2020 Life Logs, Day 345: Quarantine Life
Date: Friday, December 11, 2020
Weather: Partly Sunny and Warmer: High 52, Low 43 Degrees
Location: At Home in The Cottage, Falmouth, MA
We have made it through the first four days of our quarantine life. Sam and Jed seem to be enjoying their time together, but they miss being together with Heather, Jonah, and Ollie. And visa-versa. We are having a good time at my house, but, of course, Heather, Jonah, and Ollie would rather be at home. The good news is that Sam is not developing any symptoms. Tomorrow will be five full days since his primary Covid exposure and he will get a test. But even if the test is negative, he cannot return to school as the school system requires a test on day 8. But the family might feel comfortable enough to reunite. We’ll just wait and see how things go.
After school today Ollie did some leaf clean-up work in a neighbor’s yard to make a little money. He was working in Andrew’s yard, the new neighbor that will be moving here in the spring. I was outside with him, playing with Shadow and we got to watch a beautiful red sunset. I sent a text to Heather and Jonah and they came down to the water to see the sunset as well. These are the happy times of being together.
As a reward for making it through this week, Heather and I told the boys we could watch a Christmas movie tonight. They chose Home Alone 1 which neither Heather nor I were enthusiastic about, but we actually really enjoyed it. As we have each evening this week, we connected with Jed and Sam via Zoom during dinner and we stayed connected all evening. Jed and Sam watched the same movie at their house and we could talk to each other during the movie. This is quarantine life!
