I had to do the math today because nine days both sounded like a lot and not very long.
I couldn't sleep again last night. I read in bed until after midnight, but when I went to lay down and sleep, I just couldn't get my brain to quiet down. I ended up staying up until 3am, but Thomas woke up at 3:30 am crying for me, so I ended up crashing with him until he woke up and then zombie walked to my own bed and slept until 10:30.
We spent the day inside again. It was freezing outside and gloomy. The boys played superheroes while Evan and I drank coffee and read/watched a Cubs game from 1988.
The girls have decided to start sending letters to their friends. They are alternating between handwriting them and typing them. It was sweet to watch Julia help Vivian type her letter. (If you receive letters from us, you know, just disinfect them and wash your hands and whatnot!)
There is a lot of baking going on in our house. This weekend it was Evan making sourdough bowls for our leftover soup and it was DELICIOUS! I am very thankful for our baking bread cookbook.
After lunch we watched Mass from our Parish's website.
I printed out coloring sheets that went with the readings from the Bible.
Not going to Mass today was really hard for me. They zoomed out to show the full church so we could see the priests leaving and it was so empty. It was sad and weird and it hurt to see pews that we normally have to kindly ask people to skooch over (because we are always running at least 5 minutes late and the church is always full, no matter the Mass time) completely empty. I ended up going up stairs to cry for a while. I miss going to church, I miss receiving Mass, I miss seeing our friends.
We have resurrected our old Wii and original X-box so the kids can play video games. The boys were THRILLED to find out Evan had a race car game.
The kids have started video chatting with friends! We don't have FaceTime, so it's been over FB messenger. They've also been old-school talking on the phone. Like, just talking. They love that, too.
Here's my menu plan for the week:
I went to the Walmart app on my phone to put a few more things in my cart and went to see how far out I could reserve a time. They had no openings and weren't offering anything into the future. They said to check daily for future time slots. I'm not going to worry about that today (or tomorrow), but I had planned on making another grocery run at the end of the month, which is only 9 days away. But, as we all know, a lot can happen in nine days, so maybe I'll be able to place an order by then.
Oh, and it snowed today.
We caught up on our art from McHarper Manor (air dry clay animals!) and are ready to create art with them next week. Discovering them has definitely been a huge blessing in all of this.
We nixed making pancakes for dinner and decided on popcorn, a veggie tray, and chocolate chip cookies that Julia made. We also ate in the living room while watching Lego Masters.
I'm really glad he's so happy. He's probably loved us all being home together the mostest. He's definitely a homebody and likes having all of his people together where he can keep tabs on them.
Tonight when I was laying with Thomas, waiting impatiently for him to shut up long enough to actually fall asleep, he kept asking me what tomorrow was, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day. It's a game he loves to play (because he likes hearing the days of the week in order), but it was making me feel a little anxious because just saying those days back to him, knowing we're still going to be in this house, quarantined, not knowing what the future holds or when definite answers are going to appear, made me feel trapped (well, that and the fact that Thomas insists on holding the face of the person who is putting him to bed, and that also feels claustrophobic-y).
But, you know what, there's nothing you can do with unknowns. You can only focus on what you do know; with what is right in front of you. So, here's what I know:
-Evan has set up an office in our room with his monitors and laptop from work. He has to get work done, but he can come eat lunch with us and take a break as needed, and the kids like seeing him home during the day. I can also move dinner time up a bit (therefore moving bedtime up a bit) because Evan is already home, so I'm not having to wait for him to pack up and head home from his office.
-We were already homeschooling. Our schedule doesn't change except we don't have our science classes or co-op (which is a huge thing we miss). I am just going to keep going with our planned curriculum and add in the resources being so generously offered by people trying to help all of these kids having to do be home instead of at school.
-We have a great back yard and a beautiful neighborhood with sidewalks. It's one of the reasons we house hunted in this area. Starting tomorrow, unless the weather is unbearable, we're going to carve time to be outside moving.
-I have menu planned and we're good with food right now. I don't need to think about stores or grocery shopping again for a while.
-We have friends and family to lean on; who pray for us as we are praying for them; who miss us like we miss them.
-We will take it one day at a time. There's nothing else we can do.
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