2020: June

 Pennsylvania counties are going from yellow to green.  

Joined Edgewood pool. 

Philip lost his first tooth. 

 Clare turned 19. 

I made her a Whoopie Pie pyramid instead of a birthday cake.

That map of Pennsylvania on the wall was Andy's surprise birthday present to me.

 Andy bought me a recumbent bike/elliptical machine so I could get moving because I ache everywhere, all the time.  We gave him a statue of the Blessed Mother and grotto for Father's Day. We gave it to him a week early because I was convinced that Father's Day was the 14th instead of the 21st.

 We incubated some of Sarah's chickens' eggs and hatched six chicks the last weekend of the month.  They are, in birth order, Valerie (Regina), Fluffy (Philip), Noodles(Emily), Oliver (Noelle), Champion (Mom), and Smokey (Natalie).

Happy 19th Clare

In lieu of a birthday cake and because she is obsessed with whoopie pies, we made a whoopie pie pyramid.

In addition to the nose ring, she got herself this:

2020: May

May:  Cold and rainy spring. Andy spent most of April and the first week of May trying to run a gas line to replace our broken electric range with a LP gas range because I did THIS in October.  

He also spent most of the first week of May being especially kind and solicitous of me, and asking what he could do to make my life better.  I think he knew something was up.

 On Friday, May 8, after having chest and arm pain all week, Andy went to the emergency room.  They sent him home after not finding any evidence of a heart attack.  After midnight, being unable to get comfortable, we went back to the main hospital.  He stayed the night, and after a stress test on Saturday morning, May 9, he experienced a heart attack.  They found two blockages and inserted two stents.  He spent most of that week in the hospital, and came home with several new prescriptions.

2020: April

Still on lockdown.  Holy Week was surreal.  We had our traditional Christian Seder on Holy Thursday.  

Holy Saturday we colored eggs.  Philip was moody and didn't want to participate.  Andy did a reading for the Vigil to an empty church.  

We attended a private Mass on Easter Sunday, just as we had done during the entire lockdown.  I sewed about 60 masks for Novipax employees.  Masks are required when shopping.  Scott got a dog, a female 6-month-old shepherd mix named Harper.  

2020: March

March:  (the 25th, specifically) The state of Pennsylvania waived all requirements for end-of-year evaluations and reporting for homeschoolers.  Our homeschool year ended abruptly on that day, although I didn't tell the kids for another month.    

Andy and I replaced the warped dining room floor over 2 days on the last weekend of the month.