As of last week, I changed my working days to Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and have Wednesday and Friday off. So, today is my first day not working, but I still have lots of work to do: making the meals, doing the washing up, helping the kids with their homework. And I just remembered I need to do the laundry today as well. I am so thankful that the sun is shining and that we have a garden where we can go to get some fresh air! We have taken the covers off the patio furniture for the first time in months, and we can say hello to our neighbours over the fence again (all whilst keeping our safe 2m distance of course.)
The kids are still amazing me with their willingness to do work and not moaning. The hardest bit is just getting them to the table to start, but once they get into it, they are focused and ready to do their work. I am not sure how much they are going to learn outside of Maths and English, but never mind.
I caved and signed up for one year of Disney+ for a year for a bargain price of £49! So we will have to check that out and see what we can find on there for Science as there is all the National Geographic channel as well. And I have seen people posting on Facebook about introducing their kids to shows like Ducktales and other shows from the 80s! That should be fun. I am still not sure I will get bored enough to watch the StarWars, but it all depends on how long this lockdown carries on.
The big news is that KFC is closed for business for the next few weeks. They had already made the decision to close before Boris made the announcement on Monday, but Brad has still been really busy on conference calls and such.
Yesterday the kids humoured me and listened to me reading them the first chapter of Harry Potter. I am hoping to do it nearly every day, as I think it's a good way to get them all in the same room and off electronics. And then we can watch the movie when we finish the book. I hope that we can take turns reading the chapters.
The most fun I had yesterday was a quiz night via Zoom! We tried Skype, but Skype is old technology, there is so much better stuff going on with Zoom and Microsoft Teams. I was very impressed with Gwen doing 6 rounds of the Quiz for us. We even had a Guest Round where her daughters made up all the questions. I came in last by half a point and Wendy was the winner as she knew all the songs in the last round. I am not so good with music. We have set the next one for next Tuesday and we are doing a round each: I am doing the All American round, so I need to start working on my questions! I may enlist the help of the kids as well. I am going to mix in all sorts of bits of geography, general knowledge. It will be fun!
Thank goodness for technology and being able to still connect with people.
Random thoughts:
~Drew is going to have super shaggy hair when this is all over, as we have no way to cut his hair!
~Drew and Alison love doing colour by number things using multiplication as long as it makes a picture.
~Lauren can really focus on her school work when she wants to
~I am missing our house in KY where we had multiple tables, as here the table rotates from being the breakfast table to the school/work desk to the lunch table back to the school/work desk to the puzzle working table to the dinner table. At least we have a big enough table to all work at!
~Thankful that we purchased a new iMac 2 months ago as Lauren has to do all of her homework online and submit some of it
~The kitchen is also being used as Alison's gym and Drew's football pitch (although a lot of his football is being played outside now that it's warmer.)
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