Wednesday: home

 The day went well.  The craziness at the end of the day involved fighting with balloons.  It didn't involve hitting me, so it was mostly ok.

It's Isaac's last day home, so tomorrow the dynamics will change a lot.  Tomorrow is rather busy with trying to get everybody and everything in the right place at the right time.

Tuesday: mean parents

Today was a snow day.  Ben and I didn't tell the children.  You see, they were already going to stay at home.  Ben had to work while at home.  So they still needed some structure.

Ben did say they got more screen time than normal though, so even though they didn't know it was a snow day they still got some of the benefits.  Isaac was rather surprised that his teacher never posted any work on Google Classroom though. :)

Joshua got a bit camera happy while emptying the dishwasher.

Monday: positive

I woke up to Joshua's PCR results: negative.  Let's be honest though, I didn't really believe it.  So we subjected Joshua to yet another nasal swab for a rapid test and that clearly turned positive.

The day was fine, but by the end of the day I was done.  The kids did all their work without complaint, but they were bouncing off the walls by the end of the day and I was ...not.  They did some of their coding activities for a while and that helped...Horizon trapped me on the couch during that time so I had no choice but to read.

Sunday: normal day

Today was a pretty normal day, other than people wearing masks.  No one was sick.  

We're still waiting on Joshua's PCR results, but even if he gets a negative I will hesitate to send him to school.  It'll involve another rapid test and possibly a call to the doctor.

Saturday: fever

Joshua woke up today with a fever.  His rapid test came back negative, but we really doubt that it is negative so we brought him in for a PCR too.  The fever was gone for most of the afternoon (without fever reducers) but returned at night.

My PCR test came back negative.  I had 15 minutes of a runny nose and a few weird muscle aches.  Probably just due to it being cold outside and not getting enough sleep Wednesday night.  I'm just hyper-sensitive to anything that's wrong.

Friday: continuing on

Joshua's bed: 

Giraffe got a mask:

We skied on the lake.  Isaac enjoyed going down the tiny hill right before the lake, but not so much the hill next to our house.

Thursday: positive

Well, Isaac tested positive for COVID.  There is so much going around right now that I kind of expected this would happen at some point.  Guess it's a good thing that we kept him home.

We got the results at 11:45pm last night.  I really wasn't expecting a positive result, but between school and karate it also isn't surprising, even if he does wear a mask.  I didn't sleep well the rest of the night.  Partly thinking about what needed to happen today, partly because I was cold.  My foot warmer cooled off while I was taking a rapid test for myself.  I considered getting up to get something warm, but of course that would have made me colder in the short term so my sleepy brain decided not to.

Today went fine.  We're making Isaac wear a mask at home and trying to stay away from him, but we also haven't banished him to his bedroom.  (In some ways we figure it's probably too late since we were around him for three days since onset of symptoms.)  He was a bit sad by the end of the day, but he understands what's going on and complies.

Joshua was so sad this morning.  Mainly because he thinks that Isaac gets to play all day.  While this is a mostly untrue, Isaac does get some more play time.  We've also moved Joshua's bed out of Isaac's room.  I really wasn't sure how this was going to go, since Joshua seems to hate sleeping in his own bedroom and I didn't want him sleeping in our bedroom either.  After school he said he'd sleep under the table.  Well, his mattress doesn't fit under the table, but we rigged up some sort of fort for him that was sufficient.  I don't really understand what's going on, but it's not a battle that I care enough about to fight either.

Isaac gets to go back to school next Thursday and has to continue masking for another five days.  Perhaps we'll let him take a two month break from masks after that?  The school called to give me these dates and I was able to proudly say that Joshua is fully vaccinated and that's why we kept sending him to school.

edit: for reference later, this is probably the Omicron variant.  That is what is currently the most predominant in the area and has the highest probability of infection if vaccinated.