Covid 19

Hi All.....well, how is everyone managing with the situation the world is in right now?  It doesn't seem like there is an end in sight which has started making me feel differently.  I have always been a calm person....I never over react to these kinds of things.  My mothers illness shook my family to the core but we all pulled ourselves up and together got through it (with quiet tears shed in private...usually in the shower every night)  We survived the flood of 2013 and I stayed calm, with a good attitude and did what needed to be done. (it all seemed to hit me on the one year anniversary)  My cancer diagnosis was handled with the attitude "okay, what do we do next?" and we got through that okay.  And now the pandemic because of the corona virus.  I am sitting here feeling like I just want to cry.  This should be a dream come true for me....I LOVE being at home never having to leave for anything but groceries but hearing this might continue on for months.....well that changes the way I am feeling and my stomach is starting to be in knots...and I feel like crying.  Hubby is not working and I think that is my biggest fear.  We survived last summer when he was out of work and struggling to find anything...he got a few things here and there to sustain us and then got on with the company he had worked with before and was steady until a couple of weeks ago when the job ended.  Now he is back to bidding on projects again but the first one, the company he was bidding through didn't get the job.  Now onto projects 2 and 3.  He has yet to be successful being the winning bidder around here.......Son2 was going to college which is now shut down.  He has no work to go back to so will stay with us "until Mom kicks me out" (he said to his sister).  It's fine having him here really....it's just another change to our normal.  I should be happy too because I have a 'room' full of sewing/quilting supplies that I would never work through even if this pandemic lasted 40 years except that it being in the dark basement (yes I have great lighting but no sunshine) makes me not want to go there if it is sunny outside because I NEED the sunshine right now....more than ever!  So I have been doing alot of hand stitching BUT now my wrist/thumb is acting up.  So far I can still manage so that is good.  Hubby has spent the weekend with a couple of friends up north skidooing....I know, not social distancing but I'm sure they weren't in each others faces and were spending time outside in the fresh air.  It's good for him.  He will be home today as tomorrow he has a walk-thru at one of these jobs he wants to bid on.  Son2 has gone to get more paint as he is working on his old quad in the garage.  On Friday Daughter1 and her crew came out to visit so I got some baby Brody cuddles and squeezes from Lyla....I know, maybe that is breaking the rules but be damned if I will avoid my family during this unless I was sick in any way!

  

His Uncle got to meet him for the first time too.  

Daughter1 sent me this the other day.  He hates his baths!!!!!!!!

I finished my Spring stitchery just in time.  

Working on another challenge from my favourite Facebook group Quilts By Cheri- Friendship Group.  One of the moderators posted another challenge Friday.  My project is further along now but I won't post a picture until at least the top is finished.  My helper was NOT helpful!!  LOL

It was National Quilting Day yesterday so at least I did something.  I have friends who hung quilts on their deck rails yesterday...to cheer people up and celebrate the day.  No one would see them here.  

I really want winter to be over, spring and warm weather to arrive (and stay), green grass to come out and my deck furniture back out!  😊  Too much to ask for???  I want to world to return to normal with some good changes that are happening during all of this, the economy to boom (it will have to with all the added debt our country/provinces now have) and I hope it happens soon.  I can foresee divorces and suicides.  I can foresee manic behaviour and desperation in people who have been isolated too long or have had to do without for too long or who are financially strained.  I can foresee crime rates increasing.....and it all scares the hell out of me.  Praying it does not get to those levels and I will keep praying. 🙏  There has to be an end to this before it gets even worse.  

So thank you to the nurses and doctors 😷 who are exposed to the unknown.  Thankful for the grocery store clerks who keep working hard to fill shelves and put up with angry people daily.  Thankful for the truck drivers who deliver the food to the stores.  🚚 Thankful for the postal workers and truck drivers who still deliver the mail and any goodies one might be ordering while bored at home. 😜 (not me....really!) I will hate to think of what would happen if these stores closed.....and people couldn't get food and necessities.  Apparently now they are fining people who go out....which people I don't know!  Scary stuff.

I have continued with journal entries this year in a journal my friend Kim had got me.  I think I only missed 4 days all of last year but this year I am focused on what I am grateful for.  I hope everyone can focus on that....at least one thing daily that they are thankful for in this crazy, upside down world.  I am trying.......and I hope I can get through this feeling of wanting to just sit and cry.

Oh one more thing added to this lonnnnnnng post!  I am changing the name of the blog to Ladybugs and Bumblebees (for now)  It was the name of my dayhome and I am continuing to get strange followers who all have something to do with sex in their descriptions.  I don't think they would be interested in or think Ladybugs and Bumblebees has anything to do with sex, do you? Fingers crossed it stops them from wanting to follow me.  🤞