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Lucky #13

Happy Birthday, Sarah - officially a teenager. I feel bad for her to be having such a milestone birthday in the midst of all this crazy, but she is unphased. In fact, I think she's excited to not have to go to school on her birthday. She's making lemonade out of life's lemons for sure.

Covid-19

So much has changed since I last posted. We were aware that China was having a coronavirus epidemic late last year into 2020, but on March 14 the United States went mad. Only hindsight will reveal what really happened, but we have essentially been "locked down," or quarantined in our homes since. For my part, we've been limiting how much we go out, severely limiting to be more precise. When we do need to go out for essentials, I do online pick-up minimizing contact with the outside world. Aside from that, it's really business as usual. MSA, my employer, is considered an essential business since we supply personal protective equipment to first responders, and in a much more limited way, to hospitals. Office staff is mandatory work-from-home, which I was already doing two times a week. The plants are fully operational. Sal is off school. Steubenville shut down for a month. He's been working on papers to finish up his last class for his masters degree. At th...

Kindergarten!

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Okay, maybe not quite yet, but Seth is  registered. He'll need to go to a screening in May so they can place him in the appropriate class. I will also owe the school an updated immunization/physical form and a dental form. Other than that, he's all set. Here we go!