Hello world! How is everybody doing? We flipped the script over here in Larive Land today - which I am just going to go ahead and call that the theme of this social distancing endeavor - flipping the script. Everything end over end and off schedule. Guess how much the control-freak over here likes that? Nodda...zero...zilch. I make plans...God laughs.
So late last night we had a little health scare with a close connection of mine- all is good, but it really drove home how differently the healthcare system and society in general is functioning right now. Keep yourself well, my friends. Eat well, keep moving, stay home, stay hydrated, stay positive...you are your best advocate. Tuck in and take care of yourself and your family unit. Reach out electronically to your extended circle - use these crazy screens for good right now to keep your social connections and your mental health. So many people are feeling the weight of this - self care is important now. Tonight, I popped both kids in front of their tablets, had them use their new-found face time skills, and had them call a relative they can't see right now to read them books. And then I took some new minty shower gel I had Amazon deliver and took a long, hot shower. Now I am minty clean and ready to handle tomorrow, right??
So back to our well-intentioned plans...
Larive School? Did not happen today. Today was the day I realized how many more groceries we are going through by all of us being home all day, every day. So I sat down to set up a curbside pick up order at Meijer....and nope. The system is so backed up they aren't taking more orders right now. So I trot my butt over to Meijer with a very flexible meal plan/list in hand. I took my own bags and my own Clorox wipes - which was fortuitous since they were out of cart wipes. My plan was to buy whatever proteins they had in stock and build a two week plan out of that so I didn't have to go back anytime soon. I got my meat, I even got a pack of toilet paper...but there were zero hot dog buns. Who is hoarding hot dog buns??? They were also wiped out of saltine and oyster crackers and 95% of boxed pasta. Apparently we have a lot of local pasta and soup eaters here in town stockpiling.
After I made it home from Meijer without touching anything or anyone (brief sidebar - there were WAY too many elderly people clearly out just walking around - it took all my restraint to not just take their one item and tell them to go home) I came home and had to handle work for my actual job that I am still doing from home. I work in the medical field, managing a primary care office, and there is a lot of changing information to keep up with and watch. My job actually feels like a giant research paper right now, constantly scanning for new information, checking sources, creating flow charts for how things could go if this one thing plays out or the other. This kept me occupied well into the evening.
So Larive School...had a vacation day. On Day 3 already...ugh. Not even a vacation day - but a straight-up-mindless-tv-tablet-so-Mom-can-get-her-shit-done day. We didn't go outside, we didn't do chores, we didn't learn any life skills...they did watch the Cincinnati Zoo video of the day and draw porcupine pictures with their aunt who is living with us for the duration of this craziness. And while we had dinner, I made them do handwriting and a half-hearted attempt at spelling. That is the extent of their brain activity for the day. Less than an hour. And ya know what? Not going to beat myself up over it. Mama can NOT do all the things. And that is ok. We will try again tomorrow....over our bun-less hot dog lunch.
Anybody else come across a random shortage of weird things while they are out?
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