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 2 of Quarantine Life

Hi Foxy Friends! So I cheated a little and back blogged a bit. I know, I know, not supposed to do that but, I really wanted to document this time in our lives and didn't want this post to be 5 million pictures. Instead I share 2 million with you. Haha, just kidding shouldn't be that many.

This is the first week we started distance learning with the school. Friday I picked up some  chromebooks for the kids. Our school was lending them out, so I went to the last session and asked if they had enough that I could get some too. It's nice having them each have their own device. Monday was a bit rough, trying to figure out all of the different mediums that the work was being assigned from...but each day they zoom their class and get a little instruction from the teacher.

By the end of day 1 we got it figured out and it was pretty smooth sailing the rest of the week. Our days pretty much go breakfast, school, lunch, school, park, baths, dinner. Monday Mini Fox brought Samantha with us and wanted to take some pictures of her.

Every year we take pictures with the flower fields, usually we head down to the Carlsbad Flower Fields, last year we went to our friends backyard because their backyard had a super bloom. This year we were going to head to Carlsbad again, but no can do now...I need to find some flowers...Mini Fox and I went on a little hike so I could figure out if these yellow weeds would do the job, beggars can't be choosers, haha.

She posed herself this way...actually she posed herself in all of the pictures.

Silly girl, we were on an adventure to find a really good view of the city, but didn't get far as these yellow weeks were so tall we couldn't see over any of them for the view...we didn't get very far in our hike...100 ft or so, haha.

Tuesday this girl did her hair and everything, had to snap a picture before school started.

Mr. decided to go in the spa and she joined in. I was going outside to take a picture but she was getting out, darn. But they had fun. Wish is was warm enough to go swimming in the pool, but it's not quite there yet.

Tuesday they had their first zoom meeting with some friends. Mini Fox was telling her friends she had her first loose tooth and one of the friends was giving instructions on how to pull it out. She said, wiggle it back and forth and then twist. Two seconds after she said that, Mini Fox says, my tooth came out!!! Well that was easy!

The kids were a little bummed that we weren't in school because if you loose a tooth at school the nurse has some cute bags to give the kids to hold their tooth. Mr. bought this bag for our home school, so dang cute.

We finished the night out be finishing Lord of the Rings 3.

Wednesday I took my meeting from my room because Mini Fox had her Zoom call at the same time. Can't really beat the nice view.

The kids started following this Lego challenge, and the first day was to make a derby car...here they are racing them. This took up a good chunk of the day.

Lunch was sunflower seed butter and jelly, apples and chips.

Mr. has also always wanted a bidet...this was the perfect excuse to get one, so he ordered it pretty much at the start of this quarantine and it arrived on Wednesday and he installed it. Jury is still out if I like it or not, but him and the kids love it. BTW, this one is just the toilet seat, we used our existing toilet...so we had an electrician put in a outlet on Monday, then Mr. installed the toilet seat on Wednesday. When he told me he was going to install on his own, I was thinking the whole toilet...nope just the seat.

Before school started on Thursday the kids decided to play a game of chase/throw stuffed animals at each other. This is how they got ready...

He said the neck pillow was for protection....

Of course she had to get dressed up. She's holding a bag of balls, not sure where she got the bag or the balls, but she had them. Also please note, that I never tell her how to pose, she does that on her own.

Lunch for Thursday. Yep carb filled this day, gotta let them think they have a win for one day.

Park time today, her dolls were not social distancing, she said it was okay because they live together.

Kids decided to play some baseball in the backyard, but they lost two balls over the fence, so they switched to golf.

Friday, Mini Fox's teacher set up a Fun Friday dance party, so cute.

We started playing this clippy game. Yep, see that small clothes pin? The person that is it, secretly clips it to someone's clothes then laugh when you get away with it because they are now it. I always loose at this game, I'm almost always the last person of the evening to get it...haha.

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This girl discovered her warm spot in the house, she's been laying in it while doing work. She's like a puppy, or a cat.

Moved onto ST math.

Fun Friday this week, we decided to make homemade ice cream with brownies in it.

I think it turned out pretty good. The kids gave it two thumbs up.

Just as I was putting the kids down to bed, I got an email with this say on a sweater, I decided to quickly make it before our Zoom Meeting. Turned out really great, considering I put it together in less than an hour. One of the ladies is sending me a sweater so I can make it for her too.

I needed this one tonight, had a rough start to the morning and ended up going for a run to blow of steam. But it helped knowing I had this meeting later.

Saturday morning did my favorite workout class via FB live. Then she helped me make some over night waffle mix, so we could eat them on Sunday.

Here it is before going into the fridge.

We decided it was such a nice day outside to BBQ some hamburgers and eat outside, it was the first really nice day since this whole quarantine thing started.

We didn't have any lettuce or tomatoes to put on it, but did have some onions so I carmalized some onions...can I tell you how good they were? So dang good, didn't even notice the missing veggies on the burger.

Then we laid out and enjoyed the sunshine.

She decided it was too sunny, really putting her all into opening the umbrella.

She cracks me up...coincidentally she grabbed a magazine called Family Escapes...if only we could little one.

I took a nice little nap on the chair too, it was nice to relax in the backyard. Then we headed to our once a day outing to the park. This girl decided she was going to do gymnastics and try to do a handstand to bridge.

Pretty impressive.

Saturday I made some Jjajangmyeon, which is a Korean Black Bean Sauce with noodles. It's delicious. No pictures of it though, oops. Mr. thought it was so good, he's never had it before and I think I finally got it perfect. I've been trying to make it when he's traveling since I was trying out different recipes. We also watched the first Thor.

Sunday I made the waffles. This is what it looked like coming out of the fridge. 

Then you stir until smooth.

Kids thought they were just okay, not their favorite...now we have a lot of waffles to get through.

Sunday after we watched a recording of our Church's Mass, we watched the real live Lion King, I love that this kid still cuddles me.

Then we headed to the park, which I forgot my phone. Then we came back showered and tried to watch the iHeart Radio Living Room concert, but our antenna wasn't cooperating with us.

We ended up watching the second movie in Thor and eating dinner. Perfect way to end week 2.

How are you all holding up being at home all the time. It feels weird to leave the house or drive at this point, as Mr. is doing all the grocery trips for us.