Quarantine 2020

TRAFFIC is gone,
GAS is affordable,
BILLS extended.
KIDS are at home with their FAMILIES.
Most PARENTS are home taking care of their CHILDREN.
FAST FOOD replaced by HOME COOKED MEALS.
Hectic SCHEDULES replaced by PUTTING FAMILY 1ST
The AIR is CLEANER.
The WORLD is quieter.
PEOPLE are conscious about HYGIENE and HEALTH.
MONEY doesn't seem to make the WORLD GO ROUND anymore.
ESSENTIAL WORKERS are finally being praised instead of athletes and reality
And WE HAVE TIME -
STOP & SMELL THE ROSES 🌹
..The positive side above all!!

Easter in Quarantine

Easter week was interesting to say the least.  Not a single Easter Bunny picture this year.  The girls didn’t miss it, but I did.  We all missed Palm Sunday processionals and Stations of the Cross at the beach on Good Friday.  For Maundy Thursday the girls prepared presentations about the last supper and we ate dinner like Jesus and the disciples did.  It was a great new tradition to start.   On Good Friday we watch the movie Son of God.  It was hard for the girls to see.  They have heard the crucifixion story many times but a visual of it was a little much.  They both have a new appreciation for Jesus’ sacrifice after watching the movie as a family.  Saturday night we did a glow in the dark Easter Egg hunt in our back yard.  It was the only egg hunt we were able to do all year because all the public hunts we normally do were cancelled due to Covid-19.  Easter morning the bunny left the girls a scavenger hunt with clues leading them to their Easter baskets.  It was fun to have a little more challenge now that they are older.  The girls received cookie decorating kits and spent the afternoon decorating beautiful cookies.  Then they helped make our Easter dinner.  We had so much food, even though it was just the 4 of us.  We ended the day watching The Dog Who Saved Easter.

Corona Quarantine - What the world is like

Just so I never forget... April 3rdd, 2020

-Gas prices in Clearwater, FL are $1.79
-School cancelled - yes, cancelled through May 1st 
-Self-distancing measures on the rise.
-Tape on the floors at grocery stores and other essentials locations to help distance the public (6ft) from each other.
-Limited number of people inside essentials stores, therefore lines outside the store doors.
-Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
-Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
- National Sports cancelled.
-Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment in general  - cancelled.
-Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
-No funerals
-No masses, churches are closed.
-No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more and now 10 or more.
-Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
-Children's outdoor play parks are closed.
-Shortage of medical masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
-Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
-Panic buying and we now have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towels, no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer on the shelves. 
-Shelves are bare in general 
-Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
-Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
-Fines are established for breaking the rules.
-Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
-Press conferences daily from the President and Governors. And we actually watch.
-Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
-Government mandates to stay home.
-Barely anyone on the roads.
-People wearing masks and gloves outside.
-Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
-Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.

Why you ask... I post this?

One day it will show up in my memories. It will be a reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we love for granted.

We have so much!
Be thankful. Be grateful.
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone.

First Day of Corona School

Today was our first day of distance learning.  The girls have lessons from school and are all set up with Google Classroom for all subjects including Greek, PE, Music, Art and Gifted.  They have scheduled times for Zoom meetings and WebEx conferences.  It’s a little crazy, but kind of cool.  Its a big transition for all of us.  The girls need to have patience with Chris and I. We need to have patience with them.  I know their teachers have worked hard to get this all together and they have been thrown into this too.  But we survived Day 1.  Which is 16 days since we last had a day of school.  And today, the Governor announced the are extending the school shut down until May 1st.  Pray for us all!

Corona-cation Day 5

5 days into corona-cation.  Our stay-cation thanks to coronavirus.  Lots of talk about shelter in place orders and stay at home lock downs.  Right now its just spring break for the girls so mentally they aren’t feeling the stress like kids in other parts of the country and world are.  We’ve been enjoying board games every night, spending the days at the pool and just relaxing.  Makena and I love watching Josh Gad (voice of Olaf) read children’s stories to us each night on Twitter.  Plans are in place for virtual learning once we get back from our official spring break.  Then I think this will all start to set in for them.  For now I am just panicking on the inside so they don’t notice.

Our babies aren’t babies anymore!

It’s been 6 years since we’ve updated our Baby Webb Blog.  Due to the Covid-19 quarantine recommendations, I thought it would be a good idea to let the girls start recording their thoughts on what’s going on in the world around them.

So a quick update.

Melia is 11 and in 5th grade.  She is a level 4 gymnast and still loves to read.

Makena is 9 and in 3rd grade. Makena competes in judo, loves art, singing and dancing.

Our spring break vacation plans were cancelled due to coronavirus travel restrictions. We had a cruise booked out of San Juan Puerto Rico and received an email cancelling our cruise on our way to the airport Friday after school.  We decided to “staycation” in Orlando at Orange Lake Resort.

Spring Break was originally extended until March 27th.  It has now been extended until April 15th.  We are hoping to get more information on virtual learning options.  As of now all state wide testing will be cancelled.  I don’t think we will be going back to school physically this year at all.