Corona Diary, Day 16

Initially I thought I wouldn't blog much during this period of home schooling and home isolation. Honestly, not much is going on in our little bubble (=read, our house), other than exercise, school, cooking meals, reading and watching TV.

But then I thought that sometime in the future when all of this hopefully is just a distant memory, like a bad dream, it could be interesting to read about how it all evolved and what happened. Even if it feels like time is standing still here in our house and every day is Groundhog Day, a lot happens around us in the world and every week feels like a year. I actually regret I didn't start a bit of a diary already two weeks ago. Ah well, we still have some time to go with this I guess..!

Today it has been 16 days of staying at home without seeing NOBODY else than our family. Linnea has actually not left the house at all, Nathan was at work until Tuesday and Lucas have come to help with the groceries, but mostly - we have been just hunkering down.

This week we had our first week with home school. The first two days went by really fast, and I was impressed at how the kids tackled this new situation, and were rather positive about it. But then, it quickly became the longest week ever...
The school work is getting done, and it seems like they are more efficient when there are no distractions. I can see how they miss their friends and the school environment though, and it's hard motivating them. They too suffer from the same-same-every-day-blues we all experience. Understandably. Next week we will try with small tweaks to our daily routine to shake things up a little bit. We have realized we have to get these kids exercising in some way for example, let's see how that goes...

In the UAE, everything is now closed. Shopping malls also closed this week leaving only grocery shops and pharmacies allowed to keep open. Even our borders are now closed, no passenger air traffic for (at least) two weeks. The public has been urged to stay inside unless for absolute necessities this weekend, as there is a national disinfection and sanitation programme being performed. So we continue to hunker down, we got this.

As long as the treadmill, the coffee machine or the WiFi doesn't give up - I should have a fair chance of hopefully getting out of this with some kind of sanity left.