I can’t focus on or follow the news right now. There is a lot of uncertainty. Sometimes you’ll read a glimmer of hope but for the most part it all remains heavy and scary so I just take breaks as needed. The thing that is troubling me the most now is this continued lack of PPE to protect our frontline healthcare workers. Without doctors and nurses where are we? The ventilator and bed shortage is frightening. So sometimes I just put it away in the back of my mind and focus on what is in front of me. A little thunderstorm blew threw early this morning and now tonight more are firing up. Which brings me to my latest concern: the threat of spring severe weather that has become increasingly violent due to climate change colliding with Covid-19. I’ve lost a home to such a threat so it is all very real to me. Illinois is expecting severe weather tomorrow so I will be following that closely.
Thad played in the front yard all afternoon while Marc worked from a lawn chair. I know he was really working because Thad was operating mostly unsupervised and got super dirty requiring an immediate bath. I stayed in baking monster cookies while Hart napped. We are sleeping with the windows open. The spring peepers sure are peeping.
We attempted family movie night with Mrs. Doubtfire but it held no one’s attention. So we switched it to a live stream concert by my good high school friend Christy Hays. It is all the rage right now. Everyone is doing it and it is a nice way to pass the time.
It is 11pm and we just now (!!!) got both little boys to bed. My favorite television chef, Vivian Howard, premiered her new show on PBS tonight. I didn’t get to pay much attention because Thad was leading us through a very funny, very cute, and surprisingly challenging meditation and stretching routine. Now a Ken Burns doc on the Roosevelt family is on that I’d like to watch so off I go.
The Mother Bever 