It’s crazy how fast the world can change. One day you are planning a musical number with the youth of your ward and the next day the church issues a statement saying all meetings worldwide are cancelled.

Then our state closed all public schools and non-essential businesses.

And for us, nothing in our life really changed, except we are doing church at home.

We already limit the trips we make to town for shopping. It’s just so far. We have plenty of food in our pantry and miraculously made a trip to Costco the week before everything changed and bought three mega packages of toilet paper. It’s the only TP we use and so I buy enough to get us through until our next Coscto trip, usually once every three months or so.

Social distancing? We have that down.

Since we homeschool and have a good routine we weren’t affected by the school closures. I do feel for parents trying to figure out how to be substitute teachers for all their kids. I received quite a few messages from friends who were suddenly thrown into something they hadn’t planned on but are doing their best to make it a good experience for their family.

Farmers are always working. They are the hidden heroes behind the food you buy at the grocery store. Rain or shine, pandemic or not, we work.

I realize we are very lucky. Our kids know what is going on but for them life is the same. Stable.

Only there have been some changes. I’m the only one who goes to town now to do the shopping. There are no violin or piano lessons. Abby came home early from college to finish it online at home. Marie arrived yesterday for a month before going back. Joseph stays home all day on Sunday!

We have found ways to serve others already. Diapers leftover from Henry given to a mother of twin daughters who couldn’t find any in the stores. Buying rice and flour for family in another town because they couldn’t find any.

And sewing masks for people in the community because even though we are in a very rural area there are 14 confirmed cases of Covid-19. Our county health officer has recommended everyone wear masks while out and about. A community group called Mucca Mask Makers has been created to sew masks for first responders, home health nurses, grocery store employees, and others. I’ve sewn a total of 53 masks in the past week, 35 on Tuesday alone.

One funny thing, if your hands are dry and cracked from all the hand washing and sanitizing put some Corona on it! Not even kidding. This stuff works wonders.