So, it has been a sluggish few months, hasn’t it? Life here is a little stressful. But most of my family are essential workers. So they go to work, I’m here on my own most of the day. You’d think I’d be all creative. I thought I’d be all creative and I would get all the things done but that is not the case.

The first spring I’ve had when all the busy has been wiped off the calendar and I can’t seem to find any mojo. But from what I’ve been reading here and there, that has become part of the new normal. No spring cleaning happening here. Almost no point when no one is coming over to come inside the house except the family.

I did refinish a few pieces of furniture. I have more to do and the tree in the back has decided to all out dump all its bits of flowers and little helicopters all over everything every day. Then all that mess gets tracked inside and makes me want to scream at the tree because that’s interacting with something during the day besides the dogs and the cats.

I had a few weeks off watching grandkids. I just started watching 2 again this week. We will see when I gain the third again on Tuesdays.

My daughter that’s a senior in high school is still struggling with school work. Our district really pulled back on expectations. Her big issue is she doesn’t want to do any of it. If she doesn’t do any of the work, she misses out on some college credits and the grades she had before she left school are the ones she’ll keep and a few of them weren’t great. So here’s hoping I can motivate that kid to get things done. This has really sucked for her so much.

We also haven’t rescheduled our daughter’s wedding celebration. I’m hoping she’ll still fit in her wedding dress whenever we manage to plan it. Ha!

I’m working on Enduring the Journey: Dale’s Tale. It has been slow. I’ve been so distracted with Coronavirus everything. Fortunately where I am, it is calming down and it actually wasn’t very widespread. We have testing in place now for the virus and antibodies. So there’s far more good news right now than bad. This whole fed my anxiety in the worst way. I stay home as much as possible while everyone goes to work and comes home. The other thing that’s hard is writing an apocalyptic tale when the world is imitating art. I really struggled for a bit when conversations my characters were having were conversations couples could have today.

I am working. Slowly still but it won’t take so long to get this next book out but I didn’t manage to tackle it in April like I hoped. I’m aiming for May.

So I hope everyone is healthy and safe wherever you are.