Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 – Coleson’s
birthday!!
Random quarantine memories
*Chloe’s class does a call on Microsoft teams every
morning. From 8:45-9 they are free to
just chit chat and talk about whatever.
And so the class has been hearing our cuckoo clock go off at 9:00 every
morning. Mrs. Shakespeare asked Chloe if
she would start the meetings – so now the pressure is on to keep the time right
on the clock. When the clock goes off,
Chloe’s class job is to say something along the lines of “it’s 9:00, mute your
microphones, it’s time to start our meeting”
I love it!! The clock has always
had a special place in my heart, and I love that everyone else seems to love it
too!
*I’m hoping I don’t burn myself out on a new favorite lunch
– Abby and I love to have peanut butter, honey, and banana. I toast my bread first and have it open face,
eating with a fork. Abby puts it
together as a sandwich. Sooo good. Since I shop on Fridays only now, we usually
have it earlier in the week. Even though
I buy two big bunches, our fresh bananas run out by Tuesday or Wednesday. I also usually have a scoop of raisins on the
side. Those keep longer but are still
yummy [at least in my opinion, and I’m the one doing the shopping, hehe]. And cookies.
Cookies have helped me get through.
Any cookie will do, but my first choice is the Keebler soft batch. Jessi made me some amazing birthday
cookies. And Mari wrote on the top of
the Tupperware “Happy Birthday Mrs. Amy.
Amy’s cookies, do not touch” They
know me so well :)
*Our days have settled into a routine pretty well. Coleson has been getting up pretty early to
run and/or read his Bible. I try to get
up around 7/7:30 and I like to start my day listening to one of the online
devotions from Revolution Church. They’ve been doing them on facebook live daily
at noon. Noon is not ideal with three
kiddos and a work from home hubby, so I watch them later. I really enjoy them. Each morning has been a different chapter of
psalms. The kiddos come downstairs
around 8/8:30. The further into this we
get, the later the girls have been sleeping.
Finally! More often then not,
Chloe would be awake when I would come in at 6:15 on school morning. Breakfast, schoolwork, sometimes the LA Times
crossword for me, computer work/billpaying/ typing things like this/ etc. Abby usually finishes up mid-morning. Chloe takes most of the day. Ryan is done by maybe 2:00. Most days we eat lunch together standing
around the kitchen island about noon.
Chloe has an afternoon call at 3:00, these are fun ones – show and
tells, mystery readers, sing-a-alongs, book cooks. We try to bike and/or run. Lots of yard projects. Dinner followed by a walk around the
block. Grandma has been reading to the
girls from Anne of Green Gables. Occasionally
playing Yahtzee over facetime with Ryan.
Xbox in the evening, the girls will watch Ryan or play Roblox on their
chromebooks. Or watch Love it or List it
on HGTV.
*Cherokee county sent a survey to parents, teachers, and I
think high school students [I know not middle school] about how the year was
going and one of the questions was about the end date. Taking into account our preferences, the
school board unanimously voted to end school on May 8th this
year!! I’m ready to be done. The county, schools, teachers have been great
about walking everyone through these digital learning days. Their emails almost always start with a
message about grace. Compassion over
convention. Super kind thoughts like
that, I love our community.
*Our state has been on a stay-at-home, lockdown that is
supposed to go through April 30th.
Not much is open, and we’re encouraged to stay home when at all
possible. We really haven’t been out
much at all. And yet now, the governor
has approved some things to open up on Friday [the 24th]. I’m not sure how this goes along with the
lockdown that’s still in effect?! Hair
dressers, nail salons, gyms, and what we keep laughing at is, in the list of
maybe a dozen things, it specifically says bowling alleys. Go figure.
We’ve joking that we’re going bowling Friday night, weird. Our plan is to pretty much keep on, same old
same old, until May 8th. With
digital learning and Coleson working from home, we’ll just do our thing and see
how this “re-opening” plays out. We do
occasionally talk about our hopes and dreams and the crazy places we’ll go as
soon as school’s out. We’ll have a four
month summer with a hubby who will hopefully be able to work from home still. Not sure how much we’ll really be able to do
in reality, but it’s fun to daydream.
Rumor is that the pools might not even open, the neighborhood swim team
was recently cancelled for the 2020 season.
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