Quarantine Life

Where have we been?!?

Well. After a much needed getaway to the mountains in the beginning of September, we went nearly straight back on duty to help cover at Pine house for a few days.  We got off at Pine and I left for a quick trip to Illinois for a few days with the kids. 

 We had about a day or two break and we were asked to step in at Oak, due to one of the Lead house parent couples having COVID.  A day in we learned that the Alternate couple was showing symptoms. By default, the entire house was exposed and so were we. Some of the residents got symptoms, I got symptoms and eventually tested positive, but somehow Nathan stayed symptom free. We went off after 7 days and went home to recover. 

The next few weeks we quarantined and attempted to catch up around Maple House. 

My quarantine was up faster than Nathans and so, when Pine house was yet again in need of coverage, I went in for 3 days as an assistant. The Alternate couple then found out they had been exposed to COVID, so... on Nathan and I went for another 7 days (10 days total for me). 

We had a short break to, again, catch up on maintenance work before we headed out to Illinois for a long weekend visiting family. 

enjoying some quiet time

We were back and hadn't finished unpacking before we were called back to Pine due to yet another COVID exposure. This time, some of the residents started having symptoms,. Seven residents, who don't feel well, who can't go anywhere- including school, who are tired of being together, who, for lack of a better word, are at Gateway for a reason, stuck in the same house together is a recipe for a disaster. And that is pretty much what we got.  The first three days on, it was pretty much crisis after crisis. We thankfully were given tons of support and we made it through. The last three days we managed to get a little more structure going and calmed down some of the tension in the house. 

We are off now. For who knows how long. Thankfully, there is only one house left that hasn't gone through quarantine and their house parents have already had COVID.

We've been so busy quarantining, these past two months have flown by. I'm hoping that things will be calm for a few months before we open Maple and the baby comes. 

We appreciate your prayers.

In Christ

~Michelle