I will be documenting our experiences, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve this time at home together. Although the world is a very scare place at the moment, I want to be intentional about our days at home together and provide my children with the story of what it was we lived through. Day One for us was Monday, March 16th (I’m counting down starting with the first day our regular schedules were disrupted) — the first day the girls didn’t report to school. I cried in the grocery store yesterday. I was wearing latex gloves and picking out a birthday card for my almost ten year old daughter. Everywhere I looked there were people in masks and yellow tape on the floor marking six foot distances. There was a repeating message on the loudspeaker warning of close contact and the ...
Quarantine Diary | Days Three, Four, + Five
I will be documenting our experiences, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve this time at home together. Although the world is a very scare place at the moment, I want to be intentional about our days at home together and provide my children with the story of what it was we lived through. Day One for us was Monday, March 16th (I'm counting down starting with the first day our regular schedules were disrupted) -- the first day the girls didn't report to school. Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Despite the major disruption in our lives in the previous few days, Wednesday felt like the first day I was in complete control. Orangetheory had closed a few days prior, but I had been working out in the office of my basement, in an attempt to keep things as normal as possible. When I arrived at ...
Quarantine Diary | Day Two
I will be documenting our experiences, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve this time at home together. Although the world is a very scare place at the moment, I want to be intentional about our days at home together and provide my children with the story of what it was we lived through. Day One for us was Monday, March 16th (I'm counting down starting with the first day our regular schedules were disrupted) -- the first day the girls didn't report to school. Tuesday, March 17, 2020 During my commute on Monday, we got word that the counties where I live and work would be limiting gatherings of more than twenty people. They also announced closure of all restaurants and establishments, except for takeout and delivery. We feared that a limit on the number of people allowed in the ...
Quarantine Diary | Day One
I will be documenting our experiences, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve this time at home together. Although the world is a very scare place at the moment, I want to be intentional about our days at home together and provide my children with the story of what it was we lived through. Day One for us was Monday, March 16th (I'm counting down starting with the first day our regular schedules were disrupted) -- the first day the girls didn't report to school. Monday, March 16, 2020 I've been trying to figure out how to blog more often and also how best to share during this very bizarre time of our lives. Since I now have a lot more extra time on my hands, I decided to share something akin to diary entries for the duration of our quarantine period (or after, depending on how ...
Hello, Friday [March 13, 2020]
I had planned to share a post with a few new-to-me favorite products today, but it feels pretty disingenuous to ask you to shop. Maybe I'll get that scheduled for next week or maybe I'll hold off on that for the foreseeable future. Either way, why don't we just do a brain dump post today instead? I've been missing this space so much (I know I say that pretty much every time I post) and I come up with lists of things I want to write about, but it's really hard to find the time. Between my obligations for the Birmingham Mom's Blog and keeping my kids alive, I'm struggling to post more than once a week. I'm not sure you'll get any award winning content any time soon, but I am trying. Josh was traveling for work at the beginning of this week. We were both hoping the trip would be ...
Upstairs Progress
When we first started talking about renovating my parents' house, our circumstances were quite different. There were no plans to expand our family and everyone would have their own room. Given those facts, I felt sure we could finish the entire thing in 6-9 months. Clearly, I was suffering from temporary insanity. The hardest part about finishing the girls' rooms has been working around naps and bedtime. Before the time changed, Polly was in bed at 6 o'clock every night and we could only work on "quiet projects." Guess what? There aren't actually any projects that are quiet. Not a single one. I honestly thought we'd have the whole thing painted and ready for carpet in a few weekends and we're currently sitting at a few months. More than anything, this has taught us to really scale ...
Currently | March 2020
I thought that February would surely be kinder to us than January, but boy was I wrong. I've taken more sick days in 2020 than I did in 2019 (!!!) and my budget for copays and prescriptions was grossly undersized. We are finally all on the mend, but we accomplished almost nothing on our list from February. Can we get a do-over? fixing | We've been fixing a few minor roof problems over the last few weeks and I think we are finally in the clear. We noticed a small leak upstairs (after painting the girls' ceilings, of course) and it seems our attic vents needed a new round of caulk and tar. Progress upstairs has been slow going (working around naps and bedtimes isn't easy!), but we're almost ready to put the girls' rooms back together. hearing | Polly is very into sounds right now, ...
Currently | February 2020
A week later is better than never, right? I realized yesterday that I never took or shared a photo of our living room on the first of the month. There have been times when I was a day or two late (since I don't post on Instagram every day), but never eleven! We've been spending all of our free time working in the girls' rooms and I just haven't had much else to share -- or the time to share it. I would like to note that despite the horrible photo quality, it's a huge achievement that my Christmas tree is not in this photo. It was definitely still hanging around on January 1 and it was questionable whether or not I would get it down before February rolled around. It's too late to link up with Anne (whomp, whomp), but I haven't missed a Currently post in quite a long time, so I decided ...