Quarantine Weeks 6 & 7

Week 6 and 7 were much better than Week 5. No emergency vet trips, coworkers are a bit more understanding of parents’ situations, so we were in a better place. 

Nora still hates doing her schoolwork at home. It’s a struggle to get her to do one hour - which is all it takes. And she’s smart - she can do it all, she just doesn’t want to. 

The weather has been mostly good which is helpful - lots of sun-filled walks and runs. I’m grateful for a grassy, wooded lot for exploration. We found four new trees growing in our yard! 

This past Saturday was amazing - high of nearly 80. I was able to call in a flower order at our local greenhouse, pay over the phone and pick up. Spent all day outside. We had deliveries from two local breweries 😄Saturday we picked up food from a 3rd brewery. 

Unfortunately all Saturday while driving to our food, people just don’t seem to care about public health. Lack of distancing, nearly zero masks anywhere. The general attitude is selfish and “personal freedom” trumps public health teamwork. It just makes me sad and scared. I truly think there will be a rise in infections by mid-May. I understand it’s hard, especially when the weather becomes nicer, but Ohio’s shelter-in-place is still in effect. 

For God’s sake, people.

That’s not 6' apart.

My office is slowly getting people back in this week (voluntary)... of twenty employees only about five have said they’ll go back. Our desks have to move further apart. We can’t even have meetings anymore, nor sit in the kitchen space. It’s nearly pointless. 

Our school-offered summer camp has been cancelled. One of the college girls who worked there has babysat for our girls and I jumped weeks ago to see if she’d be available to help us this summer and she is. She has been in quarantine this entire time and we trust her. It’s not ideal, but it will be a massive help to Tim and I with our workloads. We can only afford to have her about 6hrs a day, so Tim and I will have to stagger our schedules a bit. Our employers are fairly understanding that parents have a lot of hard logistics during this pandemic. 

Trying to keep my eyes ahead; we have two great jobs, our health, food on the table and a roof over our head. We are doing well, and trying to keep balanced.