Quarantine Week 2

We finished week 2 of self isolation/quarantine/whatever we're calling it. If the first week was a surreal honeymoon week, this second week was more of an emotional "how is this going to be our new normal" week. School closures have been extended to May 4 at the earliest and MN started a "shelter at home" order Saturday for 2 weeks. This week is the kids' Spring Break so we can't even start distance learning until next week which is painful. BUT, we have a safe, warm place to live with plenty of food and good WiFi. We'll get through it.

We kept (mostly) to our schedule. Morning walk was Marlo's favorite.


After I ordered flour online we did some baking including cookies and these awesome pretzels.


Rob joined us for a walk one morning and we got pretty ambitious.



We found some neat ice!



Rob and Marlo finally took down the Christmas lights.


Another morning walk. It was pretty nice a couple days this week!



Marlo got to do a Google hangout session with her teacher and class! Distance learning is going to be a challenge for this Kindergartner.


We bought a hot tub a couple months ago but were waiting until the ground thawed to do some landscaping and lay a new cement pad before getting it delivered. The shelter in place order prompted us to push up the delivery and somehow the stars all aligned for instant delivery, our basement contractor making a base to account for our very unlevel slab and awesome electricians to run proper wiring all in 2 days. It was our gift to ourselves to enjoy these weeks/months at home and the cancellation of our Spring Break this week.


Hopefully this will light a bigger fire under us to get the backyard more functional and beautiful. This is the first spring we've had where the backyard isn't COVERED in dog poop. There have been some perks to being dog free but I think about her a lot being home all day long. Lois would've LOVED us all being home all the time.

Hope everyone had a great weekend and is staying healthy and taking care of one another!