Days 8-10

Sunday

We did church at home again. Ashton and Tanner gave talks on the scriptures and the commandments, respectively. Then, we learned about the olive tree in Jacob 5 and did singing time again. The kids enjoyed church. We had a typical Sunday at home after that.

Monday

Our master bathroom remodel started this day. It was demo day. This has some pros and cons. Pro is the kids watched the demo from our bed. Con was that it was LOUD! Lydia typically naps in our closet off the bathroom. So for the next two weeks, she's napping upstairs. She doesn't seem to love it as her naps got shorter. But she's still sleeping decently. Gemma's room is right above the bathroom so she falls asleep amid the noise but wakes up after a short nap. I keep telling myself this too shall pass.

Tuesday

Tuesday was stressful and I think I finally lost it for the first time. Houston announced a stay home order today. It begins tonight at midnight. The bathroom remodel had a small hiccup and I had to re-plan a few parts at the last minute, which is always stressful but even more when you also have four kids to take care of. We had to run to a store to pick out countertops before they close their doors with the Houston lockdown order and the store is a thirty minute drive one way. Then it was one kid down for a nap, one kid up from a nap kind of afternoon so I didn't get my typical "break." And then we ran out of milk so had to run to HEB at the last minute (they close early now) and the store was out of a ton of stuff again. Thankfully, they had milk but not much else and I hadn't gone grocery shopping in a while. So I grabbed what I could and we will rely on our freezer stash for the next ten days. I was very happy to end the day.

The highlight of Tuesday was our school did a teacher car parade through a few neighborhoods. About 30 cars came through our neighborhood and down our street. Ashton was able to see her kindergarten teacher as well as a few other teachers she knows. Then Tanner got to see his speech therapist who he loves. It made our kids so happy to see their teachers. It was the closest "socializing" we'd done in a while just by seeing people drive down our street.

An impromptu car garage

They found some caterpillars and made a home for them. Unfortunately, this broke two days later due to a child who was determined not to listen to my warning of "this will break if you move it."