Our governor issued a stay-at-home order for the whole state effective Monday afternoon. I’m not sure why it wasn’t effective Friday afternoon. I guess you’ve got to give the virus a little more time to get around. Anyway, I don’t think it’s going to affect us all that much. We’ve been staying at home for about 10 days already, but hopefully the people who’ve been going about their normal routines will cut it out now.

Our daily routine these days looks something like this:

Rockford gets up about the same time he used to. He showers and gets dressed, then heads to the dining room table or the sun room to start his work day.

I wake up around 7:30 or 8 or 8:30 and very slowly get out of bed, shower and get dressed. There’s a lot of “slowly” in that equation.

Pete is generally up around 8. He plays video games until family meeting.

Someone waked Poppy up around 9.

At 9:30, we gather at the dining room table for Family Meeting. The kids look at all their school assignments for the day, and Rockford tells us what time he’ll be available for lunch.

The kids do their schoolwork, Rockford does his work-work, and I …

We come back to the dining room table for lunch sometime between noon and 1, depending on Rockford’s schedule. It’s been nice having lunch together.

Once the kids are done with their schoolwork for the day, they play video games or watch TV. I’d like to say they do wildly constructive things, but that would not be accurate.

I still haven’t given my own day any structure, really. I’m reading, doing laundry, playing Scrabble with my dad on Facebook and making food. And spending too much time on social media. Maybe I’ll try to do something about that next week.I finished Emily St. John Mandel’s new book “The Glass Hotel” this afternoon. It was fine, but I didn’t love it as much as her “Station Eleven.” I usually read it once every few years, but seeing as it’s about people living in a post-pandemic landscape I’ll probably not revisit it soon.