Today all I did was serve and clean meals, and the rest of the time I was still so exhausted I couldn’t do anything standing up. I did plan the kids’ extracurriculars for the coming year and registered them all for their things. Lydia is doing: harp (one and a half hours of practice a day), ballroom dancing, tennis, rock climbing, singing, Wonderland math and German lessons. She is also trying out for the swim team. Mary is doing piano (2 hours of practice a day), ballroom dancing, tennis, rock climbing, and Wonderland math. Ammon is doing piano (45 minutes a day) break dancing, Taekwando, creative dance, pre-ballet, climbing, and ballroom dancing. Clarissa is doing creative dance, pre-ballet, and way too much preschool (3 full days!!).
Abe is being amazing and clearing out his schedule to keep being available to help. I can not overstate how touched I am. He helped me figure out the kids’ activities, and it was fun to do that with him. He is also doing really well this quarter so far, so that is a big relief. Also, to help entertain Clarissa, Abe let her play with magnetiles in our room while he was on a meeting and then he played with her after his meeting.
Right now Mary is doing Wonderland math while the rest of us watch the Olympics. Earlier in the day Lydia made Basil a new favorite toy out of a dishrag, Lydia and Mary did their reading, Lydia had a Zoom harp lesson, and I cooked some fish and couscous for dinner. I also talked to a health worker who interviewed me about Covid and learned the kids have to quarantine 8 days after my last day of quarantine. That means we can’t do our upcoming Yosemite trip, which is disappointing.
We are planning on spending the rest of the day watching the Olympics with the kids, putting them down, and then I will binge Madam Secretary until bedtime. Madam Secretary has been one of my favorite highlights of being sick so far!
At the end of the day, Abe and the kids did a ton of cleaning and then had fun afterwards by having a dance party and then pretending Abe was a bucking bronco. The kids took turns riding him, and Lydia used the timer to see who could stay on the longest. Ammon scored a whopping 23 seconds, and was the winner!
