Friday, Day 91 of Quarantine

I am so tired today. It's probably on account of getting old. I'll be 39 in two days!!! That's old. Laurie will be 40 in December. Wait. . . no. I'll be 38 in two days. Still quite old.

Ruby's been whiny and Maggie is complaining of a headache. Maybe we'll skip swimming today. I exercised this morning and it was sooooo hard.

Monday, Day 87 of Quarantine

I didn't lock Ruby's door last night! I told her if you come out before the sun is up in the morning, I'll put the lock back on. I told her she had to come check with me when she got up. And she DID! Will it stick? I don't know but here goes.

I bought black-out curtains for her room. I was talking to Jeff about how I always know what time Ruby gets up by checking the weather app for the exact time the sun rose that morning and he said, get black-out curtains and she might sleep in. Genius!

I'm making Maggie a morning list again. I got out of the habit and then it becomes a fight. You can't fight with a list.

Thursday, Day 90 of Quarantine

90 days!!! This is so crazy. And now Covid isn't even the first thing on people's minds. This year!

The girls have been fighting like crazy today. I'm not even sure what happened. Right now they are in separate rooms just doing their own thing. 

I forgot to mention that Grandpa came to swim yesterday. All the girls were thrilled to see him. He brought gifts from New Mexico and suckers. Ruby kept saying he gave her coconuts (it was pine cones). 

Ruby's been coming out of her room after I put her to bed. That doesn't bother me so much. Maggie used to do the same thing. Multiple times I caught Maggie sneaking around and tonight I found Ruby army crawling to the living room. Stinker. 

I put up the black-out curtains. They appear to make zero difference in waking time. 

Wednesday, Day 89 of Quarantine

The days really run together. We do basically the same thing every day. Ruby now gets up on her own. I try to leave out the remote so she can watch TV or play on her kindle. She can get food. She still has water.

I get up around 7:30 or 8 and drink coffee. Then I exercise. Ruby sometimes ecker-sizes with me. After my workout, I take Sav on a walk. We're a show for the neighborhood. Sav is so much better but she's still ridiculous. That scream and leaping in the air. I just apologize and keep going. No one has gotten angry or been rude about it.

When I get home, I do yoga. Then shower. Then turn off all screens. The girls usually want to eat and I do too.

We just kinda hang out. The girls find ways to entertain themselves while I work. I still have CKBH and I check in with my school. I have grad school. Although school is a mess right now. Somehow, at the height of Covid crap, I missed an email that I needed to have applied for my internship by April. So now I can't do my internship in the summer and it's going to mess up my whole schedule. I'll probably have to take a whole extra semester. What a pain!

We watch a movie usually. Today, we watched Part 1 of the Sesame Street/CNN town hall on Black Lives Matter. This is above Ruby's head, although she can learn a bit. It's kind of like sex. I'm not going to have a sex talk with my kids. I'm going to have an ongoing conversation with them. Ruby knows a little, Maggie knows a little more. And I'll keep teaching and explaining as they age and need to know. We need to take the same approach to race. My kids will understand. The town hall is a good place to start but it's just the beginning.

We swim at Laurie's house from 4-6:30 (Monday through Thursday) or 3-6:30 (Friday through Sunday). This has helped my girls so much. The exercise, the time with other kids, the outdoors. They needed this. I love being able to talk to grown-ups.

Then we come home. I put Ruby straight to bed. Maggie has some screen time. Then we read together and talk for a while.

Tuesday, Day 88 of Quarantine

I left Ruby's door unlocked again. She may have opened her door a few times but I never saw or heard her come out.

We didn't go swimming because they got chemicals in the pool and it wasn't open until 5:30 pm.

Sunday, Day 86 of Quarantine

More cleaning. Exercise. Walking Sav. We watched Revenge of the Sith. It's so dark, still not very good. But we're almost to the good stuff.

We went swimming again. This time Laurie joined. I passed on any booze. No more awful headaches for me.

Maggie and I read two chapters last night. It's just so good.

Saturday, Day 85 of Quarantine

We did lots of cleaning. Sheets, dog bed, etc. Fleas!

We went swimming in the afternoon. Maggie decided she wanted to teach Ruby how to swim without her floaties. Ruby clung to Maggie like a little koala bear. It was so sweet and loving. It warmed my heart.

Laurie didn't feel good so it was just me and Jeff and the girls. I drank a mixed drink Jeff made and in the evening it made my head hurt so bad. Something about the heat and booze was a bad mix. So no more of that.

Oh! I've been wanting to remember when Maggie and I read the chapter in HP about Horacruxes she said, did Voldemort accidentally put one in Harry when he tried to kill him? This is THE BIG REVEAL at the very end of the series and she guessed it. I'm putting it here so I don't forget. We are obsessively reading. It's SOOOOOOO good.

A picture Ruby drew.

I got some pictures of Maggie from Jan. These are from spring/summer-ish 2012.