Quarantine

We did a forced kind of quarantine in March. It was more of a shelter in place order. Restaurants, schools, gyms, and movie theaters were all closed. We didn't have much of a choice. The grocery stores and gas stations were always open and we could still go. But, once you are considered "exposed" or test positive, you aren't supposed to go anywhere. Once Russell got his positive results at 9:00 Monday morning, we were stuck with the supplies in our house. Supplies ran low for SO long as people panic shopped and stockpiled so I have tried not to let our stock get too low. Luckily, I had gone to Sam's Club the previous week and picked up a few things including lunchmeat, Diet Coke and milk. This is where we see if we have learned anything about being prepared! And, where Heavenly Father sends angels in the form of neighbors who offer to help any way they can.

I told one friend we could really use some mandarin oranges and some green grapes. Of course, we received 2 fulls bags of fruit with a loaf of Great Harvest pumpkin chocolate chip bread. It was so touching to be the recipient of such thoughtfulness.

Mason is out of school for 2 weeks. So far he has baked Homemade Oreos and become familiar with a sewing machine for his College and Career class. He has spent lots of time on the trampoline, had a zoom piano lesson, made a few lipsync videos to share with friends and practiced baseball everyday with Russell.

I decided it was time to put out some fall decorations. These are my newest additions this year.

My newest fall decorations

Another kind neighbor offered to go to the store for us.

Our grocery list

Someone was kind enough to get us each exactly what we wanted from Fiiz. I go the gas station about twice a week for a fountain drink. It was hard to not have that option.