chaos

Quin has been out of school since March 12th. Ammon hasn't had preschool since then. Parks, libraries, schools, playgrounds, restaurants, movie theaters, zoos, amusement parks, basically anything not essential to human survival is closed. I've really been struggling. I keep the playground or the mall as an emergency backup in case of a crazy parenting day. Now if things get crazy we have to keep staying at home. Michael is still commuting for work in Monmouth. He reasons that the databases and websites he keeps running are essential, and I guess that's true. Right now everyone is shopping online for everything. It's been hard to take care of all 3 kids for 11 hours every weekday. My mom comes over and helps, which makes it survivable; especially since I'm expected to do home school with Quin to keep him caught up. It's been hard to keep Quin on task while entertaining Ammon and Ruby at the same time.

Our new apartment was inspected last week and we had expected to move in sometime this week. After not hearing back for several days Michael called them and they said our paperwork is stuck at the State. We don't know when or even if we'll be moving there.

To add to the excitement, I had a case of mastitis, immediately followed by Ammon having an unresolved ear infection come back, immediately followed by Ruby having an ear infection. I don't feel like I was allowed to recover from my infection. Our sleep has been interrupted over the last two weeks and it augments the stress. I've developed a slight hand tremor and have been screaming a lot more than usual.