Quarantine Week 1
3/20/2020
Well, it's been a week now since everything started being cancelled due to the Coronavirus / COVID-19.
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, life was still chugging as usual with lots of chatter about Corona. There were a couple cases in Indiana but none nearby. But by Friday (March 13), the government was calling for no large group gatherings (of 250+ people). Local schools were closing for a few days to access the situation and most churches were cancelling Sunday servies.
We worshipped at home as a family on Sunday, thankful for our church's livestream service.
On Monday, the government began to limit group gatherings down to fewer than 100 people and shortly after down to 10 people. My husband worked the full day but brought home his computer, as he was told to work from home the rest of the week.
Our Tuesday Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) group was cancelled for the indefinite future. Our Wednesday morning homeschool co-op was cancelled at least for this week, but shortly after was cancelled indefinitely. All church activities that take place at the church building have been cancelled. Suddenly our calendar became very, very cleared.
By Wednesday, our local mayor had issued orders for citizens to stay home as much as possible and now no group gatherings of even less than 10 people were being encouraged. And if you must be in public, "social distancing" became the theme, encouraging at least 6 feet of distance between yourself and the general public. All schools closed for the next 3-5 weeks, moving to e-learning.
So as a family we have had more together time than normal. What did we do with that time?
We popped popcorn for a snack.
We did a 1,000 piece puzzle in around 24 hours!
We cooked more from scratch, including these yummy cinnamon sugar muffins.
We decided that during this Quarantine of 2020, we would accept the Bored Game Challenge. We got out every board/card game that we own and put in a visible spot, on top of our hutch. Over the next few weeks, our goal is to play every game at least once.
Rubiks Race was played this week. It was a Christmas gift that had remained unopened until now.
Cootie was a hit with our younger set.
We also played Memory, Scrabble and Exploding Kittens but didn't get any pictures.
We had silly fun with fruits and veggies.
We did drive to the grocery store one day and found these two geese on a neighbor's rootfop to be entertaining, as even they practiced social distancing. :-)
And Dad worked from home, thankful he still has a job and is able to telecommute.
We also tackled more cleaning around the house than we normally do. Spring cleaning 2020 should be phenomenal, as nobody can use the excuse that they didn't have time to get to it!
Also during this time, my oldest daughter was sick with what turned out to be a double ear infection and a sinus infection. So we took her to urgent care last weekend for the initial diagnosis and round one of antibiotics. When she didn't see improvement by mid-week, we then took her to her regular doctor to follow up. She received a second antibiotic and thankfully is getting better now.
A lot of lives are very disrupted right now. Ours, not so much. Since we homeschool regularly, our days remain generally the same, with the exception of extra things like church activities and co-op being cancelled. We've still gone out to the doctor, the gas station, the pharmacy, the grocery store. Church and small group are now done virtually, but we are able to stay somewhat connected.
In our home, we feel a very low level of anxiety, however, there's a lot of fodder for conversation with the oldest kids about how the world is in a panic (losing their collective minds, as we say) going into hoarding mode and hunkering down out of a fear.
Everything seems to be changing very rapidly.
We'll see what another week brings.
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