In the month we’ve been on a stay-at-home order, I’ve realized a couple things.
First of all, everyone goes through a freak-out before settling into a new reality. I have seen it happen in many of my online friends and, more to the point, I’ve been painfully aware of it in myself. I tried to be pretty proactive in my own mental health (because I have 5 people depending on me to have *my* you-know-what together), and I think, at last, I’ve more or less found my equilibrium.
Second: This situation is, without a doubt, the most intense parenting I have ever done. Every one of my kids is reacting in different ways, all of them requiring intense creativity and problem-solving and prayer.
Finally: The big joke these days is about introverts vs. extroverts. Clearly, the extroverts are the real sufferers here, the cultural narrative goes. I would argue otherwise. There are some introverts who actually live alone, and who are perfectly content because they’re in their element. But this introvert, the one writing this post, depends upon time alone to recharge AND ISN’T GETTING IT AT ALL. See point two above. So don’t write off the introverts as not suffering!
All that being said, however, we have been trying to make good use of the time as family. And therefore I have a lot of photos to share. So here you go: a stay-at-home order in our family looks like this:










What does your stay-at-home look like?
How do they work the food lunch pick ups ? I haven’t gone to get it because I’m afraid to stand in a line and be near a crowd. Our district just says come at 10am, so there is only 1 time.
Well, I can’t speak for elsewhere, but here the bus stops in the cul de sac and the families come out and stand in different areas of the cul de sac until it’s our turn to come forward. The bus personnel calls out “what do you want, this or this?” and packs up the bag and hands it to you. Where I live the curve is totally flat, so we can relax a little more than one might be able to in, say, New York or Detroit.