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Quarantine Day 36: Fancy Friday

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Fancy Friday!
Friday's used to be a relief from the work week, excited for the weekend, but now they're just another day really. To mix it up we had 'Fancy Friday' at our house where the kids and I dressed up fancy! The girls put on dresses and their 'good jewelry' and I put on a dress and some fun earrings and did my hair up fancy. We wore our fancy outfits all day! In the morning we made waffles in our fancy outfits. The kids played with their stuffies in their fancy outfits. We walked the dog in our fancy outfits.

Naomi did her daily work, which takes her all of 30 minutes to do. And then her and Juliet played nicely together all day. While they were playing I did some grading and checking in with some students, teachers and the NHS principal - in my fancy outfit of course!

After that I just didn't feel like doing anything, it was one of those days. I felt like eating chocolate and taking a nap for the rest of the day. The kids just wanted to watch TV after a while and we all just vegged. JP finally got us all up and out the door to walk the dog to get us out in the fresh air and moving. I think we're all feeling a bit blah at this point. We've been at our house together for 36 days. And in any other circumstance I think I'd be excited about it. There are so many house projects I'd like to do, but we can't go to the store to get materials. There are many art projects that I want to do but finding the time to myself has been impossible. It seems that we are fortunate enough to have this time to be together to decompress and spend time with family, but the kids sometimes just want to play on their own, and some of the family stuff we never get to do, we've been doing for 36 days! We play games at lunch almost every day, and game night used to be a novelty! We've done every puzzle we have in the closet at least once and played almost every game we have at least twice. Which is great! But I think some of this might be getting old for the kids. So JP and I have been curating a list of classic movies to show them a couple of times a week in the evening. Some of our favorites as kids, some of them hold up and some are pretty dated, but they love watching them. The theme Thursdays are a good way to mix up the week but I can't handle more than once a week for that with work and all.

As it is Friday of the beginning of April vacation week, we were supposed to be flying out to Florida to Disney World tomorrow morning. The kids have known for a while now that we are not going due to COVID-19 and quarantine. Disney World is closed so we couldn't even go if we wanted to! They have been such great sports about it though. I think I'm more devastated than them. Mostly because I put a lot of work and research into our trip, the plan, the fast passes, our matching outfits! JP did all the leg work on finding the best place to stay and getting our flight. So this evening the kids packed a bag of clothes before they went to bed for their 'trip.' They said that we'll pretend to go to Disney this whole week. So tomorrow we're going to 'fly' to Disney. Juliet already said she wanted to be the pilot and found an empty cardboard box that is going to be the plane. So on top of this crazy week we are going to pretend that we are visiting each Disney park as if we were going there. This was all the kids idea. For now they are having a sleepover in the family room with their packed bags, gearing up for tomorrow!
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