Good Lord Day 37???? What has been the most amazing is that we have not had any food from a restaurant during any of that time! My goal is always to eat most food at home but now I know how woefully we had fallen in that area! Eating out was always my back up plan but not now! Now I can round up a full meal in no time flat LOL So there is always a silver lining ......
After this quarantine is over personally I'm going to continue cooking most of our meals from home. Honestly at this time, I have no desire to eat out, if I can't watch my food being prepared then I'm going to feel like I'm eating germs! People are still getting to go food from restaurants and fast food places and I can't even imagine doing that right now. No I've not heard of anyone getting sick that way but it doesn't matter, it just turns my stomach. Plus this is huge money saver. Before COVID I'd check our little bank account and there would be withdrawal after withdrawal from different food places AND I prided myself on cooking at home alot LOL Now I can look at my little bank account and see just a few little withdrawals for bills and that's about it. It used to be so many little withdrawals every day now it looks like I've gone missing without my ATM card! I can see all the way back to March on one page!
So I don't know about you but I have all these friends who are now medical disease experts, political analysts, eschatology experts, prophets, and they've all gotten into different camps. Some think that our civil liberties are being taken away from us, others are wearing Haz-mat suits and vowing to do so for the next year... I pretty much hate everyone at this time & I feel like somehow I am about as middle of the road as I can possibly get at this time....
I don't know if COVID-19 came from eating a bat or from a lab....and if from a lab was it released purposely or a mistake? I have no earthly idea & I'm pretty sure no one I'm friends with does either although some of them think they do LOL I'm pretty sure our government and the heads of other governments knew it was very serious and that is why countries shut down. Living in Florida- I know Disney doesn't shut down for much! And while I happen to like Trump alot- I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have shut down the country like it's been shut down -in an election year- while the economy was going so good- if there was no a major threat to our lives. He nor the economy had nothing to gain by doing so.
So my conspiracy theory is that we dodged a bullet! Whatever was anticipated didn't happen whether the rate of transmission slowed, or our social distancing worked, or just the Grace of God (although for those directly affected I'm sure none of that is much of a comfort.)
Personally I'm glad to do my part. Over the years I've really learned to live in the moment. The whole year of 2012 was a time to live in the moment because the future was so unknown. From the beginning of the year waiting daily for "the call" telling us we had an appointment in Ukraine...then the one way tickets we bought having no idea of how long we'd be in Ukraine (we ended up being there 2.5 months) then the accident.... we had no idea of when we would be able to go home to Florida-it took us 4.5 months to get back to Florida and another 2 months to get Selah home for good. So during all that time, I learned to live in the moment. There were so many other people controlling my/our future that I had no choice but to live in the moment. Plus I had a bunch of little folks watching how we handled so many challenges during that year. We learned to have joy in the journey. So I chose to look at this time as a time to just live day to day and enjoy what I could of it. There's alot of things going on in my life that I can't control right now but I also can not make it my focus.
For me I've kept a schedule of sorts. I've done crazy amounts of projects but there are still things I can do. We continue playing outside with the kids. I've read more, I go walking most days so I get in my 10,000 steps which is a good thing because I'm eating MORE! Lord I eat so much. Not only do I cook alot, I have bought sweets...I figured we needed something.... There are things in my house that have never been in my house before LOL I'm still trying to eat healthy but I have to admit I've added some sugar to my diet. So far I've not gained any weight but I'm fearful of getting on the scales LOL
For example for lunch I cooked a ground chicken meatloaf with lots of green peppers and onions. I added flax seed to it and parsley too. I made mashed potatoes, corn and green beans. It sounds healthy right...but then I made Orange Fluff...it's as good as it sounds and a Southern staple for potlucks I believe I have just become diabetic! Before Covid-19 I never made things like that! I actually rarely made desserts but that has all changed now!
Jon has been home for about 3 weeks it has given me a taste of what retirement will be like.... the little kids have loved having us home and just being together. Sarah especially wants both of us playing with her all the time. She usually swings on her swing set for about 2 hours a day and Jon sits with her. He's gotten plenty of study time in.
It almost feels sinful to just be home-it's hard for me to miss appointments and get off our schedule but it might be easier after this is over LOL I have to admit I've been staying up late watching TV every night. Until Netflix came along I was not much of a TV watcher but now....
So go watch some late night TV and spend time with the folks you live with. they are probably pretty nice people LOL Hope all is well with each of you and your families! Take care of yourselves and each other.
After this quarantine is over personally I'm going to continue cooking most of our meals from home. Honestly at this time, I have no desire to eat out, if I can't watch my food being prepared then I'm going to feel like I'm eating germs! People are still getting to go food from restaurants and fast food places and I can't even imagine doing that right now. No I've not heard of anyone getting sick that way but it doesn't matter, it just turns my stomach. Plus this is huge money saver. Before COVID I'd check our little bank account and there would be withdrawal after withdrawal from different food places AND I prided myself on cooking at home alot LOL Now I can look at my little bank account and see just a few little withdrawals for bills and that's about it. It used to be so many little withdrawals every day now it looks like I've gone missing without my ATM card! I can see all the way back to March on one page!
So I don't know about you but I have all these friends who are now medical disease experts, political analysts, eschatology experts, prophets, and they've all gotten into different camps. Some think that our civil liberties are being taken away from us, others are wearing Haz-mat suits and vowing to do so for the next year... I pretty much hate everyone at this time & I feel like somehow I am about as middle of the road as I can possibly get at this time....
I don't know if COVID-19 came from eating a bat or from a lab....and if from a lab was it released purposely or a mistake? I have no earthly idea & I'm pretty sure no one I'm friends with does either although some of them think they do LOL I'm pretty sure our government and the heads of other governments knew it was very serious and that is why countries shut down. Living in Florida- I know Disney doesn't shut down for much! And while I happen to like Trump alot- I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have shut down the country like it's been shut down -in an election year- while the economy was going so good- if there was no a major threat to our lives. He nor the economy had nothing to gain by doing so.
So my conspiracy theory is that we dodged a bullet! Whatever was anticipated didn't happen whether the rate of transmission slowed, or our social distancing worked, or just the Grace of God (although for those directly affected I'm sure none of that is much of a comfort.)
Personally I'm glad to do my part. Over the years I've really learned to live in the moment. The whole year of 2012 was a time to live in the moment because the future was so unknown. From the beginning of the year waiting daily for "the call" telling us we had an appointment in Ukraine...then the one way tickets we bought having no idea of how long we'd be in Ukraine (we ended up being there 2.5 months) then the accident.... we had no idea of when we would be able to go home to Florida-it took us 4.5 months to get back to Florida and another 2 months to get Selah home for good. So during all that time, I learned to live in the moment. There were so many other people controlling my/our future that I had no choice but to live in the moment. Plus I had a bunch of little folks watching how we handled so many challenges during that year. We learned to have joy in the journey. So I chose to look at this time as a time to just live day to day and enjoy what I could of it. There's alot of things going on in my life that I can't control right now but I also can not make it my focus.
For me I've kept a schedule of sorts. I've done crazy amounts of projects but there are still things I can do. We continue playing outside with the kids. I've read more, I go walking most days so I get in my 10,000 steps which is a good thing because I'm eating MORE! Lord I eat so much. Not only do I cook alot, I have bought sweets...I figured we needed something.... There are things in my house that have never been in my house before LOL I'm still trying to eat healthy but I have to admit I've added some sugar to my diet. So far I've not gained any weight but I'm fearful of getting on the scales LOL
For example for lunch I cooked a ground chicken meatloaf with lots of green peppers and onions. I added flax seed to it and parsley too. I made mashed potatoes, corn and green beans. It sounds healthy right...but then I made Orange Fluff...it's as good as it sounds and a Southern staple for potlucks I believe I have just become diabetic! Before Covid-19 I never made things like that! I actually rarely made desserts but that has all changed now!
Jon has been home for about 3 weeks it has given me a taste of what retirement will be like.... the little kids have loved having us home and just being together. Sarah especially wants both of us playing with her all the time. She usually swings on her swing set for about 2 hours a day and Jon sits with her. He's gotten plenty of study time in.
It almost feels sinful to just be home-it's hard for me to miss appointments and get off our schedule but it might be easier after this is over LOL I have to admit I've been staying up late watching TV every night. Until Netflix came along I was not much of a TV watcher but now....
So go watch some late night TV and spend time with the folks you live with. they are probably pretty nice people LOL Hope all is well with each of you and your families! Take care of yourselves and each other.
