Author: Mike

Another week of quarantine, but we had one exciting event with our friend Ally and her pup Squatch coming over for a social distance dinner party. We ate outside and kept our distance, but it was good to have some interaction with a non family member!

The exciting news this week is that the beach is open again. We aren’t allowed to sit, but we can swim, walk and run. Eleanor and I decided to give it a try this weekend and it was glorious. You had to really work to keep your distance in the water, but the water temperature…

This week we celebrated Mother’s Day with a quiet day at home, capped by a friendly game of Sorry. The kids also made a zoo out of Lego Duplos – they have always been more creative with the larger duplos, and I have to say the zoo was pretty neat. It even included its own…

This week we celebrated Monkey’s birthday with a celebratory doughnut. We actually had lots of treats this week, including cinnamon rolls and crescent rolls. We also moved Henry’s desk area down into the Lego room, so that he would have some more privacy, which I think he really appreciated. We also figured out how to…

This week we had some unknown animal visit our backyard and destroy all five balls that were in the backyard. How strange! Henry was really bummed out because he had just developed a game using all of those balls – and Dad was left wondering what type of creature did the damage? I wish we…

We had a fun evening Birthday celebration for Grandma – a five way Skype call with Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma, Aunt and Uncle B, and the Martins. We sang happy birthday and chatted a bit, then played a few rounds of Codenames. It was a little hard to play over Skype, but we made it…

Eleanor and Henry celebrated Easter this week quarantine style. We did manage to have a small egg hunt, plus we had a fabulous coffee cake breakfast courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa! We also did our Popcorn Ball decorating – we had been saving these for Easter. Dad made a bunny, Henry made a cow and…

Spring break has arrived, but unfortunately we are having a coronacation instead of a fun ski trip. We have been keeping busy with lots of puzzles and games, plus a fair amount of Fortnite and Minecraft. We brought out the hammock in the back yard for some outdoor time, in addition to lots of walks…