CONGRATULATIONS! you’ve reached day forever and a half of quarantine! Have you started to feel stir-crazy and squirmish like you’re tied to a chair and there’s ants in your pants and the whole world is just outside your grasp but you can’t reach and everyone around you is feeling the exact same way so you and the people you’ve been stuck with for forever and and a half are having a big ol’ anxiety fest?

Welcome to the club! 

Since our old pal quarantine has decided to stick around for a while I’ve decided to start a blog. But Grace, why did you decide to start a blog? Great question, inner-self. Maybe I’m an amazing genius and the world deserves to know about my greatest (and not so great) triumphs and tragedies, maybe I don’t know, or maybe it’s a secret so crazy that the world would tear itself apart if the secret were revealed (I’m personally voting for the last one). But Grace, if you’re such an “amazing genius”, then why don’t you know? Well inner-self aren’t you feeling curious today… Great question, glad you asked.

Today has been normal so far. Play with Millie (my messy, playful, handful of a dog, and newest addition to the Topliff family…because the world TOTALLY needs more Topliffs right now). I played with her until her paws were messy enough to coat our entire downstairs floor with dirt, so probably about 20 minutes.

I had a tea party with my two-year-old brother, Cannon Doc Topliff. A tea party with Doc is basically taking the miniature pumpkin themed tea set I have and, while he sits on my lap, I hand him the tiny pitcher of milk and I hold the jar of sugar cubes (because he lost both of my–as he says– “pun-kin tea cupths”). Then I say “Cheers?” and he says “okay.” And we together say “dink” at the same time.Then he complains about life and how unfair the world is. Or wait, maybe that was me. That’s all I’ve got for today. Let’s meet again tomorrow. Same time, same place? I’ll be here.