Week 3: Quarantine Life

Hi Foxy Friends! Another week past, the days seem to all be the same. I feel like we really are living Groundhogs Day...anyone else?

Monday, March 30th, started our 2nd week of distance learning. We're getting into the groove of it, and it's a bit better now that the kids know what to expect. After doing some zoom conference calls with their teachers, we finished up the birthday sign for a friend that was doing a drive by our house. Happy we could bring a little happiness in a quarantine birthday.

After some more work and end of the school day, we went to the park to get some sunshine and bike riding, and I actually put make up on, first time in over 2 weeks, felt sort of nice.

The basketball court was taken, so we played some football. Mini Fox was all the time offense. Here are the kids plotting out their play against me.

Mini Fox is a little beast, she tackled Baby Fox, haha.

Have I told her she came up with her own WWE name...The Worm. She came up with it a few years ago, and refers to herself in the third person when she is "The Worm". She's fearless.

Baby Fox has been working on his basketball game, and is getting better each day.

Tuesday another good friend had a birthday so we were able to use the same sign, shhh, don't tell them we did. We changed out the name and some decorations, but it worked out. We drove over to their house to drop it off in the front yard before breakfast.

After we got back, we ate breakfast and did some school work.

Lunch time.

The kids have laid out this blanket next to me and have dubbed it the ST Math corner...I have no idea why they like laying on a hard surface to do math work, but hey, whatever works for them. When it is sunny out, the sun is right there and they love that.

April 1st, the kids have been planning this prank for the last year! Last year they found out you can play tricks on each other and they came up with this a year ago. They had me switch them in their beds, so when Mr. went to wake them up they would be in the wrong beds. They thought it was hilarious.

Tricking Daddy is their favorite. They kept waiting for a trick on them. Mr. moved each other's stuffed animals into the others room, they didn't like that, haha!

Snapped a photo of the kids in the ST Math corner.

After school and work we headed to the park again. When I got dressed Mini Fox saw what I was wearing and put on the same thing, so cute.

Then she wanted some pictures of just her.

Mini Fox has been OBSESSED with Mr.'s robe. Wearing it everywhere, and even using it as covers at night. Plus she has also figured out how to wrap her hair in a towel...are we sure she's just 6?

Thursday was my and Mr.'s 15th wedding anniversary. Definitely didn't celebrate how we normally would, but happy to be with family and all healthy.

Baby Fox did his first karate Zoom lesson, seemed to work out pretty well.

 

Just after we put the kids to bed, we snapped a picture, had to document we were actually together on our anniversary. Mr. ended up going to Trader Joe's and bought all of my favorite cheeses and some yummy goodies, like chocolate covered pretzels, my favorite peanut butter cups and a cheesecake, yum!

Friday was my day off, so while the kids were in their zoom conferences, I talked with my mom. Does anyone else get this view when talking to their parents?

I felt like our vacuum hasn't been working great for a while now. But hadn't had time to try and fix it. Last week I took out all of the filters and washed them and waited for them to dry and put them back in. It helped a bit, but didn't really work. Mr. then stepped in and worked on it, and I told him I thought it had something to do with the hose, but there were no holes or leaks...he ended up using our shop vac to try and get some stuff he saw in there...and out popped this guy! Vacuum all fixed, and I couldn't be happier. I vacuumed to my hearts content, it's the small things in life...

I made this shirt for myself after seeing it, and my friend wanted me to make her one too, so she bought a sweater and had it sent to my house and I made her one too.

Friday night we did our weekly girls zoom meeting, we all look forward to Friday nights for sure. Not sure what I thought was so amazing, haha!

Saturday we decided to get a change of scenery and go to a different park that had a big field and what we thought was a small forest behind it to walk around in. We really thought it was just a garden of some sort, turns out it's a HUGE hiking area with at on of trails. We brought the kids bikes, so they biked around while we walked and it worked out great. There weren't too many people so we were able to keep our distance and it was nice to get out of our house and our park.

Often times the kids would be up ahead of us and would stop every once in a while for us to catch up, this time they decided it was snack time.

We were looking for this maze, and after a bit we found it.

Saw Mama, Dad and baby duckies.

After we got home, I tried to  make some face masks, and we watched Onward on Disney+ and it was super cute.

Sunday we watched Palm Sunday from our church at home. Palm Sunday is my favorite day to attend church.

Cuddling while attending church isn't too bad though.

Sunday was sort of a lazy day, but at 1pm, we had a friend gift us a character chat and it was so cool. The kids picked a Storm Trooper and got 10 minute to talk to him. It was pretty awesome.

We tried to go to the park, but I felt like there were too many people there, so we came home and spent some time in the backyard.

My face masks cutout...each time gets a bit better. I think third times the charm and after my third one I'll have it down.

So that ends week 3 of this quarantine. This week is Spring Break and I really can't wait to not have to do school stuff. Now if only this rain would go away so the kids can go outside to enjoy their Spring Break a bit.

Week 1 Of Quarantine

Hey Foxy Friends! It's been a bit weird to say the least. I figured that I started this blog way back when as a way to remember this strange way of life we're finding ourselves in. So let's start from Thursday March 12th. Mr. had a poker game, and they were all talking about when they thought school would be canceled. One of the guys said two weeks, Mr. said less than that. It was less than 24 hours they cancelled going to school, our football game was also cancelled, mostly because it was raining and the fields were muddy. We decided to hang out with some friends for dinner, we hadn't done Friday dinner in a while, due to sports. Saturday we decided to hang out again for dinner. Sunday was Mr.'s birthday and we decided against going to church, trying to avoid large crowds, like at church. We cancelled Mr.'s birthday dinner with my parents, they are in their mid-70's and we just didn't know. Figured better be safe than sorry.

Mr. and I woke up early to try and get Yosemite Camping site for July-August time frame...we were successful! Woo hoo! Let's hope we can go at the end of July!

My 6:45am bed head...glamorous, but we got a camp site!

Kids making cards for Daddy.

Mini Fox made a birthday badge.

We went to the park for a bit, just to get out of the house.

I made Mr.'s favorite cake, Carrot Cake and made some Japanese Curry for dinner.

Mini Fox found some decorations in the pantry.

Monday I worked from home to we could figure out what was happening with school and Mini Fox's teacher had gathered their supplies they brought in to make their Leprechaun traps. I think Mini Fox was most upset about leaving her good supplies at school, as we had no idea when they left school that they wouldn't be returning for a while.

We wanted to make this time fun for the kids, so we created our own school, we named it, and created shirts, a schedule, get them excited for doing school at home.

Their shirts, they came up with the logo and everything. So cute. We had some workbooks that we were going to use for summer, so we brought them out now to use. Their school district hadn't set anything up as far as school.

Tuesday I had to go to work to finish up some things and let work know I probably wouldn't be back to work for a while. Meanwhile Mr. C (what the kids decided to call Mr. instead of Dad during school hours).

They came up with a schedule.

Hard at work all week.

We only had a couple of workbooks, so we did some art classes from YouTube.

Got some exercise in too.

Climbed some trees.

March 19th my favorite workout duo started doing online live classes, so excited to at least get my favorite workout in, even if it's just at home.

This girl joined me for a little bit.

She decided to get fancy for school today, her favorite skirt because it's long, wasn't that your favorite when you were her age?

Friday the pool guy came and she got one last snuggle before we decided it was best if we don't touch anyone's pet any more.

Some math work.

We've been going to our park once a day so the kids can get some fresh air. We also decided to not let the kids play on the play structure or in the tree (see above picture), so she brought some art to work on.

More art when we got home.

Then we opened a stuffed animal surgery center. Go see this post for more details, but every once in a while a few stuffed animals have ripped so I try to get them all fixed. The kids made signs, it was the cutest.

Also for fun Friday we made cookies:

Tip: We only made half of them, then froze the rest in the little balls, that way you can have fresh made cookies whenever you want. Cook them at about 50° less than normal and for a bit longer, since they are frozen, come out great every time. I even cook them in my toaster oven.

Freeze on sheet first.

Then put in baggie and stick back in freezer, that way you can separate them really easily.

Friday night I had my first Zoom meeting with some friends, it was so nice chatting with people in the same situation.

Saturday Mini Fox had a horseback riding lesson. We figured that she is the only one in the lesson that it would be okay...it was nice getting out of the house.

One of the horses had a cute little pony, so cute.

After we got back from horseback riding and all showered up, we started watching Lord of the Rings.

Sunday a friend was doing a live PiYo class that I joined in on.

We decided since we weren't going to church that we would do the kids Religious Education stuff with them, girl decided to watch in a Ninja costume.

Part of that was to go outside and see what living things we could find. After we finished that the kids wanted to enjoy the backyard a bit.

Samantha living her best life.

The kids decided to play some catch, the ball went into the pool a lot.

She really wanted to go swimming, but the temp in the pool is in the low 60's.

Then we headed to the park for a bit, Samantha went along for the ride.

We ended the park with some down hill speed racing.

Also, this Meme made me laugh way to hard this week.

So that ends week 1. In our home school for their journal we asked them how they felt at the end of week 1. This is what Baby Fox said:

I feel bored this past week. I feel good because I got better at basketball. I feel like I am having fun. I like the schedule. I don't like the work, kinda. I like going to the park.

This is what Mini Fox said:

I feel happy this past week. It is a fun school. I like it because it is at home.

I consider that a win. We want them to look back on this time with fond memories instead of the uncertainty that all of the adults are feeling. I hope you are all staying safe and getting some social interaction via Zoom when you can. I really can change your whole day knowing you are going to talk to friends later that night.