More Memes for Coping

Strange Night

          It’s rare that Roland will go to bed before I do.  It was quite the opposite when we first married, but for some reason he feels impelled to stay up and watch TV even though we have the capability of recording his programs.

Sometimes I will hear him come in, but not always.  I am usually fast asleep before 10:00 although last night I was in bed playing on the kindle that Caroline had given me.  After he got in bed, I set the kindle aside.  I don’t even know what time it was.

Earlier this morning Roland had evidently hit the remote button which caused his legs to rise in the air.  He doesn’t like that setting, but could not find the remote to undo it.  So we get up.  1:30 a.m.  Before he found it, I offered to trade him sides as I knew where the remote for my side of the bed was. But he eventually found it.

         

          Amazingly he was hot and asked if I could turn down the heat (or off as I don’t believe it had come on) and by that time I knew I would not be going back to sleep.  I grabbed the kindle and played on it for about an hour and a half and then returned to bed. 

          Just after I had settled myself in, I heard Jenna get up.  3:00 a.m.  That’s her usual wake-up time.  She’s not like most teenagers.  If the girl sleep past 6:00, she is sleeping in.  She has ALWAYS been an early riser!

          Roland has programmed Jenna’s Echo to go off at 5:15 and will say, “Alexa, Stop” each morning and she does.  Only this morning he had to say it twice.  I tried to ignore the sounds and remain asleep.  I think I slept for another 30 minutes before I got up.

          Will be reading today.  The second book of the “Land of Stories” series. 

The last two or three chapters have felt surreal as the twins have been put in quarantine and after making it to the land of stories hear no sounds.  The world is too quiet.  I have experienced some of that myself.  Except instead of corona virus there are vines and thorns. Interesting read. 

I also predict that I will be napping.  Meanwhile Jenna has made another headband.  She use large pink buttons.  She misses the yellow ones. 

Her hair is getting quite long.

Rescue Mission Gone Awry

Two weeks ago Jenna made this mask and headband

  

I thought it clever that my little girl (well, maybe not so little) had thought to put buttons on her headband so that the elastic from the mask would be around the buttons and not so much pressure on her ears.

After our walk around the neighborhood yesterday, she discovered that her headband had fallen out of her pocket.  I told her we could go back and search for it – though we weren’t even certain where it had been lost.  She did not want to bother with retracing our footsteps yesterday, and so we went out in search for it today.  She spotted it on the road.  It had obviously been run over.  Several times perhaps.

How devastating.

A Walk Through the Rain

Roland doesn't like to walk outdoors when it only looks like it's going to rain.  Walking in a drizzle is horrible.  And an actual downpour makes him very uncomfortable.  He wants to walk either in the sun or in the dark.  Jenna and I like the rain.  Here are some pictures from yesterday's walk.

The Number 40

“Forty – A Period of Testing

The number forty is mentioned 157 times in Scripture. The number forty symbolizes a period of testing, trial or probation.” – Scriptures Revealed

The article then goes on to remind us that Moses was in the desert for 40 years.  He had gone to Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights.  He was still there receiving God’s law while the children of Isreal lost their faith and built a golden calf.

For 40 days and 40 nights the Ark floated around in the water before there was sign of land.

For 40 days Jesus fasted before his ministry began. This site has a whole list of the symbolisms of the number 40. More than Roland had mentioned when he asked me if I thought this COVID thing would last only 40 days. 

It has now been 40 days since the students spent their final day for this school year.  It’s been 42 since the church announced no more meetings.  And not everybody was quarantined on the same day.  When would the “40” have started if his method is correct?  Or perhaps we are looking at 40 weeks?  40 months?  We may have enough food supply for 40 weeks but definitely not 40 months.  Our house is not big enough to store 40 months worth of food.

I don’t know that 40 is a symbolic number for what is taking place now.  But it is interesting to think about.   

Today's Walk Around the 'Hood

Jenna and I went for a walk today.  Here are some of the sights we saw and pictures that she took.

Love the blue

Jenna has always posed with fire hydrants
since she was small.  Keeping up the tradition.

she took this one from our backyard

Every Shade of Purple

          We finally finished the Sugar Spigot American puzzle. 

 Roland glued it so that we can hang it in our game room (should we ever get one built) and we started a new puzzle  that is over 50% purple – granted different shades.  Crayola might lable them as periwinkle, orchid, lilac, heliotrope, plum, etc. for there are many shades.

  

         There are only 750 pieces as opposed to the thousand of the last two puzzles, but we can already tell that it will work up a lot quicker.

I think my brother would enjoy this puzzle. It is the Mont Saint Michel castle in France. 

  

He’s had a thing for France since he was in elementary school (I would guess) and he loves the color purple – surely there are a few puzzle pieces that would match his preferred shade.