2020 Blue Jeans Week 14

What a stressful, crazy time!  Miss E said the other day, "we will be able to tell people 'We survived CO-VID 19'"  yes, this will be a historic event for sure that we will be talking about for a long time.  We are healthy and doing well.  Ben still has a job, so that is a blessing.  "Home schooling" week one was last week, and I think it went pretty well.  We are grateful we can walk outside and go to the nature trails close to our house.  Still playing a game every day, and that has been good.  Ben is also reading a book out loud to us.  We just finished Brandon Sanderson's Star Sight, and we started Harry Potter #1 last night just for fun.  Can't go wrong with those books, and it has been a while since we read them.  So much to be thankful for!  Hope you all are safe and well!  Stay home, wash your hands and stay healthy!  Take a look at our week...

We played the board game Pandemic today.  It is a cooperative game.  First time we played it we lost in 5 minutes, so we played again and actually WON the 2nd time we played.  Feeling optimistic that we can beat this thing!

Are they doing bear hunts where you live?  They are in our area.  You put out a teddy bear and then kids can walk around and go on a "bear hunt" (based on the children's book Going On a Bear Hunt) in the neighborhoods and find them in people's windows.  I have seen a lot of bears out.  This is ours.  

Spring is here and the trees are blossoming!  These are the ornamental pear trees in our front yard.  So pretty!

Continuing with my goal this year to make something new and unique each month.  For March I waited until the very last day and was limited by what I could make because we hadn't been to the store in a while, but I did decide to make Joanna Gaines' cinnamon squares.  They were good, but we all decided we liked regular cinnamon rolls better :)

The new "normal" piano lessons today at home over the computer.  So grateful for technology that still allows us to do these things!  

Enjoying the outside--Mr J showing off on the trampoline while Miss E watches.

Our Easter Eggs to put up in the front window.  Now our neighborhoods are replacing our bears with big Easter eggs so the kids can walk around and find Easter eggs in people's windows.  Fun stuff!

I have put my kids in charge of planning and making all dinners here for the last 3 weeks.  They are doing a good job.  These are their menus for the last two weeks.   They plan the 2 week menus and then we make a grocery list, and I head to the store, so we only have to go once every 2 weeks which is nice!  Lots of yummy stuff they have been making, and I love not having to make dinner!!

Thanks for visiting!  Stay health!  Wash your hands and stay home!  We will get through this!  Prayers for all!