Well it’s a hell of a time to pick up blogging again! Day 5 of the “Stay-at-home” order from the Governor. It’s the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the world. We have been ordered to stay home unless we have been designated as “essential” workers, or to get groceries or go to the pharmacy.

Alright, what’s happened since the last time I wrote? Last time I wrote, it was July, oh the sun was warm and I was super stressed out about my upcoming wedding. We got married in September, it was a great day everything was how I wanted it with everyone there we cared about. It down poured rain and stormed while we were at the salon. But by the time we got to the venue it was sunny and sticky hot for pictures. During our ceremony it was cloudy and thundering and it was perfect! Everything was so green and we got to say our vows outdoors. I always wanted an outdoor ceremony. We went on our honeymoon to Las Vegas which was super fun! Not a typical honeymoon destination but we followed the recommendation of my sister’s coworker to stay at Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa outside of town near Red Rock National Park. It was awesome. I would hands down go there again. So many good restaurants, clean, nice pool, great rooms, nice casino, close to Red Rocks, and Uber & Lyft both service there. We spent a lot of time at the pool, ate good food, hiked at Red Rocks, went into Las Vegas for a Golden Nights hockey game, ate a fancy dinner at Skyfall lounge for my birthday and visited The Mob Museum! Such a great trip.

About a month before we got married, we decided to build a new house in a new sub! It was so fun picking out all the colors and flooring. Our sales rep made a comment to us that we were so calm! Yeah this is way more fun than planning a wedding! ha! Fast forward to January, we put our house up for sale and had 20 showings and 4 offers within 3 days. We sold our house and got to live there for another month before handing over the keys to the buyer. Our new house would be finished end of March.

The coronavirus started hitting our lives beginning of March. We made it to the Letterkenny live show for Joe’s birthday just before it got bad. March 13th my work closed at noon and we haven’t been back since. Joe’s birthday lunch on March 15th was just us in Lumen downtown Detroit. After that restaurants were ordered to close dine-in and could only carry-out or deliver. On March 18th the movers came and moved our stuff into storage. We got the news from the builder that we may not be able to move in to our new house. Fearful that the township would close and not do any inspections. On March 20th we left the keys at the house for the buyers because “social distancing”. We planned to stay with my sister for a week until we closed on our new house and got the keys to move in. On March 23rd the Governor ordered “stay-at-home” and all “non-essential to life” businesses have to close. Including builders and construction. All of the cities and townships closed. We were days away from our new house being finished and inspected. Today, we are living out of suitcases at my sister’s house and working from “home” at her kitchen table. With nowhere else to live. I cannot express into words how much it means that my sister is letting us live at her house. We don’t know what we would do if we didn’t.