Quarantine Time Capsule

Our (new to us) homeschool co-op assembles a yearbook of highlights each Spring; but this year, as stay-at-home orders forced us to wrap our weekly gatherings early, we lacked sufficient photographs to fill the pages. 🙁 In lieu of pictures, each family was charged with recording a brief paragraph detailing the impact of the pandemic, for posterity. Here’s ours:

I’m embarrassed to confess we kicked off quarantine with gumption, grateful for respite from a frenetic season of pinballing across town for activities. Already working & schooling from home (regular stockpile of toilet paper secure in the pantry) we hunkered down, healthy, trading lacrosse, little-league, dance, and choir for baking, board games, biking, and crafts; and focused on making our new house a home. We celebrated birthdays, Easter, and Mother’s Day within the metes of social distance and quickly missed the Christian community outside our four walls. We look forward to the time when we can resume gathering together.

Another glimpse inside our quarantine:

Work –

another day, another zoom
Jane Austen seminar
zoom speech therapy

Play:

PPE world champs
FaceTime Pros
socially distanced visits
co-op zoom
had this custom puzzle made for my nieces in quarantine (that’s their father’s freshman year photograph in the center)
attending church in line at In&Out
children’s church storytime
my sister surprised us with a visit from a rad shave-ice truck at our driveway
the girls switched clothes and then impersonated each other
one must bring weaponry along on a nature hike (marshmallow shooter)
(potato gun)
Yes, we drove to Pdx JUST for Krispy Kreme & Chick-fil-A
even the cat is eager to escape

the girls figured out how to order chipotle delivery from my phone

Celebrations:

Papa’s birthday
May Day
Uncle Luke’s [Veinti]Cinco de Mayo Birthday
Mother’s Day
Center Sister’s 1 year Vegiversary (she made us all eat vegetarian the whole day)