza. Yum.

The Hurricane. Alex's favorite pizza.

We finished up the night by snuggling up to a couple of episodes of The Kindness Diaries.
I binged this show with my dad last month when I stayed with him in Utah. It is such a powerful show. It has changed how I think about life. Really. I think about this show and it's lessons often. Being kind has always been really important to me, and this show is all about kindness. Check it out. It's great for the whole family. You can catch season 1 on Prime Video and Season 2 on BYUtv or Netflix.



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