The Day of the Sloth

Hello friends! Winter showed back up today -although with sunshine- and it frankly bummed me out a bit. It is one thing to be sequestered together with plenty of outside time. Being sequestered on an inside day felt hard. Also, my spring allergies are kicking my butt -and causing me coronavirus anxiety and also does not seem fair if there is snow flurries outside. Know your role Mother Nature- so perhaps I am just impatient with the world today. My husband brought me home more allergy meds this afternoon so hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Enough whining...

We decided that on weekends we would have morning free-for-alls and just fun activities in the afternoons. So the kids all laid around and napped and played Roblox and ate cookies and, in general, were just giant sloths. I napped and tried unsuccessfully to kill my headache. The day marches on. The kids are learning a great deal about how to do chores on this enforced break. After lunch, they put away towels (any other OCD parents out there will understand how hard I bit my tongue for this one, I will include a photo in the comments of how my upstairs towel cupboard looks. I can't bear to look at it anymore, but this is how they learn...this is how they learn...this is how they learn...right???) and did dishes - both chores taking about five times longer than normal. After that we worked on our posterboard towns, did some typing, and watched the episode on lions on CinnZoo with our journals.

Then more sloth behavior.

Then dinner.

Then an INSANE, but not totally unexpected, burst of energy that wound up with a hockey/basketball game in my living room. Which I squashed. Because I am the ruiner of all the fun.

Then I made our 7 yr old invite his sister for a sleepover in his new room, set them up to read a story to their aunt over FB, and came and crawled into bed - where I now talk to you.

Hope your day was a little more positive - I will take all prayers and good vibes for a better day tomorrow. We have grand plans of having a Facetime church time with a few family members - I will tell you all about it tomorrow!