The Family that Quarantines Together, Goes Crazy Together!

I honestly feel like I've been cooped up in this house for months, yet it's only been a couple of weeks. On the 7th, I went down to Nacogdoches to pick up Ross from college for his Spring Break (or so we thought), and we made plans for the upcoming week to spend time together. THEN everything started to get real exciting. Thus, ending our Spring Break "fun" and starting our family quarantine. My 20 year old son is now looking more like Grizzly Adams and is now having to finish his semester online here at home. Our public school system here has still not made up it's mind as to when the doors will open back up, but luckily for my other kids, they will be homeschooled anyways. In the meantime, my two cats give me guilt trips on the daily like they're being held hostage by this pandemic wave hitting the world around us and I tried to tell them that it does, in fact, affect animals as well, but they just stare at me in disbelief. So we started opening the bedroom window, just enough for their little fat bodies to get through and go outside and get back in. Max goes out bravely, unafraid of anything, but Yuuki just sticks her head out, anxiously, like she knows there is sickness waiting for her. I laugh at both cats, because I can relate to both of them right now. To help with the cabin fever, we get out when we need things. We've also bought a few new games. I even have a new 2000 piece puzzle to start putting together thanks to my love. He knew I used to love putting them together. And I did. A long time ago with my dad. And this time of solace that we have so much of right now can also seem like a curse if you deal with any sort of depression or grief as I do, but maybe God is also calling us out to help finally work through some of those tough spots in our hearts. I definitely don't have the answers. I wish I did in times like this. All three of my amazing kids inherited my anxiety and the harder things get like they are now, the harder it is for them to understand and it just makes it worse on their anxieties and sleep and eating and you name it. I don't always have the words to offer. Especially as they get older. I'm just a mom. A mom that has her own anxieties and fears about this world. A mom, who, after watching her own dad pass away at such an early age, has feared death her whole life. A mom, that has already had to look death in the eye and literally fight for her life more than once thanks to being a very brittle type 1 diabetic. BUT, this mama has also learned that even though death is inevitable and anxiety will sneak up on you when you least expect it, also knows there is a much greater and higher force to be reckoned with and all you or I need to do is call upon His name and a calm will come over us like we never imagined. And just like that song tells us about, that fear that stops us? The fear that makes us feel frozen? That fear IS a liar. Call it for what it really is. That, my friend, is what I tell myself. What I remind myself every single day.  OH and I'm also a mom that is turning 44 in exactly ONE week. During a nationwide..or...worldwide quarantine. Then, a week later, my baby bear turns 14. GAH. I can't even. How do you celebrate your kiddo's birthday at home? Please comment any creative ideas!