I know – a weekend post? What the what?
It’s 2:30 in the morning and I am up. It’s not because I can’t sleep, it’s because I’ve had plenty of sleep. It was a long, weird Friday and I was asleep on the sofa before 8. I woke up a little while ago and the snow is falling. It’s peaceful and I’m not tired, so I’m going to get some chores done and do some recording of the state of the situation.
The Coronavirus is happening now, and the world is different. There are so many opinions being swirled with facts and it is becoming exhausting. Just so we’re clear where my position is: I fell that 1) yes, we should be doing things to ‘flatten the curve’; 2) I don’t think Nebraska is in actual danger right now, but it is smart to think ahead, 3) I think stockpiling toilet paper is insane and those people should get their head examined, 4) I do have a bunch of food (people and cat), but only slightly more than we would have on hand normally. In a nutshell, I am ready in case we would need to stay home, but the likelihood of my actually having to stay home is low.
Several school districts have closed school around us for 1 – 3-ish weeks. Our church has suspended services for a while. Concordia has extended spring break and will have online classes for a while when they resume. Seward hasn’t closed school yet, but schools have online teaching plans in place for when they do.
Yesterday was our planned professional day. We began by learning about the crisis app that we will use to announce – LOUDLY – when there is an intruder in the building. Fun. Then we worked with our security guy to practice our intruder drills while he fired blanks in the hallway. Zoinks. Fun. Then we talked about what we’ll need to do should the health department tells us to close. We need to come up with on-line/take-home work for the children so that our hourly workers can continue to get paid. Fun. Then we had our regularly scheduled professional development and work time. Fun.
Four of our staff are pregnant, and they are understandably on edge during this time. The day ended with some tears for some, and a sense of “God’s got this, but man, this is weird” for the rest of us. I bet I wasn’t the only one to conk out early.
Anyway, I’m going to load the dishwasher and clean up a little. I’ll catch up with you all later.
Prayers and soap.