COVID-19

This has been the most interesting/weird/crazy month of my life. A month or so ago China had a new virus going around. It was overflowing the hospital, and so many people were dying because there was not enough staff or ventilators to keep those who were sick alive. It was sad to watch on the news. Everyone, even those who were not sick, had started to wear masks or shirts or sponges or anything they could find over their mouths hoping not to get sick.

Fast forward a month or two, and that virus has now spread all the way over to the United States. On Friday March 13th I started to hear about it coming to the united states and that things were starting to get serious over here. The next week was Camille's Spring Break, so I felt comfortable in just keeping Camille at home for an extra day. We enjoyed spring break at home and have done some fun things. I am writing this on April 5th. It has been 23 days since we have really left our home. Kevin has been grocery shopping a couple of times. I have been to the post office 3 times. And that is it. Each day the school provides a lunch, so we drive over and pick up three lunches for kids. That is all we do.

We don't even go to church. All church meetings have been cancelled globally. Kevin performs the sacrament for us so we can still participate in renewing our covenants. We take turns
I feel grateful that we live in a small town. I feel grateful that we had bought toilet paper before all of this happened because apparently people are hoarding toilet paper. I feel grateful that the prophet has asked us to have a food storage, and although we don't have a year food storage, we do have enough to keep up fed and not having to rush to the stores to buy things when EVERYONE is rushing and buying everything. It is crazy. I have never seen so many empty shelves.

I feel grateful that even though the world is crazy, and life is crazy, that I can find peace and joy through Jesus Christ. I have been feeling some major anxiety (in fact I tried to write this post several weeks ago, and couldn't breath well because I was having a panic attack). But every time I pray, or read my scriptures I feel peace. I mostly just need to stay off social media and stay focused on my scriptures.

My kids are young enough, they don't really know what is going on. But school has been cancelled until May. So we have been doing and will continue to do home school. We will continue to play, and read book, do art projects and sing songs. Here are some of the fun things we have done during this time. I will update this post or maybe write another one, I am not sure. But here is a little dump of the past 23 days at home.