We have now been under "social distancing" quarantine/isolation for 2.5 weeks now and I need to make some notes so we don't forget these crazy times!
- Gas in HB is currently $2.35
- School campuses have been officially closed for the rest of the school year with the kids doing "distance learning" via computer and youtube
- California is on lockdown and we are only allowed to leave the house to pick up food, groceries and other necessary supples
- Tape on the floors at grocery stores and other (open) businesses to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other
- Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the stores
- Non-essential stores and business are under mandatory closures; very limited amount of stores remain open. Restaurants can only provide takeout (including alcohol!) and delivery.
- Parks, trails, playgrounds and beaches are closed
- Entire sports seasons are cancelled/postponed (including March Madness!)
- Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events have all been cancelled/postponed
- Weddings, family celebrations and holiday gathers (including Easter!) have been cancelled
- Churches are closed
- What started as no gatherings of more than 250 people reduced to 50 people to 10 people and now you are not to socialize with anyone outside your household
- Shortage of masks and protective gear for healthcare workers, shortage of ventilators for patients
- Panic buying set in and toilet paper, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes are hard to find
- We are all wearing masks when we go out of the house
Mila officially started distance learning on April 1st.
Mila's teacher has been amazing and hosts two Zoom meetings a week, one on Monday morning and one on Friday morning, with office hours every day. Almost all of the assignments she posts is available via a web video or her hosting a YouTube video to teach Math. This is really helpful when I am trying to work from home because I am more of the facilitator and not the teacher.
Nellie is not interested in any kind of homeschooling. We did find the app, ABC Mouse, that she likes so, if we are lucky, we can get her to still long enough for an hour or so of that. She's been watching more TV than I would like, but hey, crazy times.
Nellie lost her first tooth this month and was SO excited. The tooth fairy brought her two $2 bills, which she wanted to spend immediately!
We have been breaking the quarantine rules since the beginning, not knowing how serious it was going to get. The girls have been playing withour neighbor, Leilani, since we were all sent home March 13th and we have been hanging out with her parents as wel; we have been openly communicating that we're not hanging out with other people and neither are they. Her dad is the only one leaving the house for work but he works a boat captain with only one other person. It's really been a blessing for our sanity to have other friends to commiserate in person with and for the girls to be able to play together in the afternoon; I honestly can't imagine our mental health if we weren't able to do that. We would all go insane!
The girls have been getting along amazingly well. We've never been more thankful we have the two of them to keep each other entertained! Both girls are being very attached to having both Robert and I at home and they spend a lot of time loving on Roscoe. If/when things get back to normal I am anticipating a lot of separation sadness/anxiety.
I started a garden this month to pass my time so we will see how my green thumb fares. Hopefully I don't kill everything.
Robert and I are both still working from home full time; he will be until at least the end of May and me, indefinitely, as of now.
What we're lookng forward to next month: Mother's Day, Mommy's birthday, Whitney's Due Date!!!, our Memorial Day weekend camping trip to San Diego (if it doesn't get cancelled)
