Hard to believe it has been a week since Friday the 13th. The day things got real...and it was announced that the schools were closing. I mean, we had known it COULD happen, but I don't think anyone could really wrap their heads around the reality of it. That is what we have all been doing day -by-day, hour-by-hour....trying to wrap our heads around something that is completely foreign and new to the modern world. So far no success in wrapping here...
That said, we keeping completely occupied and busy with 4 kids at home. We feel lucky they are still young enough where they don't completely HATE being stuck at home with us and each other. At least not yet...ask Chloe again next week. In fact, this is a DREAM for Ella. She loves nothing more than to be at home all day long. She is the biggest homebody I've ever met. She's happier than ever right now in her innocent little 7 year old world. We are working hard to keep the kids away from too much worry or stress about the situation.
We started right out with keeping up on a school schedule to the best of our ability. Myke even brought out the flag for the morning Pledge of Allegiance...and has a school bell sound play on the Home Pod right at 8:30a.m. It's pretty funny. By mid-week he had even printed out "tardy" slips for kids who weren't here when the bell rings. LOL.
We've had a lot of rain lately...which seems to add to the doom & gloom mood of the current pandemic-ridden society we are living in. The silver lining is that rain in San Diego often means snow in our nearby mountains so Wednesday was a field trip to Mount Laguna! We left at 8:30am which would usually mean terrible rush hour traffic...but we zipped right down the highway and then headed west. It was just over an hour's drive and didn't disappoint. Snow play at it's finest ...though my boys both were more than content to stay in the car (what's wrong with these kids?!) and draw pictures and laugh together. The girls were the one's out playing in the snow. Go figure.
Before the plow came through..a bit slippery!
So, yup, we are just keeping busy with Myke working (luckily, can work from home) and me putting my M.A. in Education (K-12) to work finally. I was just starting to get my paperwork back in order to do occasional subbing in the district and here I am now "working full time" but for no pay! Oh well, so far I love my new "class" and haven't needed to expel anyone. We will see what next week holds!
Hope everyone reading this is doing okay, staying home, staying safe & healthy, and finding ways to keep in positive spirits as we navigate this new (hopefully-very-temporary) lifestyle together.
xoxo
Sarah
(No time to proof read or edit...Ella has been waiting over 30 minutes for me to play Candyland so I need to run! Excuse any typos/poor grammar)
A few more from this week:
Pancake batter for St. Patty's (food dye central!!)
rainbow stacks
brotherly cuddles
(always touching eachother/bothering/wrestling/hugging)
Oh! I almost forgot to mention that my brother is here in San Diego!
Long story...but he's currently self-quarentining in my in-law's condo
in Pacific Beach (they are on the east coast) after traveling to the U.S. from Brazil. He arrived Monday. We stopped by to say hello from a distance.
Welcome to the sh*t-show that is the U.S. right now, Uncle Hale!
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