Coronavirus - 5 months in

 We used to be worried about toilet paper. Now we're just wondering what the new normal is going to be.

It takes a while to establish norms, and I think that's the period we're entering. There's talk that this virus isn't going to go away - there was that talk at the beginning, which seems absurd - and that's starting to sound like the most likely scenario. So, we're going to have to create some new norms, for social interactions, for shopping, for employment, for exercise, for a lot of things. 

Right now, there's so much up in the air. 160,000+ deaths, and I was thinking that 60K would be a catastrophic event. Ha. Now we're not even thinking about the numbers, we're just thinking yeah, a lot of people are dying, but it's not us or people we know, but let's not say that too loudly because the next thing you know it will be us and the people we know and I have a sore throat tonight, and I'm serious.

Milestones - 6 years, six months

 I mean, we don't really count in months anymore. The kid is 6...and change.

Milestones

Today

-Made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by himself, without telling anyone he was going to do it

This year

-Goes poo by himself - wipes and everything, though were not sure how well. 

-Plays The Entertainer on Piano

-Learns borrowing (Subtraction)

-Learns a lot of Chinese due to his immersion class, but now that that's over because of the virus, who knows how much he'll learn...

And he swims underwater now, though he doesn't swim as well as when he had regular lessons at the YMCA...and will the YMCA ever have lessons again?  Who knows.

-ND