Quarantine: Sat. 3/21
We started attacking the mess of the house today. We cleaned up both kids' rooms, rearranged Lucia's furniture, vaccuumed, changed the sheets, removed all the junk that has migrated upstairs from the playroom. Then I made the kids try on all their spring clothes, because who knows when supply chains will break down? I wanted to make sure I could order whatever spring clothes they need, while we still can. (Fortunately, turns out they're both in good shape clothes-wise.)
I spent some time filling a virtual Whole Foods cart that I will attempt to actually purchase for the next week.
We went for a family bike ride, the kids played outside, and Farrah hung out outside most of the day, refusing to be lured inside even with treats. Later in the day we had a FaceTime happy hour with Andrew's sister and dad. We made the girls Shirley Temples, which they love.
Tonight we ordered dinner from Porto Falafel, and then watched an episode of Little House. We all hated this episode. The family's entire crop of wheat is ruined by hail, so Pa has to journey a hundred miles away to find work. He takes a dangerous job in a quarry, requiring him and a partner to drive a metal drill into solid rock, risking hands/wrists/arms with every swing of the sledgehammer. The girls were screaming every time Pa was shown at work. Not a relaxing, escapist episode. Anyone who's decided to work their way through the Little House seasons would do well to skip season 1, episode 3. (Though there was an excellent plotline of Ma taking charge of salvaging the ruined wheat--it wasn't totally ruined after all! CHARLES!)
I did four loads of laundry a couple of days ago and now have three more full loads to do, which is basically double the amount of laundry I did B.Q. (Before Quarantine). even though I have the exact same number of family members I've always had. Quarantine physics!!! It's a marvel! Laundry(4)(x)(z) where x represents the # of days in quarantine and z represents all the single socks and random clothing found during a bedroom cleanup.
I spent some time filling a virtual Whole Foods cart that I will attempt to actually purchase for the next week.
We went for a family bike ride, the kids played outside, and Farrah hung out outside most of the day, refusing to be lured inside even with treats. Later in the day we had a FaceTime happy hour with Andrew's sister and dad. We made the girls Shirley Temples, which they love.
Tonight we ordered dinner from Porto Falafel, and then watched an episode of Little House. We all hated this episode. The family's entire crop of wheat is ruined by hail, so Pa has to journey a hundred miles away to find work. He takes a dangerous job in a quarry, requiring him and a partner to drive a metal drill into solid rock, risking hands/wrists/arms with every swing of the sledgehammer. The girls were screaming every time Pa was shown at work. Not a relaxing, escapist episode. Anyone who's decided to work their way through the Little House seasons would do well to skip season 1, episode 3. (Though there was an excellent plotline of Ma taking charge of salvaging the ruined wheat--it wasn't totally ruined after all! CHARLES!)
I did four loads of laundry a couple of days ago and now have three more full loads to do, which is basically double the amount of laundry I did B.Q. (Before Quarantine). even though I have the exact same number of family members I've always had. Quarantine physics!!! It's a marvel! Laundry(4)(x)(z) where x represents the # of days in quarantine and z represents all the single socks and random clothing found during a bedroom cleanup.
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