COVID19?

So today is April 8, 2020. We still do not have flying cars or anything of the sort, you would think we would be more advanced but the only cool thing about this year is Apple fixed their bug and we can now face time with multiple people at the same time. It feels like instead of moving forward to bigger and better things we have reverted to the stone ages, what am I talking about? let me share with you what this new year has brought us. COVID19, which basically stands for Corona Virus 2019. Apparently brought to us by the nice people of Wuhan, China. There are so many jokes but I will spare you those. So we are literally quarantined. Schools shut down somewhere around the second week of March, and we began online distance learning, a makeshift home school of all things. Can I just say there is a reason I did not go into that field, this has been a mission and we are only on day 3 of it. So let me go back to a month ago when things were scary but we were still out and about enjoying our normal life. So we started hearing about it and thought wow thats horrible thank God it wont affect us, our amazing President (thou which will not be named) promised and almost swore we had nothing to worry about, that should have been our first real sign of danger, anyways kids were still in school parents were still working and we were just watching it unfold. Then it jumped to Italy, you know everyone travels and usually just brings their luggage. Well this was the exception, now they were not only bringing luggage in the form of clothes and toiletries, nope they were carrying the deadly virus that no one really knew anything about. So it jumped from Italy to the great United States of America. The schools then shut down but it was so scary we all knew we were in for trouble when they shut down Disneyland and then canceled baseball and basketball season as well. This was very concerning, we heard from our Church leaders, that was also canceled. We waited to hear what else they were canceling and it just seemed to go one thing after another after another, with the closing of everything we were familiar with came more concerns and fear. Now closed are all beaches, parks, congregations, schools, movie theaters any business that is non essential is closed. No more hair appointments or nail appointments. Life as we knew it came to a halt, like a complete halt. The shop is still open, so Ricky works, it's scary. When he comes home I have the shower running he gets undressed at the door, clothes go in a laundry basket straight to the washer, then jumps in the shower. This is our routine daily now. I finally stopped working on Saturday, I was way too stressed thinking I would bring something home to the kids. At work we were no longer doing face to face appointments instead our clients were doing drop offs but guess who they saw to do that and to pick up their tax returns, yup me. I was trying to hold out until the end of tax season but Lincoln had another fever and I was done. Ever since the kids were out of school, Damian was watching them while Ricky and I worked. Way too much responsibility for a 12 year old thats for sure. So I am home now cooking and cleaning and teaching, ha ha, wish them and I luck. It's been raining the last couple days, they say that the next two weeks in California will be the worst. Our numbers are supposed to be ridiculous, so we are trying to take every precaution to ensure we will all be safe. We are spending much more time together trying to adapt to our new life. School will be closed for the rest of the school year. It's so cool to see the positive stuff that is going on around us too, like Mother Nature is taking over and I can't help but feel like this is much more of a cleansing than anything. The parks and waters are covered with wildlife, its so awesome to see peoples video of these animals taking back what was once theirs. The smog from everywhere is almost completely gone. The most we can do for now is pray for everyone around the world. Our county just gave us new orders, if we are to go out, it is only for essential things and we must wear some type of face masks. The kids are holding it together pretty well with their lives changed over night as well. Lincoln and Mason havent been outside our property for a month now. The other boys went out once to pick up their chromebooks, because they had to sign them out. They have been doing Yoga as part of their PE work, they wake up do their school work, do their chores and then hang out the rest of the day, there is only so much they can do inside so we have been more lenient with their xboxs, which I still hate. I have been baking more for them, they are enjoying that part as well. We are also in the middle of weeding the front and back yard, we are trying to start our garden, we don't know how much longer we will be have to stay put so we want to at least get something started in case this gets worse and they start closing stores. We have been able to get groceries but not as easy as it was before. There is a huge shortage of toilet paper, rice, lysol, handsanitizer, face masks and essentials are limited at the stores, eggs, milk, bread. We luckily got a new freezer before the craze really hit and were lucky enough to stock it, no problem. Ricky is thinking within the next week or so he will be done working. I know this will be in the history books one day, I just can't believe we are going through this. It still seems so unreal, like straight out of a book. Till we meet again, bye guys!

I made Rainbow spaghetti for the boys lunch. 

First day of Distance learning

Mason and Lincoln early one morning.

Picking up chromebooks from school

colored spaghetti close up

Yoga for PE, hopefully they learn to love this