Although I'm a stay at home mom and homeschool our four youngest, I really am noticing how often I used to run out for food, eating out or pick up, going to meet friends, church, therapy, rides for our son to work and other things, errands etc.... I've not gone out anywhere now for almost a week The kids have been home now for almost two weeks. Shad took "a leave form work" before his restaurant shut down and I'm so glad he did. My plan is to not go out until next Friday (a week from tomorrow) if possible. The more we stay in the better. The kids will not be going anywhere for the foreseeable future
Jon is still working but under strict guidelines and they get strict daily. If he is around anyone he wears gloves and a mask but he mostly works in his office. When he gets home, he undresses on the porch (good thing we live in the country!) The clothes go in the laundry and he washes up before putting on clean clothes. I then clean off any door handle he has touched. It's not perfect but it's the best we can do.
None of this is new for us. We've gone through similar things before while others didn't think twice about the flu season. Life is different when you have special needs kids with health issues.
While this COVID-19 is terrifying - the regular flu season is terrifying to us some years. This is definitely worse. Today I saw a video of the hospital in NYC where Steve was born and where I lost the twins. It is over run by COVID-19 patients. They are running out of respirators and over crowed. Many of their staff are now sick. This is not regular flu season.
Living in Florida we've gone through many weather related issues. I treated this situation similar to that and did all the basics. We had our generator serviced and the gas tank filled. We filled our vehicles up with gas. We stocked up on food. I did all the laundry (and continue to keep it up) There were some things I did differently- I didn't worry too much about water and am not really concerned about losing electricity during this quarantine time, I did worry that hurricane season is coming and should this last longer, I might not be able to get someone out here to do all those things for us!
We are not eating out at all. I know folks feel we should all support restaurants but I just can't. We support them quite nicely during the year but right now I want as few people involved in our food prep as possible. Yes I know even buying from the store, others have touched things just by putting them on shelves but just think how many more people end up touching food prepared in a restaurant!
So besides cooking, cleaning and doing projects.... we are outside more. The kids go out and swing every day for an hour. We also are sitting in the sun for at least 15 minutes a day -their swing set is under some trees. I figure the more outside time the better. Yesterday Shad did a photo shoot for Sarah. We figure we probably won't get Easter pictures this year because even if things get better, I'll probably still keep them home for a little bit longer to be safe. We would have done shots for Sam but..... I cut his hair last week in order not to take him to a hair salon.... Oh Lord.... at first it looked good, then I thought I'd just trim by his ear a little more.... I cut a swath of hair and then had to shave his head to match. He seems to love it, sometimes I come into his room and he's rubbing his bald head quite happily.....
Sarah is so pretty in these pictures
So everyone stay safe and stay home as much as possible!
None of this is new for us. We've gone through similar things before while others didn't think twice about the flu season. Life is different when you have special needs kids with health issues.
While this COVID-19 is terrifying - the regular flu season is terrifying to us some years. This is definitely worse. Today I saw a video of the hospital in NYC where Steve was born and where I lost the twins. It is over run by COVID-19 patients. They are running out of respirators and over crowed. Many of their staff are now sick. This is not regular flu season.
Living in Florida we've gone through many weather related issues. I treated this situation similar to that and did all the basics. We had our generator serviced and the gas tank filled. We filled our vehicles up with gas. We stocked up on food. I did all the laundry (and continue to keep it up) There were some things I did differently- I didn't worry too much about water and am not really concerned about losing electricity during this quarantine time, I did worry that hurricane season is coming and should this last longer, I might not be able to get someone out here to do all those things for us!
We are not eating out at all. I know folks feel we should all support restaurants but I just can't. We support them quite nicely during the year but right now I want as few people involved in our food prep as possible. Yes I know even buying from the store, others have touched things just by putting them on shelves but just think how many more people end up touching food prepared in a restaurant!
So besides cooking, cleaning and doing projects.... we are outside more. The kids go out and swing every day for an hour. We also are sitting in the sun for at least 15 minutes a day -their swing set is under some trees. I figure the more outside time the better. Yesterday Shad did a photo shoot for Sarah. We figure we probably won't get Easter pictures this year because even if things get better, I'll probably still keep them home for a little bit longer to be safe. We would have done shots for Sam but..... I cut his hair last week in order not to take him to a hair salon.... Oh Lord.... at first it looked good, then I thought I'd just trim by his ear a little more.... I cut a swath of hair and then had to shave his head to match. He seems to love it, sometimes I come into his room and he's rubbing his bald head quite happily.....
Sarah is so pretty in these pictures
So everyone stay safe and stay home as much as possible!
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