Well, I’ve spent the day telling everyone our isolation has been 22 days. It’s been 23. It almost feels like thinking it’s Saturday, but realizing it’s Sunday. We’ve earned a bonus day without any of the work!
We have become really big fans of the Overdrive/Libby app from the library. Oldest child listened to two audiobooks today and started another. I’m nearly finished with one and have more on hold. At this rate, by the time this isolation ends, we will have read the entire library!
Oldest child drank and dumped my buttermilk yesterday, so no chocolate cake, but a friend and neighbor was at the store and dropped some on the porch for us.
Needless to say, today there’s still no chocolate cake!
For some reason, it seems the whole world is sleepy today. Everyone I’ve talked to has run out of motivation or energy. Maybe tomorrow I’ll try!
I did do some cooking today though. I found a recipe with a silly name, hootenanny, and it was delicious!! It’s like French toast with no bread… Yum!!
The picture on the recipe looked wildly different from my final product, but that was okay. It was delicious!
I ate my entire day’s Weight Watchers points at lunch, so that was fun. Wasn’t totally worth it. We tend to idealize things like chili cheese dogs… Maybe if I’d chopped onions.
Small kid helped her dad clean the garage today. She was SO excited! Especially because she wanted to earn some money. She ended up with something in her eye and needed photographic evidence that whatever it was couldn’t be seen.
I love those freckles!
Big child asked for $13 to bring in wood, and $17 to clean dog poop in the back yard. A bit excessive if you ask me, but her dad hopped right on it. Icky chores are definitely worth more money.
Small child wanted to help clean the garage and asked excitedly if she could have $1 for helping. Poor kid has no idea how much she short changed herself…
I’d have paid $5 if she’d asked!
I’m not sure, though, where all this money is coming from. At the moment, we have a stack of I.O.U.s and I’m praying for some forgetful kids!
Tonight, I’m reminded why I’m grateful for my mother in law.
Well, okay, I’m grateful for her for many reasons, but this one is completely self serving. When we come to visit her, she makes a really yummy breakfast casserole in the crock pot. It’s one of the easiest recipes and tastes SO good.
I’ve cooked the sausage, mixed the eggs and veggies, and started the casserole for tomorrow. It’s back to school schedule (if you can really call it that) and we are so bad about breakfast!
Interesting thing I realized today… We spent the first week or so disappointed by the need to quarantine dad and a kid in the basement and Mom and a kid upstairs. Now, we are much more willing to spend that time apart voluntarily!
I have a TV upstairs, Ben has one in the basement, the kids have one in their play room, and of course we have devices coming out our ears…
We get a bit restless, but we don’t get bored!!
Katie the dog will probably want to write tomorrow. She was forced to bathe today, and I should have taken a photo of the bathtub when she was done… It was muddy. She still is, too…
Tomorrow, she gets a haircut and is forced to stay indoors as much as possible until the yard is less muddy. Ah, spring.
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