Through such a time of unrest and worries and then peace and content, this Coronavirus has taken affect on us. All non essential stores are shut down. All schools are closed. We've not gone to church in two weeks because of the closed doors. All of this is to help slow down the Covid 19 virus!!!!! Meanwhile, I've been taking lots of pictures of what our days are filled with and we are making memories in this moment in history! If you care to follow along on our journey through all of this, you are welcome to keep checking the blog.
Austin, our Little Man, just loves to pretend to be animals or creatures. Here he wanted to be a bear and so all I did was print out some bear claws and he loved it!!!!!
Last week I ordered biscotti's from Sari at Our Daily Bread Company and she's just got the best ever!!!!! I'm in love with these with my morning coffee!!!!!
Austin keeps me busy and I love his presence here at home with me. We didn't know it then that we were about to get our schedules interrupted with the other kids now at home with us but what a fun time!
Hadassah made it home safe and sound!!!!!!!! We are thrilled to have her back home with us and out of the airports in this contagious virus moment! Jeremiah went with Mike and I to pick her up at school last Thursday night and we drove straight to Chickfila for a salad and then to Starbucks for her favorite drink! Spoiled???? Maybe a little bit?!?!
She stayed home from Intern the next day because of quarantine. I didn't think it was a good idea for her to be in a large market dealing with food and money right after she gets back from traveling across the globe. Plus the time difference had her in jet lag. Instead, she stayed home with me and mowed the lawn for the first time this year!!!!
And then she made these cinnamon rolls that were delicious!
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The Lancaster Golf Club that we are members at held a Father/Daughter Princess Event last Friday night. Mike had made reservations for him and Ashlyn to go and I really hoped it wouldn't be canceled because our little princess was over the top excited to go do this!!!!!!!
She loved every minute of it!!!! Real Disney princesses were there and she got to dance with them!!!!! What a fun night for these two!!!!!
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Mike's response to this whole coronavirus goes like this ... go outside and air out the house. He went around the entire house opening up windows and doors and ordered his employees and offices to do the same! We decided to go to the local park just a few miles away from home on Sunday afternoon. Church was canceled and the kids got some exercise by riding their bikes. There are fish in the pond and they fed them some animals crackers.
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On Monday, Ashlyn had no school because of teachers in service and because she loves to garden, I decided to go visit a local greenhouse and grab some fresh spring plants!!!!!
Such good helpers!!!!!
We got home and went right to work!!!! I love this kind of work!!!!!
We planted Spinach, Kale, Candy onions, Buttercrunch lettuce, Radishes, Red beets, carrots and Black Simpson Cut Lettuce.
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I bought two new cookbooks from Amazon that many ladies are raving about on Instagram!!!! I can't wait to try this recipes and these Chicken Tenders were very tasty!!!! We loved them!!!!!
And for dessert, I made a chocolate cake that the family raved about too!!!!!!
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On Tuesday, I went to school to pick up Ashlyn's school books and papers for the next two weeks. We are now homeschooling until this Coronavirus gets better. Meanwhile, projects are going on at home.
The living room was getting a new paint color.
Before:
You could have never convinced me that the four children would all be home in March of 2020 because of a world wide virus going on and spreading at rapid speed. But reality is, it's happening and because Jeremiah is here working in the basement and painting, we have hungry kids wanting food around the dining room table for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lord, help me have much patience and grace!!!!!
Matthew loves to tease the little ones but they can have such a wonderful time together!!!! Basketball is still going strong around here even though we have no more games and practices to attend!
Here's the little homeschool girl! She's doing great with this!
And this stinker has no real idea what's going on but he's loving having the others at home!
The painters moved into the dining room to paint the ceiling tray.
And then they finished up with Hadassah's bathroom.
And here it is .... freshly painted and complete!!!!!
Dove White.
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Matthew went to the shop one day and built this blue bird house. Ashlyn painted it while the older kids painted my inside walls.
Wrapping up the basement project. There was a wall separating the basement that Jeremiah took out. Hadassah and Jer painted the yellow "toy room" now like the rest of the basement.
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Austin woke up one morning last week wanting to make a rocket ship.
Here it is.
Then they did school. Ashlyn was all about showing Austin how school goes.
They then went outside and picked me some weeds and chives.
And played hospital.
Ashlyn's class is watching Eagles on a nest of three eggs online. We looked it up and how amazing. It's fun to do activities like this even if Ashlyn has to do school from home!
And of course, Austin asked to make eagle masks. We printed some out and then they colored them!
One good thing about having a teenage boy around the house is that he can help with some projects too!!!! He edged for me around the house!
With the children home and in the kitchen much more the past week, I went to get a dish rag out of the drawer and there were no clean clothes. I wash my clothes all the time and it looks like we need to restock!
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Friday was such a beautiful, warmer day. 70's actually. We decided to have a family camp fire. Hadassah was already off to be some friends (small crowds of course) and we missed her not with us. We roasted hot dogs and s'mores and ate yummy mac and cheese from one of my new cookbooks!!!!
The kids found four sparkers in the kitchen cabinet and begged to light them up.
Why not!?!
Here are the two new cookbooks that I've been enjoying!!!!
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This is what the house looked like a few days ago. I was about to scream with everything being dirty and messy but we fueled up with Latte Luv's Blackberry Tea and the house is in much better shape now!!!!!!
If you are feeling stressed from all of this, cry out to God for help!!!! Play some worship music! Listen to a sermon. Dig into God's word and listen for his voice!
America is going to make it through this!!!! Pray for God's help!!!!
God is good all the time and all the time, God is good!!!!
