Quarantine Week 6
4/24/2020
Another week of lockdown is over.
Six weeks. Sounds long. Feels long.
But there is hope that restrictions will be lifted soon and more of life can return to a new normal.
My mother-in-law had a birthday this week. We were able to take her a daffodil bouquet and sing Happy Birthday from her front yard.
We made homemade applesauce this week, as well as some cinnamon applesauce muffins. Yum.
We had some friends deliver us some cheesy hashbrowns. Seems like every week are blessed by someone loving on us. We passed on the blessing to some other friends this week too.
My 6 year old loves to help in the kitchen. She's been making her own breakfast sometimes. Here she's whipping up a breakfast star omelet.
My oldest daughter did some touch up painting on our foyer walls. Our house continues to benefit from quarantine!
My little people did some reading together. Always makes my heart sing to see them like this!
We had some more beautiful spring weather, which allowed us to be outside. The kids enjoyed popsicles. We went on a few family walks. My oldest son played with his drone quite a bit this week.
And we had a campfire in the backyard.
Some places are now requiring face masks in order to enter. We don't have any masks and they are hard to find due to high demand. So we found a no-sew face mask tutorial online and finally have a few face masks (made out of an old t-shirt).
I gave the littlest kids a new Lego set. Hours of fun.
Speaking of hours of fun, we finally resorted to adult coloring pages to occupy some time! :-) My 6 year old is loving these and doing an amazing job. We'll be mailing some of our artwork to grandparents this week.
We played Line Up and Sorry this week.
In the past week, our schedule filled up a little more. Church is getting more accustomed to Zoom conference calls. My daughter's youth group meets this way now on Wednesday nights. And my oldest son has now started meeting this way with a small group. And my husband and I lead a mixed small group virtually now too. So, my 6 year old girl was feeling left out and specifically asked if she could Zoom with her co-op friend Addie. They did this week and it did her emotions good to actually socialize!
My oldest daughter has her driver's permit but has not been very anxious to get her practice hours in... until now. This is a good time to practice, with fewer cars on the road and with both mom and dad available to accompany her. So she did some driving this week, after taking a 7 month hiatus.
We've taken this quarantine as a eat-from-the-pantry challenge, meaning that we are trying to use up what we have and not spend as much money on groceries. This has been going well for us, as a way to keep expenses low in uncertain economic times and to be good stewards of what we already have (and to just be aware of it all too).
Hoping that there won't be many more weeks to this quarantine saga!
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