4/17/2020

COVID Funny Summary

Let me first say... I know that this is new and we are just learning about it. I also know that everyone HS trying their best. I totally appreciate that!!  But, some of these hit home. Some of the info we’ve been given has been a little... 
“Confusing”.



Just so we’re clear:

Here are the official COVID-19 guidelines:

1. Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.

2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save you, it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.

3. Stores are closed, except those that are open.

4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.

5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won't help, but they can still help.

7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it's important to GO OUT.

8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.

9. The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.

10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…

11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my..

12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand and it's better not to go out, well, but no…

13. It's better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don't go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant (but not too old).

14. You can't go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring food and medication.

15. If you are sick, you can't go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.

16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn't wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too?

17. Every disturbing article or disturbing interview starts with "I don't want to trigger panic, but…"

18. You can't see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.

19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don't live under the same roof.

20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.

21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn't say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.

22. The virus stays in the air - well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.

23. We count the number of deaths but we don't know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were "almost dead" to find out if that's what they will die of…

24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications).

25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates… but we must no longer be locked up for that?

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4/15/2020

Easter 2020

You’d think we’d be sick of being stuck at home- but not yet.
Easter was pretty nice- 

We dyed 18 eggs on Thursday... just normal egg dye kits this year. 

On Good Friday we watched church online.

On Saturday, Jason and I hid 6 plastic eggs for each kid around the yard. It was awesome!!  Each egg had a penny, a quarter, 4 quarters, a dollar, twenty-five cents or a “prize”.  

The boys prize was a hint to where they’d find their new Darth Maul Light Sabers. The girls each got a $20 Target Online gift card. 

The Hunt took about an hour and we hit the kids eggs according to their age. It was fun. One of  Jenni’s eggs was in place of a lightbulb. One of Jack’s was high in a tree. One of Jaylee’s was in a random cinderblock under a tree. Jimmy’s hardest was on top of the shed. Jenni has another in the middle of the trampoline... which was upside down because of tornado warnings the day before. Everyone had fun!!















I prepared the potato salad and pineapple sunshine cake on Saturday. Saturday night everyone went to bed without even remembering that it was Easter-eve!!!  Apparently Jennibelle woke at 1am because she remembered and woke Jaylee to remind her, LOL.

Sunday morning we slept in until 0730!!!  The Easter Bunny had come and hid everyone’s basket, but forgot to hide Daddy’s! Weird. It’s probably because Jason also had to wake me at 12:45 am to remind me it was Easter. I was barely awake!! 

After streaming online church, Jaylee then made us an Easter breakfast casserole-
Scrambled eggs, cheese, bacon and tater tots. 


The whole family helped me make the deviled eggs then- everyone peeled their own eggs. But, only after the girls hid them for the boys. 







Then, it was time for Jimmy to learn how to ride a bike! I was shocked. This kid has had ZERO interest in bikes for almost 7 years. But he figured it out in one day:)



And then...
The dining proudly presents...

Our Dinner!!





I had asked everyone to dress up for dinner nicely, so we snapped a family photo before we sat to eat. Dinner was ok.  The ham thawed all day yesterday and cooked for 90 minutes. It smelled delicious, the first 3 slices were beautiful, and then the middle was still frozen!!  So... some of our fancy dinner ended up microwaved. The potato salad was very good. The Kraft MacNCheese was obviously a hit. The deviled eggs were awful. I was going to throw them in the garbage right after making them but Jack loved them (?) And insisted I keep them. He ate 2. For dessert we ate a pineapple sunshine cake with coconut in it- yummy! 

Nan and Poppop drive by a few days ago to drop us off an Easter treat. Poor Jennibelle got SO excited because she thought they were dropping off Easter dinner!!  (Wouldn’t that have been AMAZING?!?) They we’re bringing me my favorite Chocolate covered pretzels and jelly beans:) 





We ended the night with a 2 hour Kahoot! Game with the Stringhams in Seattle via Zoom, so we could see them all!!  
At one point we all picked a version of Maria to be our screen name!