The total count of the virus hit over 200,000 overnight.
People are really coming together on Facebook in our community but also around the world. Offers to help drop off to people in isolation are available. We have a few friends have offered and we will spread our requests out - Jim picked up groceries for us yesterday and Joy is going to go to the dollar store today and pick up some craft supplies for the girls, Sarah found a painting class online where they’ll paint a colourful rooster so the girls will go over there to do that this afternoon.
I got the PC Express to work and have fruits and veggies and bread ordered for Friday pick up. I figure by then our fruits and veggies will be lower in supply and we will need a stock up. It looks as if the grocery store will be moving more towards a pre-order and deliver to your trunk system in the coming days.
Trudeau and Trump announced they will now be closing the border for any non-essential travel across. We’re taking that to mean that the, what we can only assume to be, hundreds of thousands of snow birds in the southern US making their way home to Canada will all be allowed over the border with no issues. They want no tourism or recreational crossings permitted, only essential services and personnel to keep the supply chain in tact.
We’re thinking its possible the girls might be out of school for longer, AS of now all schools will be open April 6th.
Joy went out to Dollarama and got me the canvases and paint brushes for the girls. We picked them up off of her porch and the girls went over to Sarah’s to do their free online paint class to paint a colourful rooster, a ‘rainbow cock’ as Avery put it..I love it that they’re getting older! Haha. I sent them over with some veggies, the leftover cupcakes and a couple of limes for Sarah since they didn’t eat anything but a chocolate peanut butter banana protein shake this morning before leaving. Limes were one of 3 items that Zehrs couldn’t fulfill on Sarah’s online order she picked up last night, we had 3 so I gave her 2. I’ll likely just use them for guacamole when the avocados ripen up.
Because we were in Costa Rica right until the 23rd of December this year I didn’t do any of my Christmas baking. I did, however, buy the ingredients. A couple of times my Mom asked me when I was going to be baking the cheesy crackers and I was like 🤷♀️. After Jim grabbed me some extra Rice Krispies I made a bunch today and sent her a text.
They freeze well so they’re good to take out a dozen or so at a time. I took some over to Sarah when I dropped the girls today and I’ll bring Juls some tomorrow.
As I was baking the cheesy crackers I asked the girls if they wanted to transfer some of my old recipes to new sheets and organize them in a box that I had bought at Costco this year and never done. Usually I would be a little anal about all the writing being neat in the recipe box but now I think that I’ll always look back and remember when the girls wrote these all out for me.
Look how happy Ava looks. Haha. She actually did like doing it.
I bought a Keurig online today, I’ve been wanting one but was waiting until I have enough Canadian Tire points to buy it..I just went on Canadian Tire’s website and bought it since I can’t go out for coffee really. I didn’t buy any pods, I just plan to use the reusable filter. So I bought that too. I need to stop, because this could go on a long time. There isn’t anything else we really need so I’ll put a hiatus on online shopping other than groceries!
Mom and Dad crossed the border into Canada with no issues just before 3pm. Glad to have them home. Mom said that the border services person told him that they were a quarantine officer and to self-quarantine when they got home and gave them a sheet of paper with instructions for if they started to show any symptoms, which is unlikely.
About 3:30pm I got a text from Avery saying they were ready to be picked up at Sarah’s house, I got some pictures of their artwork. Ellie wanted to hold hers upside down and Sarah made her turn it right side up, so after I had a picture (or three) I said, “Do you want to turn yours upside down?” “Yes!”
This is what their rainbow cock is supposed to look like:
The girls played here for another few hours until Steve and Trevor came over for a workout. Trev has just reset his 14 day window by coming here but now he doesn’t have to isolate 100% by himself, which would totally suck.
I watched Aladdin on Disney+. We share our Netflix password with Matthew and Carrie-Lyn and they share their Disney+ with us so we have access to a lot of movies and shows for the next 2 weeks. This is the first TV I’ve watched since a LONG time.
We played SuperTock tonight, Jay and Paige vs me and Sophie. They won. Twice. Paige was being a twit at one point so I wedgied her..she told me to sleep with one eye open tonight. Lol.
Going to bed now.
Update end of day. No new cases today in China which is great news. 2953 in the US today and 129 new cases in Canada.
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