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4/22/21 Last week's art project in Mrs. G.'s kindergarten class. I love the projects she has the kids do. Yesterday they made dandelion playdough. Each child had to pick 20 dandelions, then they put them all in a big bucket with hot water and added vegetable oil, flour, and salt. Three friends mixed it with their hands, then other friends came with scoops to distribute it. Some even came home -- in a gross little ziploc we found in our little friend's backpack, totally unidentifiable. We'd clearly missed the memo (on the Seesaw online school program).
April 24, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
12/23/20 C has had covid, I didn't realize, I thought it was just her partner. Her leg is still hurting her a lot and she doesn't want to go to the doctor because she's uninsured. She does feel better though thank G-d. worry about her and wish there were more I could do. I think she was deliberately vague while she was sick so we wouldn't all worry about her, she only talked about her husband's symptoms. A local aid society had a special low cost holiday meal and we ordered two. How sweet! What a lovely thing to do. (It turned out to be not very much food and not really very good, but still a lovely thought) Slept badly, crying, kept feeling like I am stubbing my mind on my aunt being gone -- something sticking out that keeps causing unexpected surprise pain. Mediocre chat with R who was not focusing on me but lovely chat with T and then with B. But all feels so effortful, I can cobble together support but I have to work so hard at it, and being connected to my aunt was so easy! 12/24/20 S runs a half marathon for the first time! Definitely a pandemic project for him given the lack of gym access. He ran the whole way wearing a mask. L's relative in the hospital with a non-covid condition can only get one 1/2 hr visit a day because of Covid and has to be restrained while on ventilator. So very sad. 12/25/20 Miserable night of sleep, crying about my aunt (you left without saying goodbye!!) 12/26/20 Got to watch two premiering movies (Soul from Pixar, a lot of death! but sweet, and Wonder Woman 1984, utterly ghastly even though I love Gal Gadot) that we wouldn't have seen otherwise because it's so hard for me to go to movie theater, need a lot of special equipment and preparation and sometimes it's just not worth all the extra trouble and pain. Fun to have the pandemic streaming premieres. 12/28/20 Signed up for a remote grief support group. Would be a lot harder for me to access if it weren't over Zoom, the facilitator says she's never done one over Zoom before
December 30, 2020