Sunday, March 15th seemed to be the turning point in the seriousness of Covid-19. I mean, the day before we had been at a party with a bunch of doctors and everyone seemed to be pretty OK with it. Then, one day later, we all felt like maybe that had been a huge mistake and we needed to STAY HOME.
The weather was beautiful, so we ate dinner out by the pool that night.
Monday, March 16th.
If I was going to be trapped at home and living under lock down, it felt like a decent time to get back into a fitness routine. I had not had permission to work out (more than walking) since my mastectomy in January 2019, so it had been a loooooooong time since I got my heart rate up.
I just picked a random beginner cardio workout on YouTube.
I actually got a sweat going.
And it was awesome.
My festive St. Patrick's Day nails.
Elliott's monthly picture on the 16th. 8 years 2 months. I didn't notice the green sunbeam on his head until days later.
Tuesday, March 17th
The least festive St. Patrick's Day ever. Michael was still going to work in his office, so the kids and I were home alone.
The screen of our oven has been broken for several years, but in some sort of miracle, it started working that day. It lasted for two days and now it's off again. The oven and the buttons work, there's just nothing on the display.
I had washed all of the dishes that morning, but then I made pancakes and this was the sink after.
We ordered in dinner that night from Chompies. I wanted a real St. Patrick's day meal, but I was the only one. Elliott had pancakes, Michael got a breakfast skillet, and Spencer had a burger.
Wednesday March 18th
Michael was off from work and knew he was about a day away from working at home. We decided we'd make the guest room his new office.
I hadn't taken pictures of the guest room since we put new bookshelves in there, so I took some "before" pictures.
Michael's new workspace. It was pretty convenient that we had just moved a new desk into Spencer's room. Eventually I will take this desk to work, but for now, this is the set-up.
This is where speech therapy is happening. Don't worry. I've cleaned up the desk.
Here's Spencer's new desk that I bought at an estate sale.
And here's Elliott's. Also recently cleaned.
I had bought these cool mosaic light bulbs a few weeks before, but hadn't taken a picture of them yet.
Thursday March 19th
My Facebook memories told me that it had been exactly two years since the kids and I had gone to the pedestrian bridge over the 101 freeway over spring break.
I decided we'd go again. I mean, what else were we going to do?
This time it was cloudy and cold.
Friday, March 20th.
Michael's first work-at-home day
Spencer had appointments with his ENT and his dermatologist that day. They were fairly important appointments, and his doctors still wanted to see him, so we went. We checked in through the phone, waited in the car, and then went straight into a sterilized room.
This was at the dermatologist. It's sad that they had to put these signs up.
That night we had the first zoom happy hour with my family. Get used to lots of zoom screenshots on the blog, because that's pretty much socializing in 2020
I took down St. Patrick's Day and put up Easter on Saturday, March 21st.
Bye bye green!
Hello bunnies!
Up next: St. Patrick's Day decor. And it will post when it's still March! And we're almost caught up to the timeline!
