Quarantine Day 30: Spring Clean up & Trolls World Tour

Today marks a month that we've been quarantined in our house!

Today Juliet woke up at 6:30am and watched tv by herself for 2 hours before the rest of the house woke up and came down stairs. Naomi slept until 8:30! I woke up at 7:30 because apparently I had an alarm set on my phone to go off then. Whoops!

We made cinnamon buns and hash browns (with the mixer shredder attachment) and eggs for breakfast. Then we got dressed and headed outside to do yard work. Naomi and Juliet helped me clip our grass plants. It was a lot of work. We had to trim them, rake up the trimmings and then wheel barrow them into the woods. After the first one Juliet sort of gave up and went and helped dad dig up dandelions. Naomi and I continued to trim the three in the front corner of the house and then the two smaller ones on the side of the house. We then dug 3 holes and divided the big ones by the corner of the house. This too was a lot of work. We had to get out dad's axe to divide the grass plants!

Dad raked the yard and then moved the snow blower under the deck. He then broke out the lawn mower to mow some of the grass that has started to get a bit out of control. This all took up pretty much the whole day.

This evening we watched Trolls World Tour that just came out yesterday, culminating in a dance marathon with meltdowns. They danced their way upstairs to brush and get ready for bed. Both girls are sleeping in sleeping bags in Juliet's room.

JP and I logged in to the Pratt family game night and played Quiplash. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time! It was good fun to get your mind off of the crazy world we are living in right now. I look forward to playing again next weekend!!

Grass plants transplanted!

Pip had fun outside all day with us

Family Game Night: Quiplash

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