Quarantine Journals - Drive

This morning Richard took the kids for an early bike ride around town. Then Penny had a class zoom, and I let the kids play with their iPads while I did some laundry. Around lunchtime Deanna messaged that she was about to take Sammy the salamander out, so I set up the iPad while the kids were eating and they got to watch Sammy take a bath and walk around on the table. They loved it!  

When we got off the phone, she started planning with Richard because she wants to have rabbits. So she was trying to get Richard on board with making a cage, planning on where to put it, I'm planning on what they would feed them. She was wanting to breed him so that she can have baby rabbits and have Richard look up what baby rabbits look like on Google. When she had finished talking to him about it, she went into the living room and quickly started yelling "there's a baby fish! There's a baby fish!" Richard didn't believe her, as she got very feisty about proving it to him. But not too much later, she yelled at again and we both came in and saw a baby fish.  sure enough, our tetras had a baby. In about an hour later she yelled "oh my god there's two baby fish!" And Yep there sure are.  Honestly, I'm flabbergasted because I've never had fish breed before. Not even when we hoped they would. And now there's two maybe three baby fish swimming around in the aquarium. It just kind of blows my mind, especially since these fish are supposed to be hard to breed! She's SO EXCITED about it.

I got a notification on my phone that comment had been posted to Penny's. school seesaw account, and when I went to go look at it I noticed that she was commenting on her own stuff.

After lunch, our Instacart shopper, carmen, went to Costco to get our groceries for us. She's a shopper that I've been using routinely instead of going through Instacart anymore. We just contact each other privately, and she's super sweet and does such a great job finding everything for us. I don't know if I told you before, but when she dropped off her groceries last time she dropped off one of her own cans of Lysol so we could have it. Anyway, she went to Costco to get her groceries, and when I told her that I was looking for toilet paper for my neighbor, she made a stop at the Costco closest to our house to get some immediately, and then came to the Costco closer to us to see if she can get another thing. She ended up with two large packages of toilet paper, and I took them over to Julie's house for her and her parents. Her mom is in chemo and has life-threatening cancer. Penny really wanted to help me take the toilet paper over, so we stuck it in the wagon and walked it over together.

When Oliver realized that we had left the house without him, he went hysterical. When I got back home he kept crying to get in the car.  I explained to him multiple times that if we went for a drive, we wouldn't be able to get out of the car. It would just be to drive and then come home.  He said that was okay, so we went for our first pandemic drive. Drove up to Little Elm and back, looked at the scenery, ate snacks in the car, played the ABC game. I knew a tremendous meltdown was coming when he realized we couldn't actually go anywhere, but we made it through with some snack size cookies. 😅. He got super excited about seeing birds and trees and parks and bridges and lakes and was squealing in the backseat when he wasn't eating or unhappy. But he got bored of driving around after about an hour, and even asked to come home. He was happy to get out of the car when we pulled up in March drive back in the house. I'm so grateful that we didn't have a giant meltdown waiting for us on the other side of that car ride.

Judges in some counties are ordering the counties to open back up for business as per the presidents executive order. My brain pretty much feels like it's going to explode. Last night, the president suggested that perhaps ingesting disinfectant or somehow exposing people to UV light from within their body would help kill the virus. That's right, the president is suggesting that we in jacked Lysol and/or bodies. So that's how well things are going right now.

We had a telehealth appointment for Penny just to verify that a blemish on her cheek that hasn't gone away wasn't anything concerning, and the doctor encouraged me to go ahead and schedule Penny's well check for June or July. But I told the doctor, I'm not convinced that things are gonna be back to normal by June or July. Honestly I'm not convinced it's gonna be back to normal before school starts, and I'm not convinced that it's a good idea that anybody goes anywhere until like a year from now. So that's a fun way to feel when all of the Republicans and billionaires are pushing the country to reopen because they're tired of losing money.