So my family (husband, myself, two kids 3 and 1) have been staying at home since The last week of March. Haven’t left, not even to grocery shop, we only walk to and from our mailbox at our apartment complex. My husband and myself have asthma, our three year old daughter has a blood disorder and gets extremely ill with even the common cold. So we’ve been super duper careful.
The case count out here in Phoenix has been making me nervous, and I’ve considered going back to our hometown while I guess the situation somewhat betters itself here in maricopa county. We have family living in Lancaster/Palmdale CA, part of Los Angeles county in CA. Now Los Angeles is the hardest hit in CA, and has seen record numbers and hospitalizations for days now. But the antelope valley has around 2,000 cases.
Another reason we’d really like to go as well, is our three year old hasn’t seen family since Christmas, and that was just my mom. She’s very close with her uncles, her cousin, my grandparents, etc. she hasn’t seen these people in almost a year. She’s also been dealing with a great amount of grief since May 2019 since her papa, my husbands father, died from an overdose, and I think since she’s older and talks about him everyday, she has a good grasp of the fact that he’s passed away and she expresses how much she really misses him. So on top of her grief and missing her family, she’s going insane not visiting parks or pools or doing any summer time activities.
So our thought is we’d drive to my mother house (it’s about 6.5 hours worth of driving, with stops with two young kids, it’ll be around 8-10 hours for us) and we’d stay with her (whom has also been isolating since March). I have a camera I can set up within my home and family members that can check on or even stay at our home here in Phoenix, and my kids can quite possibly have a summer in a town that has a significantly lower amount of cases, spending time with her close family, and having a chance at a summer and doing some activities.
So any suggestions and any type of advice is greatly appreciated. We have masks, masks for our kids, gloves, hand sanitizers, sanitizing products, and we’d be driving a rental car.
Submitted June 23, 2020 at 08:26PM by SnotDoods https://ift.tt/2VdfnIN
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