Sunday, April 5, 2020

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2005. This was at Mattie's third birthday party. We had Mattie's first three parties at home and then by his fourth birthday, we started having parties somewhere else. For Mattie's third birthday we had a Blue's Clues themed party, since Mattie was in love with that TV show. We even had a student from the university come over and perform magic tricks. Tricks which included his pet rabbit. It was a very fun and memorable day for Mattie and us. 


Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus numbers from Johns Hopkins. 

• number of people diagnosed with the virus: 335,524
• number of people who died from the virus: 9,458

Last week I found out that a childhood friend of mine who lives in NY, lost her husband to the Coronavirus. If that wasn't bad enough, yesterday, I found out that my friend has been diagnosed with the virus and is hospitalized. Not that the virus wasn't real to me, but now it is even more personal. 

To keep our sanity, we walk each day. Normally we have Sunny in tow, but since he tore his ACL, he truly is unable to walk with us. So we first walk him outside, then settle him back at home, and then return out to walk. Today we walked four miles around the National Mall. We are very lucky to have access to all this wide open green space. Certainly we see people walking around, but with these big open spaces, we can easily social distance. 

We walked passed the Capitol and the Washington Monument. It was a lovely spring day and people were walking, biking, and jogging. It almost looked normal! Well emphasis on almost, as DC is NEVER this empty!

I love those hot pink trees. They are red bud trees. Which I never saw or even heard of before living in DC. These trees stand in front of the Natural History Museum. A favorite of Mattie's.