One month at home

You'd think I'd be blogging more now that we're home. all. the. time. But I've actually been busier than ever with work. And when I'm not glued to my computer for work, I'm busy trying to figure out the elementary school yearbook. A word of advice for any of the parents out there ... DO NOT sign up to help with the yearbook! It's a nightmare. Especially now that half of the events for the year have been cancelled! But at least we'll have it wrapped up in the next week or two and then I can hopefully get back to my normal routine of podcast listening, magazine reading, and TV watching.

So ... what else have we been doing? We had "Spring Break" last week, which was actually really nice. I still took most of the week off, so we could do some things as a family and relax. This included chipping golf balls in the front yard, playing one-on-one soccer at the field near our house, "hiking" around the nature preserves near Evanston, riding our bikes on side streets and hoping not to come too close to anyone, taking Riley on a million walks, baking, playing board games, and watching some of our favorite movies (Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Lord of the Rings were all hits with the Molls).

After Spring Break, Molly started a more structured version of e-Learning, and I have to say, it has been a bit more stressful than I was expecting. There's so much info coming in and so many emails with links and videos and apps that she needs to sign up for. It's a little overwhelming - for all of us. Molly has been handling it all pretty well, but she seems kind of unsure of the expectations, and is starting to crack a little under the pressure. We just found out that school will be closed for the rest of the year, so that is also hard. Summer camps are starting to cancel as well. But we'll figure it out!

Molly is loving all the screen time though, especially the freedom we've given her to video chat with her friends, so there's that. I've had some fun Zoom calls with my friends from high school. And we've had a few with baby John as well. Top Chef is back on TV, so how bad can things be? Here are some pics from April:

A glimpse of John and Sus through the glass

Molly with teal hair - I died a few pieces in my hair as well. Why not?

Chipping practice

M&M cookies made with my great grandma's recipe