Quarantine: Wed. 4/29
Today passed...peacefully. Homeschool in the morning. Greta's working on a nonfiction piece about capybaras, so we've been watching a lot of videos about capybaras, which are pretty darn cute. Greta's drawings of capybaras are keeping me going. She also worked on a diorama about capybaras' habitat, grasslands, which involved making some tiny capybaras out of Sculpey. You KNOW I was on board with that. And Lucia's working on a story about the Great Depression, which she's enjoying.
They played outside for a while to take a break, then came in for lunch. The kids made each other lunch--Greta made scrambled eggs for Lucia, and Lucia made grilled cheese for Greta. Then more work on school stuff. Then quiet time.
And then quiet time just...didn't end. I was working on lots of different things in my office and the kids were reading and reading, and even after I went downstairs to take Farrah for a walk they were still reading. And they were still reading later in the afternoon when Andrew finished up his work, and the two of us were actually just hanging around reading too until it was time for dinner. It was cold and gloomy outside, and that subdued energy informed the whole day.
The books that have taken over the kids' lives are the School for Good and Evil books. They can't put them down.
Dinner was black bean soup, made with a ham hock in the slow cooker. Delish.
Now FINALLY the kids are in bed (well, actually they're still reading but will be in bed soon) and we can watch McMillions. Last night we watched McMillions AND had a cheese and salami platter. That was pretty great. #quarantinelife
What We're Reading, Watching, Etc.
Margo: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Andrew: a collection of 8th-century Chinese poetry (SNOOZE FEST)
L&G: School for Good and Evil #5 and #2
Read aloud: On the Banks of Plum Creek
Current podcast: Family Secrets
Current show: McMillions
They played outside for a while to take a break, then came in for lunch. The kids made each other lunch--Greta made scrambled eggs for Lucia, and Lucia made grilled cheese for Greta. Then more work on school stuff. Then quiet time.
And then quiet time just...didn't end. I was working on lots of different things in my office and the kids were reading and reading, and even after I went downstairs to take Farrah for a walk they were still reading. And they were still reading later in the afternoon when Andrew finished up his work, and the two of us were actually just hanging around reading too until it was time for dinner. It was cold and gloomy outside, and that subdued energy informed the whole day.
The books that have taken over the kids' lives are the School for Good and Evil books. They can't put them down.
Dinner was black bean soup, made with a ham hock in the slow cooker. Delish.
Now FINALLY the kids are in bed (well, actually they're still reading but will be in bed soon) and we can watch McMillions. Last night we watched McMillions AND had a cheese and salami platter. That was pretty great. #quarantinelife
What We're Reading, Watching, Etc.
Margo: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Andrew: a collection of 8th-century Chinese poetry (SNOOZE FEST)
L&G: School for Good and Evil #5 and #2
Read aloud: On the Banks of Plum Creek
Current podcast: Family Secrets
Current show: McMillions
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