It’s April 15th and it has been over a month since KK’s school closed and will be one month on Friday that we’ve officially been living under the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order (started on 3/17). It’s also Tax Day and the deadline has been extended. Our taxes were prepared in February so the packets have been sitting around collecting dust while we put off mailing them in.

So far, the kids and Jes have adjusted to a new routine. They have been doing pretty well without me. Outside of their regular Zoom meetings for school, they have been enjoying life without all the shuttling around to various classes and activities. They have rekindled their love for playdough and sand and our patio is getting much more attention lately.

Sadly, their idea of a good time nowadays is taking a ride in the car to pick up boba drinks and drinking them in the car on the way home. They haven’t been out in public aside from bike rides and runs around the neighborhood last past month. I’d say they haven’t left Alameda for over a month!

It was also Easter this past Sunday and instead of having our usual neighborhood egg hunt, the kids and I went outside and drew eggs all over the sidewalks for others to fine later as they walked by. We didn’t dye eggs due to the shortage at our stores. We did, however, manage to do egg hunts in the house with the plastic eggs that we’ve accumulated over the past couple years.

Luckily, my feet are no longer hurting and I was back to running just in time for this pandemic. Now that the gym is closed, all I can do is run or do some HIIT videos at home. It’s been fun running with Brother on the phone too.

At work just last week (4/07), everyone in my department was issued laptops and given permission to temporarily work from home. I had my first day of working from home on 4/8, had 4/9 off as usual, and then worked from home on 4/10. That meant I had been home away from the hospital and office for 5 straight days. That was the longest stretch I’ve had since this all started. By Sunday, I was a little stir crazy and not used to being home all the time.

Going back to the office on Monday was pretty eerie. By then, everyone had migrated to their homes (even the ones that initially said they wanted to stay in the office). I was literally the only one from my department in our 2nd floor treatment area. I wasn’t needed in the hospital so I hid in my office and worked. At lunch, I got antsy so I took a walk. It gets pretty lonely when it’s so quiet in a normally bustling part of my life.

At this point, the government has recommended universal masking so I took my handmade cloth mask that was donated to our department and wore it outside to pick up lunch and also to shop at Trader Joe’s after work. I’ve always hated wearing masks for work and now I have to do in my life outside of work.

We had planned for a surge by now but so far we have “flattened the curve” so much that we anticipate the surge will be closer to end of April/beginning of May. Schools are officially closed for the rest of the 2019/2020 school year and I have no idea whether or not kids will be able to go to Summer Camps by June.

P.S. We finally got some toilet paper from Costco. Jes was lucky enough to see it in stock online and ordered a pack.