Sheltering solo during the pandemic of 2020 means I’m celebrating my birthday alone. I had my traditional midnight champagne toast and took this photo. Yay timer button and iPad stand 🎉🎉 My brother kept

Metzli as the bad wife

There's a real question right now about the virus being transmissible from human to dogs/cats and from them to humans. Quarantining your pet or you from your pet presents some real problems, just

Metzli navigates through parenting during the shelter in place.

Taos has been handling the COVID-19 pandemic in some interesting ways. Most are following precautions, social distancing, face masks. The most non-essential business started shunting down around the 20th,

@metzli mentally prepares herself to leave her house for a medical appointment

There are lots of truths out there, but one of them is that staying home is the safest option for us at the moment. Here are some examples of how I am staying sane, and thriving during this shelter-in-place:

One of the benefits of sheltering in place, is the benefit of time. I have enough time to sleep, and I have enough time to watch my kids do their chores. You want to clean up your toy box one lego at a

Yesterday a visit from my parents reminded me how awesome going back to "The Little Things" is I visit my parents on Sundays and it is the only "social interaction" my children are

For the most part things are great My house is cleaner than its been since my mom was babysitting for my current youngest. All my laundry is done, even the blankets and the towels. All my counters are

Three days before the school system in San Diego Closed, I started a "shelter in place" for me and my children I am seven months pregnant and in close proximity to my parents who are in their