This morning I woke up at 3AM feeling sick. I lay in bed resting, reading news, and passing the time until I got up at 5:15 to go to basketball. About to put my shoes on, I thought and chose to cancel basketball and also call in sick to work. It was the right call. I crawled back into bed, fell asleep and got up around 9:00 and have been feeling sick all day. I’m pretty sure I have what Lily has had. I have sinus pressure, a cough, body aches, and very mild chills, and perhaps a very mild fever, but there may be no fever at all. Whenever I take my temperature it seems to be either no fever or a very mild fever. It mostly just feels like a sinus infection. Still though, I got some good advice from family members, and read up on the CDC website and I’m doing my best to follow their instructions on what to do when you are sick with Corona, even though I don’t think that’s what I have.
I followed my energy throughout the day. Sometimes that meant laying flat on my back. Sometimes that meant being productive like putting groceries away, filling up our 150 gallon containers with storage water, working on coordinating condo repairs etc. Lily went out to various stores and stocked up on lots of food. It’s amazing how all the store supplies are disappearing.
Also, Moroni, our contractor, made amazing progress on our basement today, and it was fun to admire it.
Lily is still sick too and Ammon, Mary and Clarissa still have coughs so we are still in recovery mode. Lily is still powering through her German and finding ways to be productive even though she is not feeling well.
The highlight of the day was when my dad, Suzanne, Jere and David came over. It was great to see my brothers for the second day in a row, and I always love seeing my dad and Suzanne.
We all had such a good time. We showed the family how Ammon comes down the stairs in our house. Here is a video.
Lydia and Mary drew with their uncle Jere.
Dad and Suzanne treated everyone to Slab pizza and it was so delicious. My favorite slice was their bbq pizza with egg on it.
Clarissa “ate” three pieces of pizza meaning she ate the cheese off of them. After she would finish the cheese on a slice, she would point to the crust and say, “this is yuck, can I have more?”
This was a picture taken 16 years ago right before my dad married Suzanne. Suzanne had the awesome idea to completely recreate the photo. My dad even wore the same shirt today!
Here is a picture of us checking our orientation. We wanted the pose to be just like the original picture. I’m excited to get the final product from Suzanne!
Here is a picture of the March birthdays.
While we waited for the surprise cookies and ice cream to arrive, I shared the cute notes Mary made for us when we returned from Bora Bora (insisting I give her a piggy back ride and have a dance party for being gone so long) and then Clarissa sang Into The Unkown from Frozen II. Here are the clips of her singing:
Then we celebrated March birthdays with cookies and ice cream from “The Chocolate.”
Lydia and Mary got the ultimate piggy back ride from Jere.
Clarissa got in on the piggy backing action too!
All in all it was a really good time. We caught up on each other’s lives. Talked about Jere’s job at Salesforce, David’s work at the University of Vermont, Olivia’s new job, and many other things. It was so so so fun to visit.
After everything died down I sorted some pictures for Lydia and Mary to put in their safe-keeping bins. Here is a cute one from Mary.
And a cute one from Lydia.
Also, here is an adorable note Mary made for Lily this week.
