Still hanging in here, here in CT. We're on Day...I think it's 24? 25? Of Quarantine. It's all blending together. We're figuring out the home school thing. The teachers sent a Google Doc home each day with work and embedded links, which makes it easy. It takes us about 2-3 hours to complete. Sometimes I let the girls have WAY more than the 20 minutes of reading and/or math if they're into it. Thankfully, it's only 1st grade, so I'm not trying to teach something like x=y+13. But Common Core makes no sense to me. Is it so hard to memorize that 9+5 = 14? Do we need to make it 10+4 instead? Insanity.
We're doing as much online ordering of essentials as we can. Instacart was awesome when we got that delivery last weekend. No delivery times when I checked just now (I should have done it earlier today but got distracted) but I'm hoping things are open when I check tomorrow. I'm severely asthmatic and diabetic, so I'm very unwilling to leave the house to shop right now. We did buy bandanas to make makeshift masks if we do have to go out. Small measure of comfort. We've had takeout only once in the last 3 weeks and it was both glorious and terrifying.
Our town is at 34 cases, and a population of 30,000ish. I think one or two people from the town have died from it, not sure of the numbers off hand as I try not to obsessively check. My cousin (younger, in his 20s) thinks he has/had it. All the symptoms but didn't meet the requirements for testing, as far as I know. He's feeling a lot better now - he felt ill at the very beginning of all of this, when NYC first started to skyrocket in cases.
The worst part (aside from the kids going stir crazy and constant worries about reliable grocery delivery) is my husband's grandma. She's 102 and took a turn for the worse, not eating or drinking for days twice now in 2 weeks. My inlaws saw her today and she's definitely dying - staring without recognizing anyone/anything, super frail and skeletal, etc. Her round-the-clock aides are prepared for the inevitable BUT when it happens, it really will suck because we won't be able to say goodbye. We won't be able to have the funeral she wanted/deserves. Even IF funeral homes were allowing wakes with all the family members, there is zero chance we could risk going to NYC right now. Not only am I asthmatic, but one of our girls is too.
Other than that, we're doing our best to stay as sane as possible. There's been a lot more acting out from the kids lately. It's hard but I also can't blame them. We're all a little stir crazy, even when the weather has been sunny enough to go out into the backyard. (SO much rain in CT lately!)
Please, stay safe, my friends!
