It's the End of the World As We Know it

This week started out normal enough.  Carrigan was in a musical at school "The Panda and The Moon".  She played a peacock.  Elsie had a big week too, she rocked her first ever piggy tails.

By Thursday, the world came to a screeching halt.  Anyone reading this right now knows exactly what I am talking about, but for future me, this week marked the the beginning to the Coronavirus outbreak in the Oregon.  By Thursday every event and activity you can imagine began to be canceled, church was canceled, sports were canceled, and school was canceled.  The kids went to school Friday and I went to a million grocery stores and we prepared for our new life.

Saturday was the first day of "social distancing" as we call it.  Thankfully we had a surprise distraction, snow!  The girls and I went out front, built a snowman, and tried to sled down the neighbor's driveway.  It was the first time that Elsie actually liked the snow, mostly she liked eating it.  Jeremy and Merrick met some friends at the middle school to sled and then Merrick spent the day hanging out with them.  We mostly stayed to ourselves with the exception of some family and a few close friends.

The problem is that by Saturday night I no longer felt comfortable with our interaction level of the day.  Jeremy and I had a long talk about it and decided that "social distancing" would no longer be enough for our family and that we are going to start practicing "social isolation".  Tomorrow Jeremy will start working from home and the kids and I will do our best to keep ourselves occupied with limited to no social interactions.  I really hope this blows over quickly, but in the meantime I am kind of looking forward to having this time to grow closer together as a family in a way we never have before.  It will be interesting for sure.