What have we been up to?
Glad you asked...
My kids have played a zillion games of Roblox and watched a trillion tv shows. They have had a boatload of video conferences where other households probably see waaaay to much of our seedy underbelly. They have made videos of themselves playing guitars and dancing and telling stories. And then sent them to everyone they know. It has been a lot. And that is with me kicking them off them still to do homework and eat and talk to the humans that live in this actual house with mouths that have brushed teeth in them. I need the Great Flood to be over...
Hubby went back to work and seems better for it. He is a man who likes to be moving so this is good. He has been bitten by my project bug though- I just found him in the basement at 8 at night using the saw to cut beams for a squat tower for the new workout area. Beams that he STOLE from my garden, mind you. Just because I hadn't given it a home yet, doesn't mean I didn't have a future plan for it...
I am in a quest to see how many days I can go between hair washes. I have very dry, and now very long, hair so I have been an every-other-day hair washer for years. Sometimes I stretch to three days if I am super lazy on day 3. I have long been intrigued with this group of people that claim to have 'trained' their hair into not needing shampoo...at all. This is true. They call it 'no-poo' Not sure I am buying that exactly, but the idea that ingredients in shampoo require you to reuse shampoo again over and over have me interested. Apparently Pantene is cocaine for your hair - who knew? So I bought a set of Burt's Bees natural shampoo and conditioner and set out on my quarantine haircare journey. Less for the all natural choice and more for the time value that I would gain from only having to blow dry and tame this beast once a week. It literally takes me an hour to blow dry my hair. On a related note, I rarely blow dry my hair. Thus my perpetual mom ponytail. I have made it to SIX days last week before it really felt like I needed to wash it. I will keep you updated...
School from home is going...well it is going. We spend 2-3 hours a day doing work and about 2 hours a day complaining about doing work. I am 98% certain that they will be retaining NONE of this information for next year. (Other than our kindergartener learning how to read - that one will probably stick.) You would think by now they would give in and understand school starts at 10, buckle up and prepare to LEARN...but no. Last minute snacks, half an hour to brush our hair, extra potty breaks, not sharp enough pencils....the pre-school is probably harder than the school at this point. We do have it down to a pretty good system of half teacher-worksheets and half-mommy apps and zoo journals. One is on the computer while I work with the other and then we flip flop. Then I shanghai their father into helping with bedtime reading and we call it good. It isn't awful. That is about as much accolades as it is going to get I think. I have made my peace with it.
We did quiet time after lunch today - which is when I put on Netflix and let them binge watch Fuller House so I can go upstairs and get my work done in the afternoons. Mondays get a little stressful because my phone and email blow up every Monday morning while we do school work. So Monday afternoons are pretty much free for alls while I get caught up and set up for the week.
We got our garden all planted before the rain - so either it will be awesome and things will germinate quickly OR it is all going to drown and turn to mush. Our 7 year old is pretty convinced this is the year he is going to grow an edible watermelon. This will be year 3 he has attempted it. Everyone pray for a baby watermelon for this child please. Our 6 year old just wants peas and sunflowers...she just walks along all the pea sprouts asking when she will be able to "eat them all up!" She is hilarious.
Our big kids went back to their mom's house for the week. We feel pretty safe letting them freely traverse between our houses now. Both houses are taking it pretty seriously and our kids know how to keep safe. That makes it a lot easier on them and us - it was hard to go without them for long time spans. This is way better. We are starting to think about when to re-schedule our senior's grad party, kinda waiting on the stay safe order expiration to see where things fall. The only thing worse than not having it now would be to have it - and have no one feel safe coming. We would rather wait later so everyone can come and have a great time together - especially since so many things were taken from these seniors this year due to covid - we really want her to get this party the right way.
Baseball has been cancelled. ugh. None of us really know what a Larive spring looks like without baseball...so that will be new.
Lots of new things this year...not many of them awesome, but some. Find the silver linings, right? As much as we want normal right now...our house is going to be moving very, very slowly toward normal life. Even when things begin to open up, I think we are going to go with the wait-and-see plan for a while. No point in doing all this for so long and then just rushing out and jumping in a stinking pile o' germs and spreading them all around the first day...we are going to take our time to smear our germs on y'all. You are welcome.
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