Holy buckets in a sinking Coronavirus cruise ship today was tough!! To be honest it started last night when Owen woke up at 11 with a migraine. It was tough for both Adam and I to get him calmed down, relaxed and back to sleep. Then Quavo felt the need to wake me up at 4 so he could wander the yard and make sure everything was A Okay. By the time my alarm went off at 6:20 I had already decided I was going to take a rest day from the bike and hit snooze. Then I hit it again and again and contemplated chucking it across the room. But at 7:30 I decided it was probably time to hit the coffee and hit it hard. Adam headed up to the office and I texted a friend which then turned into a much needed sanity saving phone call.

Started to load all websites and videos to kindles for today’s eLearning and was stupidly happy because today looked to be an “easy” day…oh what a mistake I made thinking that!!!

E-learning started easy enough. But it went south fast as what I thought would be quick and easy assignments quickly became overwhelming for us all. Dawson did inform me that I would be a better teacher if I gave out more blessings…

Now it’s not that any one kid’s work is more difficult than the other but currently I am teaching 6th, 2nd, 1st and K. I feel like a triage teacher…running from kid to kid with the most urgent life altering learning moment, sorry kindergartener but your counting to 50 needs to wait for my help as I teach your brother how to add and subtract double digits and yes we carried the one! Sorry 1st grade I know you are doing art and need to draw a Leprechaun but your Kindergarten brother is writing a sentence and I need to make sure he uses his finger to space between words. We are making it but 7 days ago I would never have imagined being here. I give major kudos to my husband who recommended a lunch break and an hour off school work so Mommy could breathe. I took a moment to reflect on what I thought was an utter disaster and realized I have it so easy. I have all day to get through this work. I’m not balancing another job or working at the hospital. I am solely focused on my kids and I AM LUCKY. Believe me I’m still going to make fun of myself but I’m not going to let it overwhelm me again or at least not today.

It was pouring rain and this only added to the doom and gloom of the day. Plus the kids were stuck in the house… yippee!

I forgot to mention I spoke to Adam’s amazing Grandmother yesterday. She has been keeping up with the chronicles and suggested I add ballroom dancing to the bucket list. I wholeheartedly agreed as we both believe it is a lost art. Also decided to add teaching the boys how to set a formal table setting and how to eat with all the silverware. Also, I am starting to realize that these awesome bucket list items will probably be done next week over spring break as I currently have no extra bandwidth for anything other than e-learning.

Other notable events today, caught up on the Cincinnati Zoo Facebook live videos. The kids learned about a porcupine, was very appreciative when they told the kids that they shouldn’t pet a porcupine figured that was an important life lesson. Also did you know that porcupines eat tree seeds and poop them out in turn replanting the forest?Neither did I, who knew they were such environmentalists… Also, Quavo feels the porcupine is a shady character and stayed between him and kids barking to make sure it knew he meant business. Decided to turn on today’s video about an ocelot and stopped in my tracks when Corbin asked me what a frozen embryo was. Adam laughed and told them to ask their mother…jerk

Dawson called a buddy to wish him a happy 6th birthday on FaceTime.

I wasn’t sure what I was planning when I wrote the first chronicle day, but as I write them I find it therapeutic. Maybe it’s the social butterfly in me wanting to connect with people or it’s the history major wanting to record this extremely weird time in history whatever it is I plan to keep writing if I can make other people laugh and at least commiserate with me.

In summary the world felt gloomy today, I need it not to rain and I need to stay off the news but the kids are alright, Adam and I are alright, and the dog is still living his best life.