Week #4

Well to be honest, I had to pull out my calendar and check the dates for this blog because I didn't know what we did in week #4. The days are all running together and as I write this we are on week #6 of this life and no end in sight for us in New Jersey. Here in Jersey we are getting hit really hard by Covid-19 or "CoRONAvirus" as Finley likes to call it. We have many cases, I don't really know how many because I don't watch the news anymore. 
I would have never guessed a few weeks ago that words like "social distancing", "stay at home orders, "flattening the curve" would be part of daily life and that our kids would comment on people being too close together when they are watching a TV show. 
We finished another week of school and we are not doing well with it. The kids don't want to do the work, I don't want to spend all day fighting with them and it feels like so much time on the computers. I know the teachers are working so hard and we appreciate all they are doing and the kids miss them so much! But real life with 4 kids at home, virtual schooling is just not my jam! 

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This week ended with Easter Sunday and the kids were all up at 5 A.M. ready to run downstairs for mediocre Easter baskets. We ended up taking a family nap before noon and then spent the rest of the afternoon outside together. Quinn made us a cake for dessert. She loves cooking and wants to be on Master Chef Junior so very bad. 

 

Christmas Pajamas on Easter is about the most Quarantine thing ever. 

Reid is obsessed with buses and the Easter Bunny nailed it for this kid, he misses the buses coming past the door several times each day. 

      

We are now required to wear a mask when we go to the grocery and when we enter any public area. It seems so unreal that this is now life. 

The Easter Bunny drove through the hood and Reid LOVED it, he screamed about it all day. 

  

I am so ready to have drinks with friends again, I miss friends! 

I scored a great deal on used Nerf Guns and the kids have had so much fun shooting everybody. Reid yells "I shoot Mommy!" and then cracks up! He loves "LELO" and wants to do anything that Leo does. 

Most days by time Dave gets home from work I am just hanging on for dear life. This nonstop kids with no break and no friends can be so exhausting!! 

 

We ventured to the local winery for some Sangria this weekend, you know to support local businesses. We drove to two different Chick-fil-as because the first one was closed and had a picnic in the back of the car. I had to also go to Chipotle because Quinn doesn't like Chick-Fil-a!!!?!? But will destroy a chicken bowl from Chipotle?! It felt weird leaving base (we had not left base for over 4 weeks) and to be honest it made me so anxious, I don't think we will be leaving base again for a bit. 

The Easter Bunny was at the winery but the kids were all terrified of him. 

More Portal time with Grandma, it is Reid's most favorite thing to do and he gives me serious attitude and yells "I CALL MAMAW!" if I won't let him call her. 

 

Charlie wants to be outside with the kids all the time and this day I didn't feel like having him out front so he sat at the window and watched them. He is the best boy, Finley and Charlie have such a sweet relationship and she always makes sure his food and water bowls are full. 

Reid helps me with my workouts. 

This dinner was really hard. Dave is at work A LOT lately and Reid was crying all dinner "I want daddy." We are ready for a family vacation when this is all over, even if that vacation is in our backyard!!! 

We have to walk our trash to the dumpster (or drive it) but lately walking the trash to the dumpster has become a highlight of our weeks! Again, Reid never wears pants. I hope when life returns to normal we start accepting that some people just don't want to wear pants! 

 

Dave is working at the EOC 3 days a week and sometimes its pretty busy so he doesn't get time to leave for lunch so we have been walking lunch over to him. This is also a highlight of everybody's day. 

And I think it is appropriate to end the blog with this. I mean literally nonstop kids for weeks upon weeks and you just start caring a lot less about things that used to matter! Some kids don't wear pants, some wear the same pajamas for days in a row, sometimes we have cookies for breakfast, some days we just skip all school work but still check the box that we completed it all for the day.... we are just trying to survive over here! 

Hope everybody is staying safe and healthy and enjoying this time together! 

Being outside is good, life is good.