Some basic advice for Weathering the Storm in Place

How to avoid this unknown number of weeks becoming an ordeal and a trauma rather than a memory of simply a hard time.

1) Get up and get dressed. Make a list of things to do. Brainstorm with your family as to what they are.

2) Cook meals. Plan the meals.

3) Declare screen free time and reading time and outside time. and game time. Variety is key.

4) Tackle a project you've put off --like cleaning out a closet.

5) Exercise.

6) Group prayer, and private prayer.

7) Make sure everyone showers every night.

8) Have nail polish, face masks, etc. stuff you haven't used? Time to break them out.

9) Practice musical instruments/hobbies you've ignored.

10) Remember, the goal is not to either be exposed or expose others to the disease, so weeks without is a gift to your neighbors and your family.

Final rule? Stay clean, stay calm, be kind.

Small Success Thursday

This week was full; twenty-seven items on the "To Do" list every day kind of full.  As such, I've instigated a new sanity rule, no lists of things to do over 20 for any given day.  That being said, these were my successes for this week at doing the right thing.

1) I read "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett.  It was a fast read and I loved it and I'm very grateful to my friend Karen for giving it to me.

2) We went school shopping.  I'm still in recovery.

3) My oldest daughter started high school.

4) The Fall Festival plans are starting to come together.  One month to go.

5) After listening to my lecture about how bad habits form when we fail to establish good ones and that the hardest thing to overcome is inertia, two of my children picked up their instruments for the first time in two months.  Of course, it meant I had to exercise.  I hate it when the advice I give is then demanded of me, or rather, I don't hate it but wish sometimes I could get a pass with these guys --not a chance.   So yes, I did my 20 push ups and 20 sit ups today. 

6)  Got to the dentist.  Not a whoopie kind of thing but it was actually an appointment for me. 

7) Wrote a piece, worked on Helen, am trying to fast from the computer except for emails and writing --not because I don't want to be informed but because it's more important I be involved.  I know I've been using this machine as a shield against being more active, so I had to put the machine away.  And yes, my kids are helping with this matter.   They're very good at nagging.  I wonder where they learned it? 

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