Friday Funny

Me: Where's Katie?

Ellie: She's sizzle-izing.

(Socializing)

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I didn’t know homeschoolers we’re allowed to do that in the middle of a Thursday. 🤣

Quarantine Day 8/9/11

So, depending on who you are in our family, you haven’t participated in your regular outside activities for 11 days (Ellie, Gabby, and me), 9 days (Nate), and 8 days (Katie).  Justin has gone to work some, but as the campus is closed to students, and he is not working daily.

Today shall henceforth be Quarantine Day 8, for simplicity’s sake.

I have been to the grocery twice in the past 8 days.  One of those was pickup.  Walmart has transitioned to not allowing one out of the car, not touching their signature device, and their workers are wearing gloves.  Usually I help load, so it is odd to sit there.  There is an automated limit of two on many items, for a family that uses three cans of soup for lunch and four gallons of milk a week, that is frustrating.  I have yet to find the ever elusive bathroom tissue...  Or the alcohol swabs Justin uses prior to his insulin injections.  We have some on hand, but a run on those items is discouraging.  I have also not been able to purchase a chicken from Walmart in the past two weeks, so an in person visit to Kroger is coming again soon.  I did score a turkey from Walmart.  It is thawing in the fridge.

Life here is...an odd kind of normal.  Since we home school, there are many things about our day that are normal, at least for now.  We rely heavily on our library for both history and literature.  I usually request our books three weeks at a time, the length of time we can keep books without renewal.  Thankfully I picked up all the books they had prepared for us early last week.  We did not pick up the last of them, as we opted to self quarantine.  The library closed on Monday.  We are in modern history, so we may spend time watching old press conferences if we need to stay in past three weeks.

For the odd part, save one or two days a week, we generally leave the house daily.  We have had to step back from so many things that used to fill our days.

We've
-Played Risk
-Washed the curtains
-Watched Remember the Titans (for school)
-Played Apples to Apples
-Cleaned the refrigerator
-Made a big dinner with chicken and all the trimmings...a mini Thanksgiving, complete with a ‘What are you thankful for?’
-Done school
-Recorded Justin's first online lesson
-Read so many memes
-Finished some previously started AHG badges (Tenderheart: Our Flag & Patriot: Creative Writing) and started more...here comes My Style
-Had push up Competitions
-Held virtual AHG meetings

Things to do in Quarantine...

The planned, the absurd, and the reality:

1. Homeschool 📖
2. Baking...if you can get ingredients 🧁
3. Discuss rationing, just in case...maybe just the toilet paper 🧻
4. Wash the curtains 🧼
5. Read all the books 📚
6. Sleep through documentaries 😴 📺
7. Fight with your brother or sister 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️🤷‍♀️
8. Learn a new skill 🤹‍♀️
9. Take up video editing of collegiate level courses, maybe that's just us... 🎬
10. Earn a badge (or several) for a youth organization 🏅
11. Convince your neighbors, via Nextdoor website, to have a chalk art show on the sidewalks in front of their homes 🖼
12. Backup your photos 📸
13. Clean out a room or closet 🧺
14. Drink extra coffee, since someone else is home, so you’re more likely to make extra ☕️
15. Play extra board games 🎲
16. Stalk stores for toilet paper 🧻
17. Finish a project 🛠
18. Plan some future trip 🚀
19. Write a letter 📝
20. Make a to-do list 🖌

Blessings,
Kristy

Crazy-ness

Just over week ago life was filled with a physical storm.  Then the storm of illness and disruption came.  It is such an odd place to be.  We had plans for a fun Spring Break, which we kept delaying, waiting for local schools to get back to session, since there is this virus going around (in case you haven’t heard—ha 🤣), but they never did.  And the news of the illness became more and more wide spread with requests that people stay home.

One by one our events have been canceled.  No swim, no AHG, no MOPS, no fundraiser breakfast, no Stars & Stripes ceremony, no church, work from home.  Our homeschool just expanded to include grades 13-16.  Our once busy schedule is empty.  I had picked up most of the books we need for the next three weeks of school, so we will have the normalcy of our school schedule.

Our family is largely not at risk; we know these precautions are for the care of others.  There are lots of questions though.  How long?  When will stores have paper goods again?  Should the low risk people have Coronavirus parties (not to be confused with Corona 🍻 parties), then self isolate, to establish herd immunity?  What next?

Friday Funny

The kids were discussing the dog (that we aren’t getting).

Ellie: We need a putt putt.

Katie: Why?

Ellie: Because they live longer.

Katie: Yeah puppies live longer.

Ellie: Not a puppy, a putt putt!

Katie: We know that you call puppies putt putts.

Ellie: No one ever understands.  A putt putt.  A putt putt lives longer.

Gabby: A mutt?

She wants a mutt...  Now our nonexistent pet dog, a mutt, big enough to go with Gabby on a walk, is named Putt Putt.

Sub 10 Minute Mile

Justin & Nate met Nate’s goal.  It was a long road, but they persevered.

Gabby (about Bellum, the guinea pig):  Her brain may be tiny, but she is a mastermind.