Saturday March 28, 2020
Status report:
WA State Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 4340 (+2517 since last week)
WA State Confirmed COVID-19 deaths: 189 (+95 since last week)
US Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 116,000 (+92000 since last week)
US Confirmed COVI-19 deaths: 1900 (+1600 since last week)
Monday- WA gets a stay at home order
Hospitals are running low on Personal Protection Equipment (masks, gloves, shields, gowns, etc.)
New York's outbreak has exploded
The US is now leading the world in number of reported cases
Testing in the US is still very limited. Only those who are very vulnerable and have severe symptoms are tested. Oh, and rich or powerful people. The rest of us just have to guess.
Less than daily blog...
Well, look at that. I didn't blog daily. I didn't blog at all last week. Rather than try to go back and write about each day, I'll just blog about this past week in general.
I thought that this week was Spring Break. On Monday my kids went out to see if the Breakfast Bus was going to still bring food, and we were surprised to learn that 1) Spring Break is next week and 2) Due to the WA state governor initiating the Stay Home / Stay Healthy order, Monday was the last day of the Breakfast Bus. (Bummer! We were really enjoying the breakfast bus stopping at our house! We can still go pick up food at the school, but we haven't done that this week).
Anyway, we decided that it totally doesn't matter when Spring Break is, so we had Spring Break last week.
What does that even mean? What does Spring Break even look like when you are quarantined? We decided that for us, Spring Break meant lots and lots of TV and video games, no "have to do" projects or worksheets, and mom gets to sleep in. (Yay!)
7 Things That Went Great This Week
1- Betty is learning to play independently. This often involves giant messes. It's a trade off--having to play with her every moment and give her all my attention OR let her play by herself and trash the house. . But she's cute, so that helps.
We're playing a lot of princess, doctor, and babies these days.
2- My storage bins and lazy susans arrived, and everything fit exactly as planned. I love it when that happens! Here's hoping this plan will help us be able to see and reach the stuff in the pantry.
My deep pantry--now with pull out bins.
These are industrial bins, designed to hold things like metal pipes. So hopefully they will hold up well to heavy cans and jars.
2 Lazy Susans. Each fits 2 dozen cans.
3. We watched a lot of TV. Edgar and Sabrina discovered and binged Gravity Falls on Disney+. Betty found a new show on Prime called Jessie and Nessie. The only problem is there are only 5 episodes. So, you know, she's watched them each about 2549 times.
Alex and I are watching the Marvel movies. We just watched Infinity Wars. Man, that was depressing. Edgar is watching them too, but he's behind us (so that we can screen which ones are okay. If we decide it's not appropriate for him, we show him a YouTube Iron Man in 5 Minutes sort of thing). Edgar just finished Thor Ragnarok. I really liked that one.
And as a family we watched Flight of the Navigator, the Shaggy Dog, and Candleshoe. All were awesome.
4. Lots of reading. Both my big kids are really into the Wings of Fire books (a series about dragons). So we bit the bullet and ordered the first 10 books on Scholastic. They came this week and the kids are devouring them.
I put down my fun kid series (Charley Bones), and now I'm catching up on some Michael Connelly books. I guess I needed more adrenaline in my life? Alex just read Edgar Allen Poe's The Red Death. Because, pandemic.
5. SABRINA RODE HER BIKE! Woohoo! And I didn't get a photo. Sad. But she did it. She took up Alex's challenge and won her first 2 out of 3 races against him. And she crashed hard and landed on her rear. But she did it! She and Alex went and got Dairy Queen and had a fun date (drive-thru).
6. We had a garage social distancing picnic with the Grandparents. It was raining, so our picnic plans were in danger. But Grandma had the brilliant idea to picnic in the garage! I insisted on bringing our own table and chairs and setting up half in and half out the garage, and the folks set up way back in the garage. We enjoyed chatting and the kids gave air hugs.
Garage Picnic! Note, the Grandparents are at least 6 feet away from us.
Air Hugs!
7. We reached out and chatted with some loved ones. I finally got Marco Polo and the kids and I had fun sending video messages to cousins and aunties and Grandma Vickie. Yay for technology!
4 Things That Were Hard This Week
1. I had a super awful royal headache on Thursday. I hid in our library and read my book in dim light with the door closed. I started and finished a book that day. It was really nice to just hide and be alone a bit. Not that I was alone all day. Betty and I are pretty attached, so she popped in and out and played pretty quietly in the library. She played that she was a librarian. She set up suggested books in the window sills and kept suggesting books for me to read. She didn't understand why I would just read the SAME book ALL DAY. Grown ups are boring.
2. We got new training wheels and a new helmet for Betty so she could ride her bike too. It was hard. She was so excited about it, but when it came down to riding, she struggled. She wasn't pedaling and felt really nervous. She finally declared, "This is too difficult!" and wouldn't ride anymore. We're apparently really bad at teaching kids to ride their bikes. We are just now finally bribing our 9- and 10-year-olds into riding. We were hoping to do better with Betty. We'll see.
3. Betty was really really really missing people this week. She misses her Utah family. She misses her preschool friends. She misses her Auntie Dani and Uncle Todd and yesterday she was very upset because she was missing her Uncle Karl. She had me take this picture of her the other night and send a text to her preschool friends to tell them she was missing them. There were some big tears.
Sad Betty is missing all of her people
4. We continue to have kiddos climbing in bed with us in the middle of the night with random fears or worries. We are having fun days, but we are all super-aware of what's happening in the world.
US Confirmed COVI-19 deaths: 1900 (+1600 since last week)
Monday- WA gets a stay at home order
Hospitals are running low on Personal Protection Equipment (masks, gloves, shields, gowns, etc.)
New York's outbreak has exploded
The US is now leading the world in number of reported cases
Testing in the US is still very limited. Only those who are very vulnerable and have severe symptoms are tested. Oh, and rich or powerful people. The rest of us just have to guess.
Less than daily blog...
I thought that this week was Spring Break. On Monday my kids went out to see if the Breakfast Bus was going to still bring food, and we were surprised to learn that 1) Spring Break is next week and 2) Due to the WA state governor initiating the Stay Home / Stay Healthy order, Monday was the last day of the Breakfast Bus. (Bummer! We were really enjoying the breakfast bus stopping at our house! We can still go pick up food at the school, but we haven't done that this week).
Anyway, we decided that it totally doesn't matter when Spring Break is, so we had Spring Break last week.
What does that even mean? What does Spring Break even look like when you are quarantined? We decided that for us, Spring Break meant lots and lots of TV and video games, no "have to do" projects or worksheets, and mom gets to sleep in. (Yay!)
7 Things That Went Great This Week
1- Betty is learning to play independently. This often involves giant messes. It's a trade off--having to play with her every moment and give her all my attention OR let her play by herself and trash the house. . But she's cute, so that helps.
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| We're playing a lot of princess, doctor, and babies these days. |
2- My storage bins and lazy susans arrived, and everything fit exactly as planned. I love it when that happens! Here's hoping this plan will help us be able to see and reach the stuff in the pantry.
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| My deep pantry--now with pull out bins. |
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| These are industrial bins, designed to hold things like metal pipes. So hopefully they will hold up well to heavy cans and jars. |
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| 2 Lazy Susans. Each fits 2 dozen cans. |
3. We watched a lot of TV. Edgar and Sabrina discovered and binged Gravity Falls on Disney+. Betty found a new show on Prime called Jessie and Nessie. The only problem is there are only 5 episodes. So, you know, she's watched them each about 2549 times.
Alex and I are watching the Marvel movies. We just watched Infinity Wars. Man, that was depressing. Edgar is watching them too, but he's behind us (so that we can screen which ones are okay. If we decide it's not appropriate for him, we show him a YouTube Iron Man in 5 Minutes sort of thing). Edgar just finished Thor Ragnarok. I really liked that one.
And as a family we watched Flight of the Navigator, the Shaggy Dog, and Candleshoe. All were awesome.
4. Lots of reading. Both my big kids are really into the Wings of Fire books (a series about dragons). So we bit the bullet and ordered the first 10 books on Scholastic. They came this week and the kids are devouring them.
I put down my fun kid series (Charley Bones), and now I'm catching up on some Michael Connelly books. I guess I needed more adrenaline in my life? Alex just read Edgar Allen Poe's The Red Death. Because, pandemic.
5. SABRINA RODE HER BIKE! Woohoo! And I didn't get a photo. Sad. But she did it. She took up Alex's challenge and won her first 2 out of 3 races against him. And she crashed hard and landed on her rear. But she did it! She and Alex went and got Dairy Queen and had a fun date (drive-thru).
6. We had a garage social distancing picnic with the Grandparents. It was raining, so our picnic plans were in danger. But Grandma had the brilliant idea to picnic in the garage! I insisted on bringing our own table and chairs and setting up half in and half out the garage, and the folks set up way back in the garage. We enjoyed chatting and the kids gave air hugs.
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| Garage Picnic! Note, the Grandparents are at least 6 feet away from us. |
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| Air Hugs! |
4 Things That Were Hard This Week
1. I had a super awful royal headache on Thursday. I hid in our library and read my book in dim light with the door closed. I started and finished a book that day. It was really nice to just hide and be alone a bit. Not that I was alone all day. Betty and I are pretty attached, so she popped in and out and played pretty quietly in the library. She played that she was a librarian. She set up suggested books in the window sills and kept suggesting books for me to read. She didn't understand why I would just read the SAME book ALL DAY. Grown ups are boring.
2. We got new training wheels and a new helmet for Betty so she could ride her bike too. It was hard. She was so excited about it, but when it came down to riding, she struggled. She wasn't pedaling and felt really nervous. She finally declared, "This is too difficult!" and wouldn't ride anymore. We're apparently really bad at teaching kids to ride their bikes. We are just now finally bribing our 9- and 10-year-olds into riding. We were hoping to do better with Betty. We'll see.
3. Betty was really really really missing people this week. She misses her Utah family. She misses her preschool friends. She misses her Auntie Dani and Uncle Todd and yesterday she was very upset because she was missing her Uncle Karl. She had me take this picture of her the other night and send a text to her preschool friends to tell them she was missing them. There were some big tears.
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| Sad Betty is missing all of her people |
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