Day 1 - Coronatine

Well here we are like five months after my last post. We've had ups, we've had downs. I acquired a work from home job and then got laid off due to lack of work about 6 weeks later. I've started several projects since my last post, and more importantly, I have finished two projects this year already. The first being The Castle, my oldest project.

And the second was Small Cuppa, one of my newer projects. No, it didn't all line up when I closed the frame of the cup, yes I fudged it anyway.

As a family, we were sick this winter, almost constantly, from Halloween until just a couple of weeks ago and now that the Plague is making the rounds I expect we'll be sick again before too long. It seemed never ending this year, one cold after another, but most significant was the weeks-long fatigue that seemed like it would never end. I was so tired I was barely functioning and I'm afraid this blog took the hit.

Mostly I'm back because I've been feeling a need to document what is going on these days and I wanted something a little less transient than social media.

The hubs was ordered to work from home about a week and a half ago. We've been slowly watching our civil liberties be eroded by the panic and fear. And yesterday, our Governor dropped a state-wide  "it's not a lock down but it's really a lock down" order, requiring all non-essential workers to stay home for three weeks, certain reasonable exceptions in place, for now anyway. This has resulted in multiple rounds of panic buying at the grocery stores, even though the food supply chain is fully intact. I nearly had a meltdown yesterday when I couldn't find Cheerios in the store. (Long story short, the Smidget has a pretty limited diet due to food allergies and Cheerios are a staple, most substitutes he cannot eat.) I was able to acquire some at a different store thank goodness or we would have been in so. much. trouble.

I am already at the end of my rope. I have a toddler who is both hyperactive and extremely social, so even if I give him a movie to watch, he wants to sit on my lap. It's cute and adorable but I'm all social'd out after the last week and a half of trying to meet the Smidget's social and play needs and the hubs, who is also an extreme extrovert, and literally never getting a break. I haven't been sleeping well for about a week, my vitamins are out of stock everywhere so I haven't been able to take the supplements that keep my mood stable. I can't even take the Smidget to the grocery store at this point, let alone anywhere where he could have fun and play and burn off some energy. It's been too cold to play outside for long, although that might start changing soon. Consequently, he's both cranky and hyperactive and not at all inclined to listen to anybody. We spent most of today yelling at each other and if I have to listen to one more episode of Dora the Explorer, the consequences will be severe.

I am grateful that we have not yet been impacted significantly financially at this point but we were only promised two weeks work from home and I literally don't know what will happen at the end of this week, whether they will continue to pay salary or whether they'll temporarily lay everyone off. 

In a last-ditch effort to maintain my sanity, I started a new project yesterday. I'm going to attempt to work on it every day of the "not-lock-down" and as it is smaller than most of my projects, I expect it won't take to long to finish. The project's text is a blessing that I wish upon every parent stuck in the house with one or more small children right now.

The pattern was acquired on Etsy and due to the salmon floss matching the fabric I chose, I swapped it out for a yellow.

I expect I'll be updating every couple of days, if only to get my thoughts out of my head. I hope you all are hanging in there okay these days.