CoronaLife Week 1

We found out on Friday, March 13th that Jonathan wouldn't be going back to school the following week.  Georgia's school canceled as well.  So obviously we're all just in this strange in between time.  We can't go anywhere or do anything.  We're taking this time to continue to educate our children at home and get A LOT of home projects done.  I'm extra blessed in this situation because Jonathan is a principal so he gets to be home with us.

We get up and get dressed and ready and do...

Bible study

PE

Math

Reading

Writing

Break

Creative Play

Naps

Art/Music

Science/History

Lifeskill

Over the weekend we worked a lot in the yard.  We had let the yard get away from us while Barrett was a newborn.  We live on an acre so we maintain it ourselves because I don't want to pay someone to mow and maintain that much yard. It's a lot of work every few weeks but we both find it rewarding for now and don't dislike doing it. Actually, Jonathan and the kids LOVE burning stuff.  We have a lot of trees so down limbs are common.  We've pretty much burned everything we can at this point.  I LOVE cutting down limbs...we shove all of those in the trash.  Our house and yard were in such bad shape when we first bought this house and it's been a long slow process.  We don't seem to ever do anything fast, unfortunately.

After we got the far back yard cleaned up we told the kids we could do s'mores.  We still have a lot to go but can only go as fast as we can get stuff in the trash or timed with large trash collection times. (When we bought our home there was a lot of random junk in the yard so its been a hassle to get it all gone. I still haven't cleared one main section because it's hiding these huge blocks of broken concrete that weigh a TON and we don't really have an easy way to get rid of because of where they are on our lot)

Jonathan has been doing PE with the kids in the morning while Barrett takes his longest nap.  This week they're learning how to play soccer and going on bike rides.

We usually walk down to my mom's house and talk to her in the front yard and don't go in the house. Milam was giving Nanny kisses on the glass door.

All three of my kids have had a super quick virus the past few days. Milam had it first. His temp was 99.5 for not even half a day.  Barrett's was 100.5 for a few hours and Georgia's was 100.4 for a few hours.  It was literally the strangest thing.

Georgia has to know what's going on.  Always.  She made a desk to look out her window onto the front yard so she doesn't miss one thing.  Here she was doing her Prodigy Math game.

Honestly, Barrett makes this entire situation a little more difficult. Kids inside all day are loud when you need your baby to nap. That is probably the hardest part.  Keeping the bigger two quiet while he's asleep. The first day he was still sleeping great but now he isn't. Boo. Like, horrible. I mean he's happy...look at that cute fat face but momma needs him to sleep so I can get some things done!

I didn't take the time to print out our schedule because I knew it would change when Georgia's school gets more info to us.  They are supposed to tonight (Thursday) so we'll see what happens but we've done a lot of school related work. Cooking, YouTube, documentaries, slime, reading, flash cards...all kinds of stuff.

We've also been sleeping in a lot and enjoyed naps

We have spent a lot of time outside and went to take our bluebonnet pictures

 We wore green and rainbows for St. Patrick's day

 Just yesterday (Friday) did we get our first bout of bad weather. We sat and watched it rain because we had nothing else to do

My stomach is in knots today (Saturday the 21st) and I guess it's just anxiety.  We're home bound at it wouldn't be so bad but Barrett is still on nap strike.  We have in the sleep suit at night and he's doing great (11 hours straight) in it then but his naps are just horrible. We've tried to find the correct amount of "wake time" but it just isn't working.  I put him in his swaddle again today after a 37 minute sleep suit nap and he cried for a bit but eventually fell asleep. Then, there's Milam. He is having a rough time with the quarantine and more focus being on Barrett.  We give him all the love and all the snuggles we possibly can but the disorder of life right now is getting to him.  He wants to know why he can't go to speech or see his teachers or go to HEB. Having to be quiet all the time so Barrett can sleep is hard on him...it's hard on all of us.