covid-19 stay-home 5th week
4 weeks passed since stay-home order took a legal effect in Sacramento, CA. The daycare our kids go to, Merryhill School, actually strove to remain open after the non legal stay-home directive was initially placed in the area, which we appreciated. But it was and is totally reasonable to close the school at that moment with the surging volume of potential threat to our immediate society as well as to the entire world. We live in such a crazy moment. These 4 weeks have been pretty routine. I should say that is kind of a success, as some child development experts say maintaining routine structure is extremely helpful for kids' mental health so we aimed to establish the set schedule, 7 days a week. Biggest question initially was apparently who are going to watch kids while both the parents work. My wife m is obviously a first-order essential worker as a surgery trainee and I'm a work-from-home veteran (besides that, part of my employer's work is essential too as some of ou