Quarantine: Sat. 5/2
I dislike the weekends. Does anyone else dislike the weekends? "Weekends," I guess. I should like them, because there's no morning of homeschool. But in some ways that tiny shred of routine is all that gives shape to the weekdays. On the weekends ("weekends"), there's just free-form hours of free-formness. Free-formity.
But it was a gorgeous, gorgeous day today, which makes everything better. The kids played outside in the mud with their Legos Friends figures. Andrew and I washed off the porch and all the porch furniture. We set up the tinker space, and the kids spent the rest of the afternoon grinding chalk and making various chalk mixtures. Andrew and I read on the porch. I took Farrah for a walk. I attended a virtual literary reading. We grilled burgers and hot dogs for dinner and ate outside. I Zoomed with my college roomies.
Farrah played outside most of the day--she loves being wherever the kids are, and she REALLY loves it when they kick a ball around with her, and she REALLY REALLY loves it when she manages to grab one of their toys in her mouth and everyone chases her around the yard, yelling at her to drop it. She runs in circles so fast that her body is almost parallel to the ground. This is ideal weather for wearing out a puppy. She's been sleeping since the second the kids went upstairs to bed.
A good day. Free-formity is much improved by good weather.
What We're Reading etc:
Margo: How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Andrew: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz the Financial Times zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Lucia: re-reading one of the School for Good and Evil books. She's desperately waiting for the release of #6.
Greta: School for Good and Evil #3. She also wants to start Peter and Wendy.
Read-aloud: We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek and may start Harry Potter 5 next.
Show: Tiger King extra episode (gratuitous, unnecessary), SNL at Home (are we cry-laughing or just crying? thank goodness for funny people)
But it was a gorgeous, gorgeous day today, which makes everything better. The kids played outside in the mud with their Legos Friends figures. Andrew and I washed off the porch and all the porch furniture. We set up the tinker space, and the kids spent the rest of the afternoon grinding chalk and making various chalk mixtures. Andrew and I read on the porch. I took Farrah for a walk. I attended a virtual literary reading. We grilled burgers and hot dogs for dinner and ate outside. I Zoomed with my college roomies.
Farrah played outside most of the day--she loves being wherever the kids are, and she REALLY loves it when they kick a ball around with her, and she REALLY REALLY loves it when she manages to grab one of their toys in her mouth and everyone chases her around the yard, yelling at her to drop it. She runs in circles so fast that her body is almost parallel to the ground. This is ideal weather for wearing out a puppy. She's been sleeping since the second the kids went upstairs to bed.
A good day. Free-formity is much improved by good weather.
What We're Reading etc:
Margo: How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Andrew: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz the Financial Times zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Lucia: re-reading one of the School for Good and Evil books. She's desperately waiting for the release of #6.
Greta: School for Good and Evil #3. She also wants to start Peter and Wendy.
Read-aloud: We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek and may start Harry Potter 5 next.
Show: Tiger King extra episode (gratuitous, unnecessary), SNL at Home (are we cry-laughing or just crying? thank goodness for funny people)
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