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Homebound Lockdown with this Crew

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This band of nuts

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Who do you have on your pandemic survival crew? At my house we have a couple of great kids who have been working very hard to keep active with their studies and learn new things. They are distance learning from my sister, Tara. She has Science projects for them to each learn. Allison has been working with the kids on their studies from school. She’s also keeping us fed and making sure that a schedule is followed but not too strictly. There is room for adjustments.

Each morning we watch the school principal start off the day with announcements and prayer. We also catch the livestreams that our priest are doing for our parish. They have been doing daily Mass and also the rosary. We also get some behind the scenes pictures of how they set up for the livestream.

The kids have been connecting with their friend online. We’ll try and connect with the cousins soon, too.

I try to keep up the entertainment portion of being home. I’ve gotten a number of games, toys and movie for review and we are going to check them all out. Lots of learning ones in there, too. Any way we can keep conversation going around learning is good.

What is your family doing during this time?

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Working from Home is the New Reality

Work from Home Reality

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For the foreseeable future I’ll be working at home. So, part of that is a nightly check in with my group. When we do it we do it with Google Meetings Hangout and so there is video. We goof around with each other and if we have masks we wear them. It gives everyone a chuckle before we get the meeting started.

I’ve also made some changes to my office setup for the week ahead. I’ll be doing some livestreams each day and was thinking about building a giant LEGO set. I have the Voltron set and I want to build that one. I think if I do one lion each day it will be a lot of fun. I’ve been inspired by what Mo Willems has been doing each day. He does lunch doodles for kids and he’s wonderful. You can see his show below.

For all that I’ve griped about work I am happy with how they have been handling this virus stuff. Working from home has been good. The kids are feeling safer that I am home. I like being able to put them to bed each night. I do get at least one night where I can’t but for the most part I can. I’ll take it.