Today is National Superhero Day. Allison has been making masks and she found some great material that have the Marvel superheroes on it. She made this one for me that has Iron Man showing quite prominently. I wore it for the better part of the morning.
First thing I did was take Andy over to America’s Best Defense because we could pick up our new belts. We both earned our green belts and also our first stripes on those belts. We continue to take classes every Monday and Wednesday via Zoom.
I brought Andy back to the house and then went out again to the Post Office and then Stop & Shop. It is hard being out and about. Things needed to get done. Groceries needed to be picked up and masks needed to be mailed out. I could not believe how many people were not wearing anything over their mouths and noses or if they were wearing masks the masks were not completely covering their mouths and noses. Not very effective.
I’ve been thinking on national superhero day and how real heroes are everywhere helping people every day. From the doctors and nurses on the front lines treating people who have the disease to our first responders also putting their lives at risk. Then there are people who have to work everyday jobs who are also in the line of fire of this disease. The least that the rest of us can do is try our best to protect them and that means taking the necessary precautions like wearing a mask, keeping safe distance and washing our hands.
While we are homebound during the quarantine there are some things that we have been doing to pass the time. The kids have been doing some silly food stuff. They have been taking turns picking foods for each other to eat while blindfolded. For the most part I think it is another way to sneak in more snacks. They have been pretty nice to each other doing this although Andy did give Eva some cauliflower crackers to try. They are the size and shape of Cheez-Its but they are definitely NOT Cheez-Its. Such an aftertaste! I don’t think we’ve falen quite far enough from decent snacks to choose those if not blindfolded.
It took a global pandemic but Eva has found that her personal workspace in the house was not cutting it with so much clutter. She has begun to take some really good steps toward having an organized and clean workspace. We have not even been harping on her about it.
During April vacation we started working on an escape puzzle. The puzzle was called The Curse of The Wolves Escape Puzzle from Ravensburger. We finished the puzzle today. I had been using my break at work to come downstairs and get a few more pieces added to the puzzle. It was slow going because the puzzle did not look exactly like box art. There were different elements to the image and you were supposed to decipher clues from it to find the solution. I think that the clues should have been much clearer. It was a fun challenge but the escape part wasn’t exactly what we thought it might be. I certainly enjoyed putting it together and am looking forward building our next puzzle.
