Do you feel like a puppy-in-training?  When you get a new puppy, you repeat commands over and over. 

With the virus we are now facing, I feel like a new puppy.  I am in the house all the time.  I eat, take a bathroom break, sleep, and repeat.  I am in trouble all the time.  If a friend asks me if I have a face mask and I say, “No,” I am in trouble, bad dog (I mean girl,)  bad, bad girl.  If my answer to the face mask question is, “yes,” that’s still not good enough.  The next questions are: what kind of mask do you have and is it hospital-grade?  I hang my head in shame because my master (me) didn’t buy a hospital-grade face mask.  I am also in trouble because my paws (hands) are always dirty.  There isn’t a person who hasn’t explained to me how to wash my hands properly.  It doesn’t matter that my first life coach (my mother) showed me how to wash my hands.  It doesn’t matter that I worked in an orthodontist’s office and had eczema from washing my hands so often and so thoroughly.  It is extremely important…but I know how to wash my hands.  I am now receiving videos on how to wash my hands.  I am a mom who long before the virus said to my 20-something son, “Did you wash your hands?” every time he walked in the door.  Did you know there are lists of songs for people to sing in public restrooms so that they wash their hands for the correct length of time?  I thought we weren’t supposed to be in public restrooms.  Now about gloves.  Oh goodness, dogs can’t wear gloves. 

Counting the days until we can all feel less bad, and more good.