I told Marc the new word for 2020 will be “social distancing”, thank you COVID-19. Life feels a little like everything has hit the fan in the last few days. But there is good news and bad news. I’ll share the bad news firsts because I always like to end on a high note.

BAD NEWS: Last week the church canceled all meetings of any kind and President Trump advised not being in groups larger than 50. Governor Ducey canceled all schools in Arizona till March 31st. By the end of nap time yesterday the stock market dropped three thousand points and Trump’s recommendation dropped to no more than ten.  Grocery stores everywhere are sold out of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bleach, soap and most shelf stable foods. There is a tangible tension and I have several quality anxiety spikes thought out the day.

GOOD NEWS: Marc passed his dental boards on Friday!!! The COVID-19 crazy train really  started out of the station, at least here in town, on Thursday afternoon, and we were a little nervous that Marc’s two other board patients would be no shows. You could say we prayed real hard Thursday night. Miraculously, everyone showed up as planned and Marc killed it with his magic dentist skills. I came out with a numb face and a crooked smile so proud of this guy!

No church means no primary, and I lead the primary music at church. All the kids have been working so had to learn all four verses of Joseph Smith’s First Prayer and I didn’t want to loose the ground we have made, so I had the brilliant idea to make a video singing time to send out to all my primary kiddos.  It went over so well we are going o keep it up.

Before things had gotten so crazy we had a Corona Virus party planned. 😂 Shelly is so funny. We are Chinese food, Shelly recreated the Corona beer label for root beer “Corona Virus” soda, and we played pandemic.

Marc just started spring break and A T Still was just bumped it to three weeks! So party at our house! We have had more story time, family walks, one on one with the kids, and time seems to have slowed down a little. We will never again just have three weeks all together with our babies, what a gift.