Day 1 March 14: The schools in Ohio have been instructed to close. Our family has postponed the vacation we had booked for spring break. We're hunkered down on a rainy day with some homemade curry, chess pie, books and movies.
Day 2 March 15: A pretty typical Sunday for us. Spent some time in the backyard, grilled burgers, watched sitcoms, kids played. Governor DeWine ordered restaurants and bars closed, except for carry-out, delivery, and drive-through.
Day 3 March 16: Home school activities in the morning, afternoon outdoors on the trampoline, swings and around the campfire (bonus: all the fallen branches were picked up from around our property to feed the fire). We made grilled cheese sandwiches over the fire to boot. A before and after photo from this day below (the after doesn't really do justice to the mess):
Day 4 March 17: St Patrick's Day and only one of us can claim to have any Irish ancestry. We still incorporated the day into our home school work. I am not ashamed to say we listened to The Cranberries to represent something Irish. We also read W. B. Yeats (about whose work particularly regarding fairy lore I once wrote a lengthy paper in college). Leftovers for lunch and once the sun came out in the afternoon, we went outside. The Primary Election scheduled for today was postponed overnight.
Day 5 March 18: The rains have arrived, so that makes things harder. Got the school work done and just relaxed. I feel a great need to cook and bake to the point where after dinner last night I made double lemon buttermilk muffins. Nothing productive ever happens after dinner if you're me in a non-emergency state.
Day 6 March 19: First day of spring, mild but dreary and wet. Got through the school work, but not feeling motivated for much at all. Ella and I started reading Home of the Brave and Emilia is doing an amazing job learning to locate countries on a map. After just one day working on this, she can independently locate six countries, our home city, and the state where her grandma lives. Things tend to be calm until just before dinner and then for some reason the crazy breaks loose until bedtime.
Day 7 March 20: We got a few hours of sunshine today and made good use of them before the temp is forecast to drop 40 degrees. Craig ventured out for a solo weekly grocery run (store well stocked) and in order to support local small business, we got carry out lunch from our little corner cafe. Our plan is to do this once or twice a week for local restaurants until the social and physical restrictions are lifted. School work check, provisions check, house not totally falling apart (yet) check. Ready to binge Homeland now.
This and that from Week 1
*Less laundry because we don't get dressed or fully dressed each day.
*My child who struggles to eat and drink due to (school) anxiety is chowing down like there's no tomorrow.
*So thankful for our backyard when it's not raining.
*A little academic work goes a long way.
*We've made it through without increasing daily tech time so far.
*Mad Men and The Office - enough said.
*168+ hours in quarantine so far. No one in, only Craig out as necessary.
What about Riverdance for something Irish? Perhaps the girls will like it. Stay safe all of you!
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