COVID-19 ~Week 3~

Week 3 was our best week yet! We were on a great schedule that kept the kids busy and entertained and made my life so much easier. It took the constant, "I'm bored! What can I do?" out of our day. 

Homemade play dough was a favorite this week. All 3 girls played with it every single day.

We've continued piano lessons and daily practice. Now that they have nothing else filling their day they have a lot of time to practice and are making great progress.

We've had lots and lots of crafting going on. Eva is a rubberband bracelet expert. She makes them all day every day.

Maya has watched half a million rubberband bracelet tutorials and can make some really awesome ones!

Maya also really got into crocheting which makes me sooo happy! She decided that she wanted to learn to make a beanie so she found a tutorial and made a beanie! I was so proud of her.

I have always LOVED all crafty things and nothing makes me happier than seeing my girls love it too!

Aidan isn't much of a crafter so he spends most of his free time messaging his friends or playing video games with them.

The kids have been doing a lot more daily chores since they have more free time and since they also make a lot more messes. Aidan and Eva do chores too, I just didn't catch them.

Sunday was General Conference. I caught all 3 girls crocheting in the morning but the best part was Maya teaching Eva how to crochet!

Eva caught on and spent a lot of time listening to conference and improving her new craft.

COVID-19 ~Week 2~

Social distancing continues and precautions begin to escalate. The clinic implemented a new schedule so the pharmacy staff is split into 2 teams, each consisting of 1 pharmacist and 2 techs. Each team will work every other day in order to limit their risk of exposure. This way if one team is exposed and have to be quarantined, the other team is still healthy and available to take over. They've done the same with the doctors in the clinic.

This is the week that basically everything on base shut down. They closed the gym, the library and began limiting who can shop at the commissary. At the commissary there is still no toilet paper and when they do get a shipment in, they have security forces guarding it, making sure that people are only taking one per customer. It's the same with the meat.

What has week 2 of social distancing looked like for us?

FHE treats

Game nights

Lots of Lily snuggles

Country road runs

Still working on our Totoro puzzle

Finished!

Aidan decided to finally learn the ukulele he got for his birthday 3 years ago.

Maya got a much needed haircut.

Rich can't sit still and always has to have a project. He decided to make planters!

Maya made strawberry cheesecake.

We've been having Pizza, Ice Cream & Movie night every Friday night for over 3 years. We all still look forward to it and nobody is sick of my pizza yet.

On Saturday we attending a friends baptism in our very own living room. It was a unique and special experience.

We ended our week with at home church which included Rich and Aidan blessing and passing the sacrament...

Eva getting super fancy to lead the music.

And a special musical number by the girls.

Week 2 of quarantine was when I decided the kids and I needed a schedule/routine. We implemented one near the end of the week and it made such a big difference in our productivity and making our day run smoother. Really getting into our groove and appreciating the blessing that all of this extra time together is.