So here’s what happened after the first week of the school closures. We woke up Saturday and I knew we would be out of school for quite a while from all the news reports sharing scenarios. I decided to ask O to give me a hair cut, cause we’ll- salons were shutting down to help stop the spread of the virus COVID 19. O jumped at the chance and started out pretty good. O had been shown how to do this by the owner of our favorite hair salon once but I knew what I was getting into. It wasn’t going to be perfect, I just needed it cut. O got pretty far on the sides and back using the right sized guards on the clipper and then I heard “I’m just gonna try this way to get the frizzy parts”. I was like “wait what?!?”. O had done a small chuck before showing me the clippers... without a guard on it. Eek. I did my best, kept my cool and was like... “hey you did awesome, thank you”. Then did the rest on my own. It’s not great but before than before and it ALWAYS grows back.
Lucius used FaceTime to call his cousin and played a few games of chess while we are stuck at home social distancing.
Later in the evening on Saturday my sister called everyone on FaceTime. I think we had about 9 of us on the call.
On Sunday March 22 I baked some bread, a three cheese loaf. Unfortunately stores have been cleaned out of a lot of baking supplies. Jerimy grabbed me white whole wheat flour to use in place of my all purpose flour. So I used it but the kids did not prefer the textural difference of the bread made with the whole wheat. So we cut the second loaf in half and delivered one half to our neighbors who’ve been quarantined for over a week and the other half who have been self isolating themselves to protect the spread of the virus. O walked with me and FaceTimed a friend the whole time. O is so extroverted that this social distancing stuff is hard for them. (The phto below is the friends house that we walked past. She was in the upper right window in an orange shirt and talked to O from there).
I also started hanging our clothes to dry on our indoor clothes rake. It reminds me of our time in Italy.
Sunday evening we FaceTimed my family again and this time I think we had close to 18 family members from five households on the call.
Monday I had to go in to work. I thought that would be the only day Ikd need to work but there was a lot to do so I worked everyday at school. The kiddos stayed home and worked on their schoolwork. Jerimy was told on Tuesday that he would be allowed to work from home 90% of the time. So thankfully he was home to supervise the kids while attempting to work. Monday I handed out food packs to families who drove through to get food for their kids.
Tuesday I borrowed my bossed new game called Otrio and taught the kiddos how to play it. We’ve played it off and on this week. It’s been fun.
Tuesday was also Mormor’s birthday. We met Auntie Emks family in Mormor’s driveway to sing her a song and read a choice your own adventure story with her. I picked up a bunch of these choose your own adventure books from my school’s library on Monday and we’ve been reading them with the nieces and nephews around bedtime over FaceTime. It’s a fun way to stay connected while also mantaining a little less screaming silliness while video chatting.
Wednesday I reported to work in the afternoon and was told I had a huge job of keeping a co-worker calm. I needed to help our tech person get 60 chrome books rehash to deliver to our 5th and 6th graders by the following week. The district didn’t have enough iPads to cover the sheer number of kids in the district that needed a device to do the distance learning. The governor of MN declared a stay at home order starting on Friday and the schools would move forward with distancing learning through April. Schools would remain closed to students till at least May to help the healthcare workers try to find the necessary things to help people fight the virus and save lives.
On Thursday I was back to school to help label chrome books and wrap all the power cords to get us organized. O came with me and helped for a bit but the draw of books was too strong and O spent most of the day reading all the library books in the schools media center. I brought O along cause I knew we would be isolated in a space that only we and the tech person would be using.
We also had stopped by both the kids schools on Thursday to pick up their belongings and distance learning packets. After work we sorted through everything and got organized. Our school space in the living room continues to grow.
On Friday O again choose to come with me. O was able to do a bit of school work remotely while I worked on even more chrome books. We found out we needed to have 90 devices ready by next week to start handing out. Thankfully we were all organized and had 90 ready to go by the end of Friday. Hooray!!
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