Day 15.
I feel like we need a party. Maybe a good quincañera? I mean, it’s a world wide, multicultural event we are experiencing, so a Mexican coming of age party sounds really exciting to me.
Plus, the food would be amazing.
I was woken this morning by a phone call from my person. She’s having to balance two toddlers, a husband, two dogs, a job from home, and maintain her own sanity. She doesn’t think she’s winning, but they’re alive and she’s a freaking rock star, so I’d say she’s winning pretty hard core today. Her day got rougher, so I sent her a lot of love. When we all earn our freedom, I can’t wait to hug her.
I’d barely finished our phone conversation when I looked out my kitchen window. The dogs had started barking, so I was curious. My dad was in the street! He’d gone for a bike ride on this beautiful spring day, and decided to swing by and say hello! I haven’t seen him in 13 days, so I was SUPER excited. I almost jumped out of my skin!
He gave me a hard time for being out in my bare feet, but it was so totally worth it to see my dad!
It was refreshing to have a chance to catch up.
I’m really not sure how the kids are still alive. They were at each other’s throats so intensely that I thought it might take a flame thrower to separate them. I was afraid for my own life.
They did come out of it in one piece, but as is tradition on a Saturday, they did almost nothing at all productive.
One kid showered.
We even braided her hair!
I learned today that if we let our hedges get enough out of control, the neighbors will offer to clip them for us!
They spent a couple of hours clipping back our diseased shrubs, which I thought was fitting for a nurse who has taken the next week off. Swapping one disease for another. (Don’t judge her, she’s an AMAZING pediatric nurse, and thankfully the pediatric department has been very slow with the clinic being more careful and more families staying home).
The best part was when her dogs decided to help!
The two of them together chewed up a stick.
The same one.
Some siblings can get along!
My furbabies have been busily singing along to fire sirens, and telling stories to the entire neighborhood.
They have a lot to say.
I took my daily walk, this time without my children (it was so freeing!!) I listened to my book, and tried not to freeze in the headwind. I could hear my dogs from several blocks away.
I guess the bright side is that they’re very protective.
They sound vicious, but they’re so sweet and really harmless…
This one might be part wolf though…
It’s a good thing he can’t read this blog. He’d be so embarrassed.
Today was a pretty good day. I’m hoping for another warm one tomorrow, and with all this walking, my audiobooks, and my Weight Watchers, I can come out of this quarantine period with the ability to shop for a new wardrobe.
I have too many old lady clothes as it is…
Or maybe I just need to stop calling clean pajamas daytime clothes…
Corona Can't Keep Me Down 