Day #001
Quarantine Day #001-ish…
- Four year-old Patience argues with me about what shirt she’s going to wear today because apparently the one I chose for her is “not cute”
- Hunt for lost engagement ring (no dice)
- Catch Yali walking outside with a hammer to create (or destroy) who knows what
- Prematurely serve lunch of boxed mac ‘n cheese (save that “nasty” for when it gets really bad!)
- Fill out online 2020 census while Yali and Rose play pirate ship with cardboard tubes for spyglasses and brooms for oars in the carport… until Yali soaks Patience with the garden hose (39 degree windchill, screaming, crying, etc.)
- Take Yali and Patience on a walk in the neighborhood while they take turns kicking a chunk of asphalt down the street
- Puck continues experiments with alternative spray-on hand wash invention in lieu of the always-out-of-stock-always hand sanitizer
- Serve tacos to family while reading about Old Testament Israel’s perpetual disobedience because, as Puck says, “That’s just what they did.”
- Play a few rounds of Oregon Trail after dinner
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That same afternoon, my two youngest…
“Patience, you still want to play ‘Family’?”
“Yup!… Do your homework!”
Yali slapped a ball cap on his head like his big brother, and pulled out a Lego-created remote control, pretending to watch a television show about dinosaurs instead. “Wait a minute…”
“Hey!” Patience clapped her hands at him to get his attention. “Do your homework!”
“Fine.” Yali sighed and walked to the dinner table where he picked up a pencil and a sheet of paper. He began to write notes. “I will… Corn on the cob… Two plus two is five…”
“Nope, nope…” Patience bossed him, and pointed out his incorrect problems.
“Oh, I hate my homework. Why do I always have to do things?”
“Yali, you’re so silly…”
“Oh, COME ON! I hate homework.”
Patience took his paper and began to erase his incorrect answers.
“No, Patience! That 3 is right, that 3 is right!”
Where do they get this stuff from?