The Novel Caronavirus, Memorial Day Weekend Fun and The Last Day of School

We are still dealing with the novel caronavirus, but we are starting to slowly come out of "healthy at home" orders for Kentucky. This is mainly due to a leveling off of new cases. Many people are still working from home and lots of places are only allowed to be open if they operate under new guidelines. For instance, restaurants are allowed to be operate at 33% capacity and all tables must be at least six feet away from each other. Although many restaurants are open, we have opted to still get food delivered from restaurants or get take out. When we go to the doctor, we call from the parking lot and wait to be allowed in. We have our temperature taken and go right back to an exam room. We are expected to only get together in groups of ten or less. 

The pets seem to like that we are home so much. They get a lot of attention and lots of extra love.

Preston has continued his karate lessons via Zoom. He just tested for his orange belt last week! He is making great progress!

Preston and I did a cool chalk mosaic as part of his art class. We had so much fun and it turned out so great!

Evan has continued fishing this spring. He recently had some great success catching a huge carp and a big bass!

Despite not being able to do a lot of our normal activities, we still manage to have fun. Carl helped me assemble the sign for the fifth grade graduation at Chancey. Evan helped me set it up at school, but he had to be a little bit silly first. I am grateful for the laughs.

We are continuing work on our portion of the Chancey Garden. The peppers and tomatoes are doing great! We also added some of our own plants from the flower store and hope to have some strawberries too!

This past weekend was Memorial Day weekend. Under normal circumstances, we would have been at the pool enjoying a big party with food, drinks, music, and a giant slide. Currently, the pools are closed. We were lucky enough to get a large, inflatable pool for our yard and we spent a lot of time in it this weekend. We mostly stayed at home, but we did allow the boys to spend the night with Bonnie Mom and Grandpa, which they LOVED. We also watched horse races with Uncle Ron, had an alfresco dinner with the Amshoffs, and watched horse races with Bonnie Mom and Grandpa. Although it was very different than normal, we had a lot of fun!

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Today was the last day of school for Evan and Preston. We have continued to do at home schooling, with the support of our JCPS teachers. Although some days were tough, both boys did well. We are very proud of them. We have no idea what school will look like this fall, but I know that the boys will be successful with whatever the new school year offers.