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This quarantine is definitely starting to get to us. My kids turned two earthworms into their pets. Melon and Sally. I’m not making this up. At first I thought it was really cute. Then, when Rose started talking about how they were going to teach the worms to come when they called them by name I realized it was just sad. I’m pretty sure that they’re outside sewing leashes for them as we speak. Elle decided that she wanted more than just two worms so she tried to convince Rose to come with her on her quest for more dirt dwellers. Rose was, understandably, less than enthusiastic. (Raising two worms at the same time was going to be a lot of work. How could she possibly bite off any more? And don’t even get me started on the cost of sending three worms to college!) I told Elle that she could probably handle this conquest on her own. She, totally seriously, replied “What if I find two at the same time and one tries to escape!? I need Rose there to help me catch the second one so it doesn’t get away!” I guess when you’ve gone seven weeks without the least little smidge of anything exciting your threshold for what you consider dangerous adapts as well. This is the epitome of excitement over here ladies and gentlemen. We may have hit rock bottom. But if we flip that rock over maybe we’ll find a couple more worms! Turn those lemons into lemonade…

I’m just wondering how we’re going to get them a matching sweater for our Christmas card…

4/22/20

Don’t you guys have your own cubicles to work in!? Janet, Sharon, Carol, and Bob apparently failed Social Distancing 101. I NEED MY SPACE PEOPLE!

I thought I was killing it as a homeschool teacher. I’ve been creating simple lesson plans and cool reward systems for completion. Coming up with science and art projects. Making flash cards. Teaching new kid-specific skills. The other day I found out real quick that I’m not as great at teaching as I thought. By pure chance I had purchased a cheap and cool looking barometer at a thrift shop before this whole quarantine started, thinking my kids could learn something. I broke it out the other day and I made the girls watch a few videos online to learn about barometers and air pressure, etc. They were pretty boring videos, but the payoff was going to be worth it right!? (Turns out the people that are interested in making air pressure videos for YouTube may be lacking in the charisma department just a tad.) After boring our pants off in the name of science we got the barometer out to give it a try. Turns out it was not a barometer after all. It was just a fancy thermometer. Hmmm…that was a lot of barometer-build up for nothing. Did we learn anything? Nope. Just that the inside of our house is 69 degrees. Science lesson over. Teachers should get paid one hundred billiondy dollars. 

Why is Carol getting paid!? Today she made a giant cardboard fort in MY office and, in her excitement to pop out and surprise me, got herself stuck in the window. Naturally I left her there for a bit so she could learn a valuable lesson: Build a fort in your own office. I’ve got work to do. Somebody’s got to be productive enough that this company can afford to keep you around.

Today marks exactly 10 solid years of wedded bliss for Alex and I. We were supposed to be on a beach in Jamaica this entire week. Instead we are enjoying being quarantined with four children and our in-laws in a snowstorm. It’s pretty much the same thing. When you can’t live it up reggae-style, you do the next best thing…recreate your entire wedding day. Complete with some strange photos that we took with random gifts we still have from our original wedding…because that makes as much sense as the rest of this. We then get a taste of a Jamaican honeymoon with an authentic Jamaican meal courtesy of my amazing mother-in-law. (Also, the next time you’re forced to self-quarantine, if you’re not doing it with a gourmet chef, you’re doing it wrong.)

Mimosa’s with the bridesmaids!

Getting ready before the big event!

Grabbing a drink while they wait for wedding time

So many emotions!

Officially entering manhood!

Wedding gift from 10 years ago!



Many of you likely already saw these photos from my various social media channels. But, we had so much fun making them I thought there may be a few people that subscribe to the blog alone that would enjoy these as well! Feel free to share with friends to brighten their day if you’d like! I challenged my family to an “Artwork Recreation Challenge” to provide some entertainment during these long days of quarantine. They did not disappoint. Subscribe to the blog and follow me on Instagram (@worldsokayestparenting) if you want more fun like this!

I told them to lay down and read for naptime. I guess next time I’ll need to be more specific. When you’re in quarantine for four weeks you have a lot of time to get organized and clean. And when you get to the deep recesses in the inner sanctum of your house you start to find your husband’s piles of junk that he brought into the marriage 10 years ago and hasn’t touched since. You immediately move all of this stuff to a donation pile because it’s all completely worthless and useless. (He agrees. Mostly.) All thrift shops are closed currently, so you’ll begin a pile in your bedroom so it’s not in the way. When you send your five-year-old to take a nap in the bedroom and she doesn’t obey, this child will go through said pile and start reading a book on how to play Grand Theft Auto – complete with pictures. If you’re not familiar with this game consider yourself lucky. It’s quite degenerate. We don’t even own a video game console, but now I’m tempted to get one to see how much of this knowledge she retained. And bonus… we now have all the Cheat Codes! We’ve already used up all of the nice wholesome family game ideas… my daughters are about to kick some serious butt at felonious car robbery and assault!

You guys I am probably going to prison at the end of this quarantine. And no – not for the reasons you would think… but because it’s starting to look as though I likely neglect my children. Scarlett now has some tactile issues with certain clothes and the way they fit. Count yourself blessed if you’ve never had to deal with a kid that hates fabric touching their skin. One way this manifests itself is that she absolutely hates to wear pants. It hasn’t been the absolute end of the world because we’re all forced to stay home all the time so if she wants to walk around our house in her undies it doesn’t really matter. However, we usually still make her put on some bottoms of some sort. Yesterday was no exception and we had an epic blowout fight to start our day as I forced her to put on some pink pants. After they were on and she got used to the way they felt she was OK though. If you live near me you know that yesterday was an absolutely beautiful day. So we spent the entire thing outside. Rose learned to ride her bike. They jumped on the trampoline. We cut our first flower bouquet. You get the idea. It was amazing and just what our souls needed. When we came in for dinner I didn’t think much of it when Scarlett ended up taking off her pants. I felt like I had achieved a victory by making her wear them all day and we were going to be in the house for the rest of the evening so did it really matter? After dinner a couple of us walked outside to get something quickly and ended up getting distracted by the trampoline and Rose’s bike riding. Scarlett eventually walked outside to join us. It took me a minute to notice that she was outside in just her undies. A little weird, but I’ll allow it temporarily. While I was working with Rose on bike riding she turned a major corner and finally was able to do it without me running along beside her. She really really wanted to show off by riding down the road past the neighbor’s house. One of the boys in her class lives in this house and she saw him riding his bike the other day so she wanted to ride by just to show off a little bit. I get it girl. You got to work it. Anyways we were somewhat rushed because it happened suddenly that she was willing to do this so we threw Grant and Scarlett in push cars and headed for his house. We were nearing a half mile away from home when we realized that nobody had put pants on Scarlett. Thank God while she was sitting in the car her behind was mostly eclipsed and it made one assume she was wearing shorts. However, on the way home she decided she no longer wanted to ride in the car. So we walked by Every. One. of our neighbor’s houses. With my daughter in her underwear and no shoes. And I am completely serious when I say that we ran into more neighbors during this walk than we ever have in our entire 10 years of living on this road. Likely because we are all cooped up in our houses so when you see some action going on on the road, you want to come out and see what it’s all about. Obviously we had properly social distanced visits with each of these neighbors but it was a little odd when Scarlett literally started shaking her booty in just the undies. At one point she ran into a neighbor’s yard and was trying to talk to the birds way up in the tree and feed them snacks. Right by their front window. I am certain phone calls were made.