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| My day: organizing this mess |
Thursday March 19, 2020
Status report:
WA State Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 1376 (+189)WA State Confirmed COVID-19 deaths: 74 (+8)
US Confirmed COVID-19 cases: 14200 (+6503)
US Confirmed COVI-19 deaths: 187 (+46)
Not a ton of updates today. Things are progressing. California has issued a shelter-in-place mandate. Washington state governor says he's not ready to do that. yet.
School day
Today was just more of the same. Another good day. I was preoccupied today with our pantry.
Being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, it is ingrained in me to have a good food and emergency supply. And we were doing a fairly good job of that before we moved a year ago. But, in preparation to move, we stopped buying a lot of groceries and ate our food storage, so we wouldn't have to move it. So, that's fine, but that means we weren't as prepared as we could have been.
I didn't panic-buy groceries. But when I shopped last weekend, I did get a little more canned food / baking supplies than usual. And then I had grocery bags all over the floor because my pantry was full (and a mess).
So today I spent time unloading, organizing, and planning a solution for our pantry/food storage.
It's still a mess. But it's an organized mess! I bought some industrial bins to place in our deep (over 2 ft.) pantry shelves. They will hopefully act like a drawer so that we can get to the stuff in the back of the closet. And a double layer lazy susan for some canned food.
The kids did good work. We did another art tutorial. This one was by Carson Ellis, the amazing illustrator of The Wildwood series (and the wife of the author/musician Colin Meloy).
Not a ton of updates today. Things are progressing. California has issued a shelter-in-place mandate. Washington state governor says he's not ready to do that. yet.
School day
Today was just more of the same. Another good day. I was preoccupied today with our pantry.
Being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, it is ingrained in me to have a good food and emergency supply. And we were doing a fairly good job of that before we moved a year ago. But, in preparation to move, we stopped buying a lot of groceries and ate our food storage, so we wouldn't have to move it. So, that's fine, but that means we weren't as prepared as we could have been.
I didn't panic-buy groceries. But when I shopped last weekend, I did get a little more canned food / baking supplies than usual. And then I had grocery bags all over the floor because my pantry was full (and a mess).
So today I spent time unloading, organizing, and planning a solution for our pantry/food storage.
It's still a mess. But it's an organized mess! I bought some industrial bins to place in our deep (over 2 ft.) pantry shelves. They will hopefully act like a drawer so that we can get to the stuff in the back of the closet. And a double layer lazy susan for some canned food.
The kids did good work. We did another art tutorial. This one was by Carson Ellis, the amazing illustrator of The Wildwood series (and the wife of the author/musician Colin Meloy).
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| Contour drawings. A guitar pedal. A stuffed fire pillow. A Nintendo Switch. |
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| Betty's sharpie art. "Pikachus" |
This challenge was to do a contour drawing in sharpie--no erasing or going back to fix anything. This was an awesome activity to challenge anxiety and perfectionism--something that Edgar and I both have to fight. Betty was just thrilled to get permission to use a "mommy-daddy marker."
Basically, the kids played outside most of the day, then watched a little tv. I messed with the pantry and Amazon searches.
It was a good day. A sunny day. We'll take it.
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