where flowers bloom, so does hope ~ lady bird johnson  Day 17. This is really hard, being home with the boys working and schooling and keeping all of us busy and active.  I cant give 100% to my work, because I have to balance the boys.  I cant give 100% to their learning because I have to work.  I am making three meals...

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Life skills. Max's teacher has been encouraging the kids in class to do things that they normally do not do, learn to cook, cut the grass, change a light bulb.  Life skills.  And that is exactly what we have been doing around here. I showed Max how to use the leaf blower, which turned into thirty minutes of the boys shooting sticks and...

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Yesterday, Monday March 23rd, was a lazy day.  I wasnt feeling well and I was struggling with keeping the boys focused on school work.  I told them to bring out the Lego's.   Engineering 101.  They found the videos themselves, and the pieces as well.   We have a mini locomotive, airplane, helicopter, sailboat, race car, police car and logging truck.   I was pretty impressed...

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Friday afternoon, our state governor announced a 'stay at home' policy to hopefully increase the amount of social distancing.  This is to slow the spread of the Coronavirus.  By that time Friday I was physically and mentally exhausted.  My manager called and advised I do what I need to for myself and the boys - whether that was go to the grocery store...

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Needed to feel something other than dreary today.  I put the galoshes on and took a walk around the yard.  I love the feeling of new this time of year.  Dont ask me what was planted because I dont remember.  I have crocuses literally in every corner of the yard, yet none are flowering.  I will be busy digging them up when its...

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I'm currently binging on chocolate chips, drinking coffee in silence.  Well not total silence, the birds are up singing.  Makes my nature heart happy.  We've been social distancing now for eight days, and homeschooling/working from home for four.  Yesterday we hit a boiling point.  Between work frustrations and the boys off their normal schedule, I am not surprised Max has a fat lip,...

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Thanks to my manager at work who said I should start a blog on the doings in our house during this weird time of national emergency-lock-down-social-distancing.  The first six days of the Social Distancing Project we were still going to school and work.  Life was still 'normal'.    Its Friday, March 20th.  This month has flown by, surprisingly.  Not without struggle either.  Theo...

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Theo was part of a travel-lite hockey team this past season.  It gave us an introduction to what a travel team would feel like, and require from the player and the families.  We really enjoyed the team, great people.  I just know that for Theo and I, it'll be another year or so before we can commit to that level of hockey.  Its hockey...

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