COVID blog - Day 2 - Rocks Socks

It’s Sunday - no church of course.  Strange to think that we went just last Sunday.  The timeline of this was so fast.  Kelly and I had discussed the potential for things to shut down, but last Wednesday it felt like someone hit the fast forward button.  Like all those doors shutting on Get Smart - bang bang bang.  NBA season over, March Madness cancelled, Tom Hanks tests positive… the dominos were falling fast.  As soon as the NBA shut down I knew this was going be a major shift in life-as-usual.  And when the NCAA -- an organization that has proven time and time again that they care more about money than caring for people -- cancels March Madness (which made them almost a billion dollars last year), you know you’re dealing with a major disruption.

As an aside, I know my focus on sports is largely frivolous -- especially in light of a global pandemic -- I really do get it.  Sports are comparatively not important.  I agree.  But they also serve as a bit of a marker for me, and frankly March Madness is a truly special time for me and my family.  It’s not more important than health… but to be honest, where the news hit me first was basketball.  I think that’s weird, and has the potential to be MUCH more weird as more people get sick.  Sometimes I seem to process the news differently by the hour.  But also part of the point of this is to allow me to get some of that “processing” out.  And for better or worse, I’m telling you that cancelling basketball for the rest of the year hit me.  I’m not going to pretend it doesn’t matter.  It mattered.  But I recognized at the time (and want to re-emphasize now) that I know it’s lower on the tiers of things I ought to worry/care about. 

I’m not sure to what extent this will turn into a parenting blog… if it does, it won’t be one of those that you want to model or take ideas from.  Case in point: today the twins made up a game called “rock socks” -- it’s what it sounds like.  They put a bunch of rocks in their socks.  While they were still wearing them.  Then they took them off so they could fill them with more rocks.  Then they ran around barefoot swinging socks full of rocks.  It was like 40 degrees out.  On several levels, this was inadvisable.  

why

it's gotta be cold. Twin1 is in a winter coat.

it's a lot of rocks.

Anyway, we almost made it two days before we turned our clothes into weapons.