The Virus Post

I haven't been blogging about this, partly because things have been busy, and partly because... I'm tired of hearing and thinking about it.  But this blog is also a record of our family life, and it's made some dramatic (mostly nice) changes for us.

Everyone is home!  There are ten of us home pretty much all the time!  I'm loving having everyone around: isolation with the 9 people you are closest to is not so bad for me!

A lot of our life is going on as usual: Klenda is home, but she's painting a lot of the time, Zorg and Leena are doing their college work online.Choclo, Oob, and Leena are still getting home schooled.  Mxyl is doing freelance work from home.

And some things are different: the Emperor is home!  He's working on all sorts of small projects.

My mom is doing great, and my dad is doing much better, and the weather has been beautiful.

We're using the extra time to do fun family stuff and also working on a fair number of projects: garden rejuvenation, back basement sorting, and so forth.

On the down side, we are keeping ourselves pretty strictly quarantined.  Most of us would probably weather an infection pretty easily, but my dad is about as high risk as you can get: 82, recovering from pneumonia, Parkinson's, bone marrow cancer (with a suppressed immune system), the residual problems of having had prostate cancer, and now a touch of congestive heart failure.

Trying to make sure that he isn't exposed has been somewhat stressful.  I'm actually less worried since they've shut everything down, but we are only having a minimal number of us out to do essential shopping, and we are all maniacs with hand sanitizer when we are out.

But we've been going on lots of walks and spending lots of time outside, so it doesn't feel too constraining so far.