So 'dug' is maybe a bit of an exaggeration....more like raked and tilled and then got down on my hands and knees and pulled chunks of grass for four hours. And it was GLORIOUS. We are putting a garden in this year -an actual in the ground garden, rather than another raised bed creation. We are putting it in right next to the street. Technically...this is in the hell strip between the street and the sidewalk and the city has all claim to it - except when it is time to mow it. However, it just looks like wasted space and opportunity to me - so we rotatilled it up and I am going to plant somewhat short plants and see if anyone gives me a hard time. Tomorrow we are going to put some logs around it and fill it up with mulch - and then I am good to start planting.
Our first week of distance learning was pretty brutal - but we made it through. Our kindergartner has a pretty good handle on the things she has to do - her teacher does cute videos and she only gave the kids a lesson or two a day. My first grader? His teacher is fantastically old-school and I love it - but she is trying to continue a full day worth of curriculum at home and we just can't do it and keep from having mental breakdowns. So I did end up calling her and negotiating to a schedule that is more manageable for our house right now. I feel a lot better having talked with her and adjusted our schedule a bit, hopefully next week will be a much better week for us.
Today was the day our high school daughter should have had her senior prom. She is with her mom right now and they got her all dressed up and went for car visits to family and took pictures in her dress. She looked just gorgeous. I keep waiting for her school to come up with some kind of senior send off plan for all these kids to make up for these missed milestones, but I think they are waiting just like the rest of us to see what the future brings. We are already plotting about holding a hillbilly prom for her and some friends out in my sister's pole barn once we are free to move around the world again. Just tough not knowing when that will be. Her grad party is planned for mid-June and it isn't looking like that is going to work out right now either, so we will have to adjust again. I should be fantastic at adjusting by now....
We have done some fantastic things in these last few weeks - there is much to be said for silver linings. My husband is going gangbusters on projects we have been talking about for a while. He has our basement almost completely remodeled. What once was a bedroom and a giant holding space for all our stuff is now two bedrooms, a workroom, a family room, and a workout space. It makes me super happy. It almost didn't happen. He and I have a pattern we go through. I am a dreamer and a planner and a reworker - I am always looking at stuff and thinking how it could work better. He always half listens to my ideas, tell me they are ridiculous and/or impossible, and then eventually comes around while complaining still, and then at the end tells me how fantastic it is. We make a good team of vision and know-how... we just have to iron out the middle part of the process to be more efficient. So the basement is almost done, we have a new garden in, he rebuilt the downstairs shower, he retiled in front of the fireplace, he painted twenty different things outside red, and has burned a lot of stuff in the fire pit. A LOT. None of this EVER would have happened right now normally. Normally spring is the beginning of crazy season for him, normally I have to hunt him down to have a conversation and run the house pretty much alone while he is out bringing home the spring bacon. So silver lining....my honey to do list is getting decimated.
Also on this silver lining list...waking up without an alarm clock, movie nights cuddled with my kids, Zoom Catan, family meals, as many campfire nights as we want, going out on a Thursday night to watch the stars, all the acts of kindness I see happening all over the community, unlimited garden time, reading an entire book, puzzling with my husband on my new puzzle board, bike rides....and on and on and on. We have belly laughed every day and are spending time on our family and our home together. I miss many things, but keeping focused on all these silver linings is going to keep me going.
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