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Quarantine Day 33: Teaching, Turkey Soup & a Beautiful Day

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Tuesday. Today the kids woke up in from their family room camp out sleep over quite late. Around 8ish. We had breakfast - made some cinnamon apple sauce muffins with whole wheat flour, and then Naomi did her daily work on the computer. Tuesday's are the days that I have to work all day. I have google meet classroom conferences with all my classes. So once this started the kids were on their own! They played nicely in the basement for some of the time, the fought for some of the time, they checked in and visited my classes some of the time. It was pretty much a free for all today. It seems that our 'Mom School' schedule has totally gone out the window and we're just playing all day once our school work is done in the morning. And I'm ok with that. If they're occupied and happy, life is good. I plan 1 day a week where we're doing activities all day for a theme and that works for all of us. So when its nice out we play outside all day, when its rainy, we play in the basement and watch movies. Again, I'm ok with how this is going.
Teaching in my favorite office!

The kids ate lunch outside on the front porch. We put back our outdoor furniture and toys from the crazy wind from yesterday and cleaned out the water from the garage. We fixed the cold frame and put the plants back in it. Juliet rode her bike a bit and then her roller racer. Pip got lots of walks today. I taught classes outside in the sun. And Dad worked in his office, came out for lunch and  few walks to enjoy the beautiful weather today.

I made turkey soup on the stove from the carcass of the turkey we cooked last night. It simmered all day on the stove and made the house smell delicious! While dinner was cooking Naomi had her Spanish tutoring session and Juliet watched some of the Cirque du Soleil specials they are releasing on their YouTube channel once a week. At dinner we played several rounds of rat-a-tat-cat and uno and as it is Tuesday we watched Phish's 'Dinner and a Movie' live stream as we played games and even while we read a chapter of Harry Potter.

Overall a pretty 'normal' day for us. Some school work, some teaching, some work work, mostly playing and enjoying being outside and sister playmates!





Phish's Dinner & A Movie (Every Tuesday!)


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