Quarantine Day 34: Cosminoculars, Afternoon Snuggles, & Learning to Sew

Cosminoculars!

Today was a typical quarantine day. The kids woke up before us. JP got up first and made the kids breakfast. Naomi did her Wednesday must do work, which only took a half an hour. Juliet played in her room by her self most of the morning after cleaning up her room. I had a department meeting for half an hour and that was pretty much all of our work for the day. While I was at my meeting, the kids did yoga. Yoga has been hit or miss these days. Today it was a hit, they did it for an hour and a half!

At lunch we played a few games while we ate, rat-a-tat-cat and Uno. JP and I walked Pip after and the kids played more Uno. I tried to get Juliet to nap after but she was very chatty as we were laying in bed trying to sleep. Naomi came in to snuggle and nap too and this lead to fighting and kicking each other. So we switched gears and Juliet went and took a nice long tub by herself. And I taught Naomi how to use the sewing machine. We attempted to make a few masks, we managed 2 before I lost steam and patience. But Naomi enjoyed sewing random scraps of fabric together. She kept at it for quite a while. And when Juliet was done with her tub she came down and Naomi taught her how to sew too.

We had chili for dinner and then it was Naomi's turn for a tub. Juliet went up and helped her keep occupied by playing in the bathroom with her while JP and I cleaned up from dinner. Once clean up was done, JP worked on the computer/tv to hook up old school games with cheat codes...and we reminisced about the game genie cheat device for Nintendo that we used to have.

Afternoon snuggles...right before fighting.

Learning to sew.

The masks Naomi and I sewed.

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