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Quarantine Day 23: Redecorating & Baba's Birthday

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Today I woke up and rolled over to look at the clock. I picked up my phone and it said 10:35. JP was still asleep... yikes! We slept WAY in! The kids had been watching tv since 7am! By the time JP and I rolled out of bed and went downstairs it was 11:30! The kids were playing the Wii at this point, LEGO Indiana Jones.

I made breakfast, I mean brunch and we FaceTimed with Baba to with him a happy birthday! It's weird not being able to get together on a Saturday (or any day at this point) for someone's birthday! After chatting with him and Nana we also video chatted with Great Nana to make sure she was doing ok.

The rest of the day we focused on making a home office for JP to work in because the kids and I are not very quite and it's hard to have conference calls in our house! We moved the desk from our living room to the guest room. We had talked about this a bit and when JP went out last week to BJ's to stock up on food he got one of those mats for the rug so the chair can roll around. So he has a nice quiet place to work, hopefully comfortably, for the next few weeks. He can even use the 5 draw dresser for a standing desk if he gets tired of sitting!

We have an old desktop iMac that we are trying to salvage for Naomi to do her schoolwork on. I want JP to rebuild it but it has all of our old photos on it. So at the moment he is copying all the photos over to his server and then he's going to attempt to but Chrome OS on it. Naomi has a nice desk that is part of her bunk bed that I think would be good for her to work on her classwork if we can get this computer to function!

I made a little reading nook - Harry Potter theme of course - in the living room where the desk used to be. One of these days when the LEGOs and other kids toys are out of the living room we'll make it into a nice space and put on french doors to class it up a bit!

JP has a nice WFT space, we're cleaning up Naomi's room for her and I think I'll end up working in the basement in my make shift studio if it isn't too cold when I'm teaching next week. Not sure how I got the basement...maybe I'll use the fun new reading nook as a work space if the basement is too cold.

In the evening we did a group chat and sang to Baba for his birthday. It was really quite comical trying to get everyone on the chat. We tried to get Great Nana Mimi in too but for some reason her video wasn't working. But the kids and I dressed up in fun costumes to celebrate! Everyone was hungry so we all hung up and made dinner. Our crew had dinner and a movie night. We watched Raiders of the Lost Ark with the kids. JP was worried that it was too scary for them, but they had just played that video game this morning so I thought it would be ok...we'll see how many times they get out of bed tonight to say they are scared.



Notes:
Article with numbers about how much the president has screwed up this pandemic.

Tomorrow's goal: clean off Naomi's Desk, rebuild iMac, ride bikes - get Juliet off training wheels!

MCU movie tonight: Ragnarok.





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