Corona is the WORST!

With Spring break nearing to an end, and our future under some BIG uncertainty,

we went out to dinner early to celebrate Lindi's birthday!

She picked Organ Stop Pizza!
Normally we would cringe because her birthday is at the tail
of the snow bird season.

I don't know why that place is a magnet for crowds and old people?

But with talk of a deadly virus, the high riskers stayed in their mobil trailers, 
which made the restaurant half as busy as it normally is. Holla!

And a stop at DQ for dessert.
Bonus that is was bogo week!

Our freezer confirmed that:)

Then it happened.
School was officially cancelled. 

TEARS!!!

For 2 weeks. To stop the spread and help the curve.

Not just schools. Restaurants, gyms, hair salons, DENTIST
offices (most mind boggling one to me). Pretty much all non essential 

business. Either they were sent home to work, or shut down.
No sports for the kids.

Our filled to the brim days were suddenly canceled.
Zilch. Gone. Nada. 
Uh, now what do we do?

Arizona was put on a social distancing mandate.
Stay 6 ft away from others, and no more than 10 people in a group.

We were lucky, because other parts of the US were on worse lock downs.

It was like we were living in the twilight zone. 
Luckily Casey was able to keep working like normal. 

My brother in law, who is a dentist, had to shut down his office.

And was asked to DONATE all of his medical masks and gloves to the

"over run" hospitals. 

Umm, those cost a lot of money.

This is when it became more political to me.

I had a gut feeling this was going to be WAY longer than a 2 week hiatus. 

News around the world was that Italy and China had their citizens in

a literal lock down in their own homes.

Prisoners! 

Only one person could leave at a time to get essential items. 

I could not fathom that. 

As we were wrapping our brains around this pandemic that seemed to happen over

night, I think the only way to cope was by humor. 

Then the memes started pouring in.
Sadly, they are spot on!

While the schools scrambled to get together a plan for these poor kiddos,
I improvised as best as possible with printed off worksheets. 

Lets just say, home school is for the birds.

I think it got real for me when food was sparse on the grocery store shelves.
Every store looked ravished. 
Lines out the door to get into Costco, with literally NO toilet paper,
and other normal heavily stocked perishables.

It was as if we were living in the Hunger Games book. 

We went to Grammy's house to help her
with yard work.

Rusty and Dallin went to work with Casey.

Tinkering around out front.

Luckily we still had good weather in our favor.

The world was in the mode of shamming for being outside of your house,
or being around people.

Not us!
WE WERE NOT FEARFUL.
In fact, we were the complete opposite.
I could go on and on about this, but I wont.
For now:)

Stephanie, Leah and I were already losing our ever loving minds.
We would scour the internet looking for places that were still open.

In Come Follow Me, our lesson for the week was about the Allegory
of the Olive Tree.
I had always wanted to go out to Queen Creek
 olive mill to take a tour.
I called and sure enough, the were still open!!
They had to limit groups to only 10 because of the new rule.
We had 12, but since we were family they made an exception. 

I think it felt like going to Disneyland.
I will support any business fighting tooth and nail to stay open.
A normal activity felt so refreshing.

We ate lunch first.
I have never had such  delicious food!
Everything from the kids chicken fingers, to potato chips was 
made from scratch!
The atmosphere was so quaint and inviting as well.

Then we had our tour!
I think the kids normally would have been bored about olives,
but we had been talking quite a bit about them so it peeked their interest!

Plus, our guide was a hoot.
She was extra animated for the kids sake.

In fact, she reminded me of the girl on Mean Girls,

" I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip flops, so I 
bought army pants and flip flops".

LOL! Bless her heart. 

We survived our first week of quarantine.

I think this is how the whole world was feeling about it.