At 7am, as we were rushing to get out the door to catch our bus to school, I briefly checked my messages. Both of the WhatsApp groups for the kids' classes were going crazy with texts. The principal was urgently asking all parents to keep their kids home from school. What? The press conference the day before had announced schools closing the following Wednesday due to the virus. Why all of a sudden now? Apparently with all of the colds and flu going around, the teachers really would have no way to know whether or not kids had the virus, and so they were asking parents to simply keep all kids at home from now on. And thus it began. The Tuesday prior had brought the first restrictions to Austria, restricting indoor events to 100 and outdoor events to 500, which meant that our church couldn't continue meeting. But that was just the beginning.
Pictures from our first two weeks of quarantine:
Day 1 of School-from-Home, Friday, March 13th, 2020
Gym class via fun youtube videos
School work outside on a nice day
Amazing weather one afternoon. We are SOOO thankful for our own outdoor space.
Eva's stamping project
This was how I destressed during morning school
Our back patio which we hardly ever used became an important play-space while we had to keep the kids away from the neighborhood kids. The required distancing of 1-2 Meters is really difficult for kids to remember!
Home haircuts!
Church via Live-Stream
We tuned in to many press conferences to keep informed of what was coming next.
My essential minutes of solitude and silence in the morning before the kids awake. They are my only moments of quiet!
Gregory and I try to spend some one-on-one time which each kid most evenings. Eva and I may have snuck leftover cookie dough once or twice. Shhhhh
Tuning in for a storybook time with famous Austrians
One of the perks from school-at-home: doing school work in a fort
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