I'm here, following the Washington State Stay-Home order, while doing more than my part to not let those sugar cookies get stale.
Among other things, this whole shelter-in-place-because-life-as-we-know-it-has-become-the-twighlight-zone thing makes me absolutely ache for comfort food. Orange cinnamon rolls, homemade chili with cornbread, mac n'cheese....foods that have the incredible ability to make me feel like every little thing is gonna be alright.
You probably popped over to read this blog post for a bit of sunshiny reprieve from all that is going on, and if I have disappointed you today, I'm sincerely sorry. It's just that, while I do have oodles of cheery, inspiring, and interesting things to share with you from around my house, (I think they're interesting, anyway.) it feels so weird and wrong to not first acknowledge the big coronavirus in the room, so to speak.
I will interject here that there are some hilarious memes to be found online that provide some much needed comic relief through this nightmare, and it goes without saying that none of us will ever disregard the importance and value of a roll of toilet paper ever again. Along with this new enlightenment comes the unfolding reality that life as we knew it last Christmas is gone.
While I am a firm believer in faith over fear, it's becoming more frightening out there, day by day, and part of me keeps thinking this is a really long, bad dream. (I don't want to be in a situation where I have to learn how to make a protective face mask from a bandana and two hair scrunchies...) I'm worried for our doctors and nurses, our police and firefighters, and that guy that was putting produce out at the grocery store yesterday morning at seven A.M. when I arrived for "senior shopping hour".
It's consuming my mind and heart.
I'm not gonna get on my soapbox about how all of us that are not doing undeniably essential work need to keep our potentially virus carrying butts at home. (We all already know this, by the way.)
I feel more than a little...helpless.
In between cooking, and baking, and, God help me, eating, I am praying. Praying my heart out for all of us. That we find a vaccine or a cure, that people don't die from this, all alone. That we all learn to be kinder to one another, and to give each other more grace.
I promise you that tomorrow I'll be back with something far more chipper, and light, and hopefully I will maybe even make you chuckle, but please know that even as I share easy-breezy-my-home-is-my-haven posts, I am praying at a ninja level for this to pass for us all to realize what really matters in this life, and to love each other better.
