Academically, there were some touch and go moments with Ben but it all ended (mostly) well. Will did a decent job of humoring us. He sat at the table for some lessons but mostly worked on his own in his room. Abbie downright refused to participate and says she completed her work each day. 🤷🏻♀️
Ben on a Zoom call with his class.
Andy spent his days mostly occupied on phone calls. He did ask me on Friday if he could go to Chicago for work. Yeah, cue the rewind sound...WAIT, what?!?!? I looked at him like he was absolutely ridiculous, but told him to do what he wanted. My only stipulation was he self-quarantine for 2 weeks upon his return. He decided to stay and has set up compete shop in his home office. I have used the ‘F’ word more times than I care to admit in order to get the boys to quiet down while Andy is on calls. Desperate times call for bad words. It’s true, don’t judge.
Abbie has mostly kept to herself. Every once in awhile she comes upstairs to eat an entire bag of chips and complain to us she is bored. At some point during the week, she threatened to dig a tunnel to Bill and Paula’s. Andy wished her well in the event of a national shut down. I assume she has finally realized this is real stuff happening out in the world because she has thankfully stopped asking to go anywhere/have people over. Sunday she curled her hair for fun. Which has never happened so boredom is obvious getting to her. You can kind of see it here.
I left the house a few times to go to the grocery store, post office, and Dollar General. Abbie and I even ventured over to Staunton to Bill's IGA to try to find bread. No luck, but we scored a $3.69 pack of hot dog buns. One day I walked to the mailbox for fun. Not kidding.
Otherwise, I went to the school a couple days to see if they needed help with lunch meals, delivered some toiletries to families, and packed Blessings bags and delivered those to homes.
The cats are getting bored. They have been eating an entire bowl of food everyday. I think they are annoyed that we are home all day and they are on the brink of depression.
Just look at his annoyed face.
In other animal news, Chewy was laid to rest yesterday. He died sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. The good news is he went out with a bang. Ben had him out Thursday afternoon showing his class on their video chat, and Will and Ben had him out that night. He made it almost 2 years, which apparently is a normal hamster life expectancy.
Here are some Chewy memories via photos.
Coming home.
Returning to health
After our vet visit and near death
His great escape
He never stopped trying to do it again
Ben seemed to do okay with the death. He knew it was likely coming.
He is now asking for a guinea pig. Blech!!!!!!
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