When you know somebody is having a hard time in their marriage. Pull them closer. Ask to take the kids for a weekend. Bring them dinner. Reach out to them. Ask them how they are doing. Don't insist on visiting or having them visit you. Know that their world feels like it is falling apart and it is taking every bit of energy to put on a good face for the kids and to work and run a household. And it is has to be done while they continue to reside with somebody who they are struggling to have the most basic of conversation with.
The governor came out on Wednesday and ordered a lock down. It seems like a good idea and will not changed our lives all that much. We did decided that we would only go to the grocery store once a week we went last Friday. We will go tomorrow which means it will be nine days. Kids haven't been in a store in weeks. Lots of time in the garden and working on yard projects. It has been good and bad. More family time and less running around. But lack of structure over the past two weeks has been tough. Tomorrow would be the day the kids start back to school. It is likely they won't be going back at all this year. Victoria will be the most effected. No eighth grade graduation likely The school could decide to bring back just eighth and 12th graders. Either way they are all out until 4/20. "distance learning" will start for the kids on 4/13. Which is another reason I think they will end the schoo...
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