The New Normal Is Not Normal: Trying To Re-Establish Family Rhythms #039

We are working on the rhythms of our family life that have been displaced by the challenges of COVID living--home schooling, working from home, lack of structure, etc.
At first this season of shelter-in-place was novel and a bit of a relief: more time at home, fewer activities. However, now that we are seven weeks in it has proven to be difficult. Over the past week we have begun to mourn that this is hard and that life isn't necessarily going back to the way it was anytime soon.
Many families are in the middle of embracing the new normal (which isn't that normal) and finding ways to move forward in this unique time. We've realized many of our normal rhythms were disrupted, so we are trying to reinstate a little quality structure to ground our family and offer our family connection and hope.
Plus, this episode includes a laundry list of idiotic things about David: he can't pronounce "colloquialism," he doesn't know how to say "hello" when walking past someone, and he just realized something about Will Smith's kids' names. Oh, and Rachael sings two songs.
The Stat of the Week is about how long-winded, wordy, garrulous and turgid (thank you, Thesaurus!) some food bloggers can be. How many words can you fit into a cookie recipe before you actually get to the ingredient measurements and baking steps? Apparently, the answer is somewhere between 829 and 1,023 words (unless you are Betty Crocker -- she can do it only 50).
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