Bailey Family

 I never did get around to that new year's post, did I? I planned to sum up 2020, give a turn-of-the year update, and include holiday pictures. Seeing as how it's a month past Christmas now, and I'm just getting around to that, let me summarize and then skip to January's happenings! I think the "Bailey update 2020" that we put in some of the Christmas cards summarizes 2020 pretty well: We felt really blessed that despite many problems that the pandemic brought on for so many families, we had constant steady income from Rob's job and that he was able to work from home remotely. (We have rearranged several times to find the best place for him to work, but we have all adjusted to his working from home. Because much of his church work is done remotely also, we jokingly call the truck "The Bishop's Office" because of times when he needed to make a private phone call and couldn't find a quiet place in the house. Hopefully, he can continue worki...

It has been over a month since I posted! That's too long! After our beach trip, we went into quarantine, and it was a good thing, because as it turned out we did have Covid-19. We only found out because I had a cold for 2 days and got tested. That was really the only sickness we had. (A few other kids had sniffles that same week; Gideon had a fever for 2 hours the weekend we got home.) The rest of my extended family got it a little worse, but all have recovered. Because we had been isolated almost 2 weeks when my cold symptoms showed up, and then we had to quarantine for at least 10 days for me, followed by 14 days in case someone got it from me at the very end, we have been in isolation/quarantine for about 6 weeks. (Thank goodness for stores with curbside pickup and Amazon delivery!) We decided to go ahead and start homeschool the first week of August. (The other kids' school start date was pushed to September - another reason to go ahead and start. I'm not waiting that l...