Week 305 - 5 years & 30 weeks

3/22-3/28

• This was our second week home due to COVID-19. 
• -Gas price a mile from home was $1.40
• -School cancelled - yes cancelled (students left March 13 and not sure if they’ll return)
• -Self-distancing measures on the rise.
• -Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.
• -Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.
• -Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
• -Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
• -Entire sports seasons cancelled.
• -Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
• -Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
• -No masses, churches are closed.
• -No gatherings of 50 or more, then 10 or more, now no gatherings of 5 or more.
• -Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
• -Children's outdoor play parks are closed.
• -We are to distance from each other.
• -Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
• -Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
• -Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
• -Shelves are bare.
• -Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
• -Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
• -Fines are established for breaking the rules.
• -Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
• -Press conferences daily from the President. -Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
• -Government incentives to stay home.
• -Barely anyone on the roads.
• -People wearing masks and gloves outside.
• -Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
• -Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
• This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.

We had a hard time this week homeschooling Lyla & keeping up with work. Now that we will be home a while I need to figure out how to work this better. We did setup different stations with different activities to keep her busy.

One thing we’ve enjoyed is being able to get right outside for a quick break or after work. It’s felt so good.

I finally got outside with Harper for what will probably be the last snow of the season. 

Dads hair was getting so long he let lyla cut it short.