DAY 6

I am getting so bored that I actually shaved my legs this morning. For the first time in months. I was in the shower and I thought, hmm, I've got nowhere to go, no hurry to get out of the shower. I might as well shave my legs. If there was anything else I could have done while I was in there I would have. Cause you know, now it's one of the only places I can be alone. This social isolation is an introverts dream, except that I have several people here with me. One of them is my constant companion.

I made the mistake of looking at my stock portfolio online. I won't be doing that again. I don't want to be the home school mom who is fired for drinking on the job. I'll just ignore it and remind myself that  haven't really lost a sh*t ton of money unless I panic and SELL, SELL, SELL. If I had been thinking clearly six weeks ago I might have done that instead of focusing on buying extra tuna fish and peanut butter every time I went to the grocery store.

Miss Nine face-timed with her bff a couple of times today. That seemed to relieve some of their despair over not being able to play together. Girls can talk for hours over the funniest things. I heard them discussing the ways that their parents embarrass them. I wanted to tell them that we will up our game when they become teenagers.

We made a trip out to do a porch pickup of some books that were offered up on Freecycle. When I was a kid my mom and grandma used to take us for a drive on Sunday afternoons. No destination, just a drive, We might stop somewhere, or just circle around and come home. There were no seat belts, so my brother and I would be all over the back seat, on the floor, up in the back window, hanging out the side windows. Gas is cheap, we might have to try out some drives to nowhere just to get out and relieve the monotony.

Miss Nine did some painting and some math, and read a book. I am going to start reading the Little House on the Prairie series to her. Those girls lived in some serious social isolation. It might give us some perspective on our situation. In one of the books Laura tells about the whole family coming down with some horrible sickness in the middle of nowhere. I am not sure where they picked up this bug. Pa must have brought it home with him on a random trip to town for supplies.

My husband set up another tent in the yard yesterday with the intention of camping out. The temperature was going up into the sixties overnight. College boy did not care to join them. He is happily self isolating in his room chatting with friends online. I had no desire to sleep outside at this point either. The two of them lit the grill and cooked a steak. They ate dinner out in the garage because it was raining by that time. At bedtime the plan fell apart due to continuing rain and they slept inside. Our backyard is starting to look like a campground. Maybe I will start renting those tents out by the hour to other parents who just need to get away from it all.