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The kids wanted to dress up today so why not. I also wore my best glimmery Elvis-chic jumpsuit that I’d planned to wear to a conference. We did some homework, watched some Tiny House Nation, and blew bubbles outside. In the evening, 6 and I went for a long walk and there were lots ofContinue reading “The new normal”

DH (dear husband) using the neighbor’s tools to split the geode. After about 15 minutes, I said to him, “I hope this is a geode.”

Frankly it was a darn good day. Easy morning. I got an article written, and the kids and I got fluffies from my favorite coffee shop (drive through, natch). They played at the park and then we drove to the river for a picnic. They spent most of the afternoon blowing bubbles and playing withContinue reading “Lovely day”

Bless The Bloggess for writing this gem about Beyonce the Metal Chicken. Because knock knock mothereffer. I love this book too. In a similar, but more nuanced way to the Beyonce the Metal Chicken story.

It’s barely not chaos here. In spite of all the planning and organizing and care-taking to ensure an enriching quarantine environment, my little ingrates seem to hate everything and just want to watch Octonauts. Not unrelated: I googled the following today: Are vegimals real? So today consisted of an hour of morning snuggles with 4.5Continue reading “Dispatches from the trenches”