It has been a week of gradually getting back our lives after Covid. Beckie stopped by Monday morning to bring us some of her famous chicken and rice soup. We sat out in the backyard in the shade socially distanced. It was good to visit with her and the soup was enjoyed for several meals. I still taught cello lessons all week but with the exception of one in-person on Friday morning, the rest were virtual. I worked on orchestra business all week, sat through a two-hour Zoom board meeting Tuesday night. Thursday marked the sixth day after our last fevers so, according to CDC guidelines, we were "not contagious" and we ventured out to the bank and to make a return at a store. We also had a temple trip planned long ago with Melanie and we kept that - we just wore masks. We also were scheduled to work in the baptistry Friday evening and we wore our masks and kept that assignment as well, sitting down as much as we could throughout the shift. It has been challenging to know how much to pace ourselves. We walked with Fred for the first time Thursday morning but only did half of the usual route. I spent about fifteen minutes with a shovel in the yard Saturday morning and that was all I could do. I cleaned the floors on Saturday and ran an errand to JoAnn and to the pottery studio to pick up some stuff and by Saturday night, I knew I had pushed myself bit too hard. I have been very weary all day today, opting to take a nap rather than write a blog this morning. Steve and I figured we would test ourselves Saturday morning as a precautionary measure and we were both still positive! The test kit was just outside of its expiration date so I picked up more test kits after going to JoAnn and we tested again last night and we were STILL positive! Ugh! So Steve opted to stay home from church, I went but I work an N95 mask the whole time. More ugh!
As we continued to gain our strength back this week, we obviously did quite a bit of television and movie watching:
The Impossible - not our first time to watch. It was fun to see a young Tom Holland and it was a powerful movie.
Christmas Mystery - kind of cheesy.
Hachi - our second watch. Totally sobbed at the end.
Ruby at the Well - started watching this series. Very charming
Instant Dream Home - a cross between an HGTV show and Random Acts. The hostess is just a bit much, though, and you mostly want to strangle her.
We have just returned this evening from Ballwin where we helped Larkin celebrate her birthday two days early. Because we are still testing positive, we ate our ice cream sundaes outside and we had to push the time back due to a lovely cloudburst (which we REALLY needed). It was fun to be with everyone.
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