Day 21 - 93 cases and 4 deaths

2020 April 7

Tuesday

11:38pm:

March 26: 1 case
March 28: 2 cases
March 29: 15 cases
March 30: 20 cases
March 31: 29 cases (2 deaths)

April 1: 35 cases
April 2: 40 cases
April 3: 52 cases
April 4: 55 cases
April 5: 61 cases (3 deaths)
April 6: 65 cases
April 7: 93 cases (4 deaths)

There was a huge spike in confirmed cases in my region today, and another death.

This news put a damper on what was otherwise a relatively pleasant, low-key day. We did school-type stuff in the morning, had sandwiches for lunch, I made ribs for supper and everyone was very appreciative. I didn’t get the cake made or the hostas moved, and that’s okay — I’ll make the cake tomorrow, and move the hostas later this week. I’m having trouble sleeping, so I’m taking melatonin at night for a week — I’m a few days in and it is helping, provided I can quiet my mind enough to let it work.

Tonight that is a little hard to do, though.

Tomorrow is my youngest’s 1st birthday — a “last first” in our house.

Celebrating in isolation is not what I had planned — I wanted to be looking forward a 1 year photo shoot like her sisters had so I could have a grouping of similar photos of my youngest three at around the same age, I wanted to be planning a walk on a trail to feed the chickadees, I wanted.. many things, but that’s not how things are going to unfold and I need to be okay with that.

This is a small disappointment in the grand scheme of things, but in others it is a huge milestone in my life — my last baby moving out of babyhood and into toddlerhood and beyond. I’m trying to reconcile myself with it all, and I will be fine, but tonight I’m a little sad.