So tonight we went for a bike ride with the two little kids and, despite all the neat places within our range, they led us to parking lot after parking lot. Because they could go in big circles really fast. Fact #503 proving that kids are easily entertained - don't waste your money buying them crap. Right??? However, even parking lot circles were exciting for us, too. It felt good after this cold snap to get outside for a while today. We also went to our neighborhood park and ran up and down the big grassy hill while Dad hit golf balls with his pitching wedge and dreamed.
Our household underwent a pretty massive shift this weekend - dropping from 7 to 4 inhabitants. My baby sister was living with us for the last month, keeping away from our parents who are considered higher risk- but part of the generation that apparently thinks they have some built in magic left from the 70's that will keep them from getting anything. So we have quarantined them for their own good, but amid much protest. Anywhoo...my baby sister moved out to my other sister's barn. That sounds rough, but it is heated and has its own fridge and tv, soooooo not really hard living. We played Catan via Zoom yesterday - nothing is going to stand in our way of conquering the world of board games.
Our older two kids switched back to their mom's house this weekend as well. They have been with us for three weeks, but as it becomes apparent that this isn't ending anytime soon we adjusted and sent them off armed with masks to rejoin their mama and family they had been missing. Such a weird world this is right now. So now we are down to just the four of us, which is a very VERY different dynamic than the one we had with seven. Life is adjusted once again. This mama is getting a divine lesson on going with the flow this year. I hear ya, God. I'm trying.
Tomorrow starts our distance learning. Our first grader appears to have a significant amount of actual learning to be done. Our kindergartner....not so much. We sat down all together to agree on 'school time' in an effort to head off complaining and whining - and had a conversation about how this isn't summer vacation yet and we still have work to do. We will revisit how well this goes tomorrow night - but just to be safe, I had the hubby grab me a new bottle of Gentlemen Jack on his grocery run. Self care.
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