#79, "Why is the coronavirus so popular?"
I put a bag of Cadbury mini eggs in my dresser drawer and I eat one every time I go upstairs (Kevin the secret is out).
I asked Alice this morning what she wanted to do today. In retrospect this was an obviously dumb question because what was I expecting her to say? “I’ll entertain Hugh in my room for awhile while you look at your phone, then we’ll nap while you bake.” She said, “I want to go to the trampoline place.” (That would be Launch Watertown, “MA’s premier trampoline park.” It is currently closed due to “an abundance of caution” — probably an entirely appropriate amount of caution, honestly! — and is “confident that this disruption will be temporary,” which makes one of us.) “It’s closed,” I said. “Everything is closed.” She teared up and yelled “WHY IS THE CORONAVIRUS SO POPULAR?” We went out and walked all morning in the clear cold. I said “Where should we go?” and Hugh, who had not been in the room for the discussion with his sister, said, “The trampoline place!”
“I meant like…should we go left or right?”
Later in the day he said cheerily “I really liked my school” and my heart broke a little.
We made chocolate chip cookie brittle from Midwest Made. It’s similar to Dolly’s Crisp Toffee Bars but with white sugar instead of brown. We might make those another day, like, oh, tomorrow.
One of Eileen’s best sleeping times is the morning like 6:30 to 9 AM, which was previously not very useful to us since we had to get up and get the kids ready for school then. Now we can sleep in with her a little bit. Alice and Hugh left out coins for “the leprechaun.” (Alice: “Leprechauns love money.”) I told her “he” might replace them with candy. (Think of all the time-consuming traditions we’re creating during this period that we’ll have to do every damn year from now on.) The leprechaun, or someone, did replace the coins with little hard candies and also a note that said in wavy writing “Thank you for the money. Be careful with the hard candy.” Because I plan to still be in bed when they’re eating it.