March started out pretty normal. I was busy as every with work. In fact, I was supposed to post my best month in business history. We had our Women's Day for High Fitness, we celebrated March birthdays with the Thomas fam, parent teacher conference and little Wyatt was born. Pretty normal life. I thought one particular week was going to be crappy because of Daylight Savings and it totally was but for even worse reasons. That was the last week of work I had and then Governor Herbert issued a Stay Home Stay Safe order because of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Yep, a pandemic. Church closed. No High Fitness. No soccer or school for Brynlee. No work which meant I wasn't getting paid. It was rough and that's an understatement. School ended up being online. The soccer season was basically cancelled. AND THEN.... There was a freaking 5.7 Earthquake. I had been sleeping downstairs on the couch because I had a cough from being sick a few weeks before and I didn't want to keep Ty up. Ty had left for work alreayd and the house started shaking (Toby didn't even make a peep as he was sleeping on top of me) and that's the fastest I had taken the stairs in my life to get to Brynlee. She was sitting up in her bed, eyes wide and the shaking had stopped by the time I got up to her room. I said, "Yep, that's exactly what you think it is." Sooo crazy! There were several aftershocks. Some of them we felt, some we didn't. Ty was at work and they all got under their desks and then evacuated. Earthquakes unsettled him big time so he decided to come home that day. It was Thursday March 19. It was such a weird day.
I was holding up pretty well for my family's sake. Brynlee is a worrier and Ty HATES earthquakes so he was on edge for a good long while (I'm talking all month). Brynlee and I did lots of face masks, she kept busy with crafts.
We got to meet Wyatt and he is so tiny! He was born on the 12th.
Ty and I went to Kneader's one day and Brynlee was hanging out with Kam. We watched through the window of Kneader's as these three were walking down the street lol. They had no idea.
You could tell we were bored because I finally caved and put pink in Brynlee's hair. She was so stinkin' excited about it and I must have lost my mind.
Other things that kept us busy. Sewing. I seriously got all the mending done. Brynlee tried to play around on the sewing machine but she got too frustrated and gave up. Playing jokes about the milk going bad. Making vinegar hardened/jelly eggs, online school. Brynlee was really good about school. She would get up and start working and I didn't even really need to ask her. I made homemade cinnamon rolls from scratch too.
I was so completely crushed when I found out I wouldn't be going to Arizona for a business conference I had signed up for. They decided to make it virtual and I just cried. I really wanted to get out of town, focus on me and my business and meet some new friends. The Mama Spring Break conference ended up being fabulous and helped me change some things for the better. I learned a lot those two days sitting in front of my computer and meeting people over Zoom. It wasn't the same, by far, but it was still beneficial and I'm glad I did it.
This is about when I had had it. Monday the 30th I woke up and Toby was in Brynlee's bed. I watched him try to get up and fall back down again. I had High Fitness so I went to class and when I got back he wasn't even trying to move. So I laid with him for a couple hours in my bed and when he tried to get up again and fell down I decided to take him to the Vet. The day before we had gone on a decent sized walk and given him a steak bone to chew on. Brynlee said he had jumped up on her bed the night before and kind of missed so he had to claw his way up instead of falling down. Between all these things we weren't sure what was wrong with him. I tried to check everything I could but just couldn't find anything. Once I got to the Vet he did an xRay and an exam. There wasn't nothing stuck in his throat and they couldn't see anything broken. The Vet could tell Toby was having some pain in his neck though and he decided he probably hurt a muscle in his neck. He prescribed a pain pill, muscle relaxer and tylenol basically. I felt like I was turning my dog into a junkie because I was giving medicine every 3 hours and sometimes several at a time and it lasted for 2 weeks. My heart broke for my pup. We were told to not let him jump or run.... yeah right! How do you keep a dog from running and jumping? Beats me. We got him some wet dog food and he loved that. But I had to learn how to shove a pill down his throat, not cool. He eventually got better and seemed fine a few days later but I couldn't take it anymore.
I had a melt down. I was trying to be strong for Ty and his anxiety over the earthquake and aftershocks. I was trying to be positive for Brynlee that couldn't go to school and see her friends. Everything in my life changed. No massage, no church, no High. Ty at least still got to work from home and Brynlee at least got to still do school over Zoom. Eventually, Crystal and I figured out how to Zoom our High Fitness classes which brought some sense of normalcy back to my life but it felt like it was all ripped away from me. It was all gone in a matter of a day. How were we going to do this? How long is this going to last? We're supposed to stay home to slow the spread so the hospitals don't become overwhelmed. When church closes you know it's a big deal. I tried to get Ty to administer the sacrament for us but he said you have to have permission from the Bishop. In the blink of an eye, everything changed and I, admittedly, did not roll with the punches very well.
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