Pandemic Chronicles: Week One

The first full week of this new normal was March 15th-21st. During that week, I still went into work like "normal", and Mr.Pate held down the homeschool fort. He also had two additional kids that Monday, and one additional kid the rest of the week :-)

The kids did well working at home and playing at night. We played a few games of indoor soccer and basketball, parents vs. kids.

We did Wednesday night church via Zoom (the first of many Church Zoom meetings, haha), and played some crazy scavenger hunts with lots of laughing.

Thursday and Friday, church grilled food for Bristow families and we helped deliver meals to many.

Friday night the kiddos had a movie night with the Brennans, and we got Yuki for a little "date night". Because this "take out only" world was new to most restaurants, it took almost the whole time for us just to get the sushi, haha. The kids had a blast though, and that would be our last date night for who knows how long?

Saturday, we had our first Zoom church staff meeting to figure out all this new online ministry world. Then we played basketball with the boys and neighborhood kids outside. This would end up being the last time we did this also, but at this point we didn't even consider social distancing from them outside. It was a super fun day, and might be the longest I have played basketball. Haha.