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Figuring out Quarantine

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Most of the shutdowns had occurred, and now it was time to figure out what to do next. This post covers life from March 23 - April 2nd ish??  No school, no church, and no work. No zoo, no museums, no restaurants. No parties or play dates. No sports leagues to play in or watch. For a very active family that is involved in all of these things on a weekly basis, this was really hard hit for us!  The only thing that I could think to do was make some posters to help us process everything going on, or rather process everything going off. Our first poster answered this question: "What does Covid19 mean?" Remember, at this point, our kids still didn't really understand why everything was shutting down because it all happened so quickly (and frankly, I don't think any of us adults understood what was going on either!) It was important to talk more about this as a family.   All four of us wrote responses on the poster. Covid19 means: mis-information, shutdowns, cranky kids, c...