Today I had a hard time getting up and at 'em! By the time I rolled out of bed it was a few minutes after 9! I raced downstairs to get Naomi on the computer for her Monday morning class with her teacher. The kids were playing nicely with the dolls in the doll house. JP was already 'at work' in the office and I guess he never went downstairs this morning so the kids were just hanging out on their own! Parenting has gotten a bit lax these last few days/weeks!I made the kids some breakfast that they could eat while they were working. Juliet hopped on the iPad to see the new video that Stephanie posted. Once Naomi's class was over she worked on her 3 assignments. While the kids were working the wind was ripping. The front porch chairs were blowing and so were the slides. I ran outside and got the chairs and put them in the garage so they wouldn't blow away. Juliet came out and helped gather some of the other stuff that was flying away. One of the windows of the cold frame blew off and shattered on the grass. I left the plants there for the time being.
After the kids were done with their work, I needed them to help me with one of my assignments. I am having the kids recreate a famous painting this week. I first saw this on instagram with the hashtag #tussenkunstenquarantaine, but the Getty Museum posted the same challenge too. I wanted to make an example for my students, so I looked for an image that had 2 girls and a mom in it that I thought we could recreate. I found a painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Madam Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878). This image was perfect for us to recreate. So we went and changed into our costumes, set up the camera and practiced our poses. It only took 3 takes to get a good one! I think we'll look for more of these to do because it was so fun!
After that JP and I prepared the turkey that he had bought at BJ's last week. We thought this would be a good day to have the oven on as it was rainy and raw all day. Juliet helped mix up the rub and JP covered it in the rub. Juliet also helped make the squash soufflé and we were going to also make a green bean casserole, but when Juliet went out to the garage to look for more cans of green beans, she couldn't find any. But she did find that the rain had leaked in under the garage door onto all the shelf stable food we were storing there. So we hurriedly got all the food out of the water and into the mudroom and dried it off. Nothing was ruined, just some of the cardboard packaging of the cereal, but the food inside was fine. We threw out all the wet cardboard and found places for the food in the kitchen. 
One of the foods in the garage was a bag of mini marshmallows. I had intended to use this when we did our Space Theme Day. The kids were going to make constellations out of mini marshmallows and toothpicks. We ended up doing this today after our photoshoot instead! The kids looked at the stars in the sky with the app Star Chart to find the different constellations to create. I showed them an example of one and how to do it and then they were off!! I left them doing this to jump on a conference call with my director and then a faculty meeting. The kids played nicely after they were done with the marshmallow activity.
Around 3:30 we took the turkey out of the oven and it had to sit 30 minutes to rest and still cook. This way I could put the squash into the oven and the matzah ball soup on the stove to begin cooking. As the oven closed, we lost power. So we jumped into action and got the generator out and hooked up. We moved my car out of the garage and ran the generator in the garage with the garage doors open 1/3 of the way and the windows open. I ran around getting the plants out of the cold frame and into the garage and moved the other glass window of the cold frame onto the grass so it wouldn't blow off and break too. Once the generator was up and running the squash was back in the oven cooking away. The kids enjoyed the darkness for a minute and ran around looking for flashlights!We ended up carving the turkey and eating dinner early this evening, around 5pm. It was such a yummy meal. And we have SO much leftover for this week! That makes lunches and dinner a bit easier when we've got yummy easy leftovers! Even though we have time now to make nice dinners, it still feels rushed or a hassle! I really like cooking dinner but I'm still tired at the end of the day and don't have any brain power left to think about cooking. I think its draining trying to work and constantly mom and homeschool the kids. They require constant attention at times, but then other times they are fine.
As we ended dinner early, I was cleaning up and JP had to work tonight, the kids were playing nicely. And the power went out. The generator ran out of gas and shut off, just as JP was getting started with his evening conference all. Ugh. So he hung up and filled the generator with more gas. And then ran out with the kids to the gas station to get more! They enjoyed going out of the house and taking a drive. They looked to see who had power and who didn't as well as looking at all the down trees! Of course when they got back, the power had been fixed by eversource and we didn't even need the generator anymore! I'm glad we have it and I'm glad it worked because dinner would not have been much if it hadn't!I had mentioned that if we didn't have power we might all camp out in the family room with the fireplace on tonight. Well of course the kids LOVED that idea and ran up to get their sleeping bags! Even though we have power now, they are still sleeping in the family room tonight! We'll see how much sleep they get!
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| Thanksgiving dinner! It seems like we've been quarantined this long! |
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| Camping out in the family room! |
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