Adventures in La La Land

You know what I have noticed in the past few weeks? GREY HAIRS! Apparently it's true that stress turns your hair grey? Because I'm sure it has nothing to do with my advancing age! 😜 1. This week in Michigan, we got the official order we've been expecting: STAY HOME. All "non-essential" businesses closed, restaurants are take-out only, even places like banks and pharmacies are closing their lobbies and asking customers to use the drive through. The label "essential business" is pretty broad, and most of my friends' husbands still have their jobs. But apparently construction is not considered essential, so Justin's out of work for 3 weeks. 🤦 Fortunately, we were able to sign up for unemployment Friday night before the website got totally slammed. And if Trump's stimulus package comes through as promised, we actually stand to make more per week than Justin makes working 40 hours! Yes, I realize something is wrong with that picture. Where is ...

Congratulations, y'all! We made it through our first week of social distancing! I'm trying not to think about how many more we have to go . . . 1. Our week at home actually went really well. I've recently started tracking my moods with an app called Daylio, and this past week looked good! I mean, there was definitely one evening that I said, "I will refill your drink one more time and then I am done for the rest of the night. Daddy's in charge now." Haha. But overall, we're doing well - mostly because I've been very lax about schoolwork and screen time limits. If ever there was a time for relaxing the screen time rules, this is it. Although I've also been intentional about making sure the kids move and get outside at least once a day. This coming week we're supposed to have temperatures in the 40s and 50s instead of last week's 30s. I'm hopeful that will go a long way toward getting us all outside. 2. Now I'm going to tell you a...