Two months later and there is a smidge of hope for things to return to a new normal....restaurants, stores, salons, and small businesses are beginning to open.
The mandatory shelter-in-place order was lifted a week ago yet it is still recommended that we remain in our homes.
Schools have ended their learn-from-home year....teachers were struggling with this set-up as were the children. For our family, Colin has finished for the Spring semester; Pryce has finished his Junior year with school except for AP exams, the first of which he took today and felt good about; MK has finished her 7th grade year; Maddox and Maryn are homeschooling - we will be doing reading, math, and ELA throughout the summer; Chapman is loving life, she has the attention of the brothers, MK reads to her daily, Maddox does school with her, and Maryn is her partner in crime....it is the ideal life when you are in preschool.
Ryan went back to work today for at least this week.
Goodness, what a great two months it has been. All of my babies and my husband, all together with no where to go but home. Thankful the boys have had each other to hang out together, thankful MK has had time with her brothers and her sisters - she is the glue to both the bigs and the littles, thankful for the time my littles have had with each other just being sisters.
A snippet of what we have been up to.
My friend, Whitney, did pics with the children in our field. I was beyond stressed out their clothing - coordinating all of them was not going well so I threw my hands up in the air and told them just to pick something out and put it on....and they did and the pics were fabulous!
Ryan began building a playhouse for the girls....more to come.
The girls discovered one of nature's wonders, honeysuckles. They have now mastered the art of finding and tasting the honey.
We spent hours outside making gigantic bubbles and riding plasma cars, albeit train style, around the pool.
Maddox, usually our indoor child, has found a new liking for outdoor activities....hoverboard and the ripstick. She also taught me how to play Trash....she wins most every time but occasionally I can get ahead and come out on top too.
As a family, we went through a period of "Top Ten" lists. This brought out a bit of discussion, sometimes intense discussion, over dinner. The boys were particularly funny with this....dressing for the occasion and presenting their lists as if in a courtroom environment....truly, there were a lot of laughs. Some of our topics were Top Ten Pixar movies, Top Ten Summer Olympic games, Top Ten Dreamworks movies....
Maryn made a quick little moondough activity one day....it was supposed to be non-messy but turned out to be quite sticky and the girls were not fans of the way it smelled, lol.
The rest of our days were really spent by the pool, in the pool or walking in our neighborhood. There is a fun little creek not too far from our home....the girls love to get their feet wet, throw rocks, walk on the rocks, etc. Just good, innocent fun.
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