Thursday

Everyone found it really hard to wake up. Like every week, but the sun came out to give us a bit of motivation…

Remote learning for both kids was on again.

Today we’ve experienced 2 new things :

1. First remote test
2. Parent-teacher interviews via phone.

That was very awkward. But we can live with that.

Today, I tried to avoid cooking for Shabbat… so I managed to progress with the puzzle. AGAIN.

Then, I had enough so I had no choice and started cooking.

After school time was over, we baked some challahs. The smell was fantastic.

And then decided to have some more fun by making Pretzels – for the first time, soooo yummy.

To finish the day with a bit of optimism in the air we watched Frozen 2.

Haven’t watched a movie for a while…
I noticed that besides the beautiful story, the Disney animation work was incredible.

My conclusion from the movie is that we are going “into the unknown… into the unknown….”

Hopefully like in all Disney movies, these times will have a good and happy ending.

Remote learning for both kids…

(Actually it’s not exactly 3 days of isolation because I didn’t add Saturday and Sunday to this … but who’s counting)

It means that I get time by myself. Finally.

So I closed the living room door. Listening to the quiet. I opened the radio app and listened to the sound of music. I was folding 4 loads of laundry.
When I finished, I danced my way to put the folded ones in the cupboards.
Then I decided to clean a bit (still listening to my music)

Cooked some lunch.
And then came my highlight of the day… going out.
Yayyyy. After days that I didn’t get dressed properly or got do any shopping, I am out to pick up my ordered meat.
So much fun, that I decided to pick up some fruit and vegetables on the way and come back to the nest.

After the kids finished their school day, we sat down to eat dinner.
Then I realised how hard it is to be locked.

My teenagers started fighting and teasing each other, all I could do was
tell them to stop & pray that they will learn to respect each other.

We all need to learn that…

Respect means a positive feeling or action shown towards someone.

SO if you are sick don’t go outside to play or exercise. Respect the community that wants to stay healthy.
Don’t do things on purpose towards others.

Always imagine what would have happened if it was the other way.

Another relaxing day around the house…

Started off with one child having distance learning, while I kept the other occupied by trying to reconnect with the land by watering our veggie patch & harvesting our orange tree that produces so many oranges.

Then we tried the oranges and realised they are so sweet and delicious.
Let alone that made our day much better.

People say that hugging trees is the best medicine against anxiety, or that it increases levels of the oxytocin hormone. This hormone is responsible for feeling calm and emotional bonding. When hugging a tree, the serotonin and dopamine hormones make you feel happier.

So we tried it a bit… it’s definitely brought us a big laugh.

Our 6000pcs puzzle is heading to completion.
Normally we work on it over the weekends.
We now have the opportunity to finish it until the upcoming weekend (very high expectations) so we try really hard.

Then we needed to get out a little, so we did some street art with tape and chalk:

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It was fun.
My teenagers admitted it.

I can now go to sleep with a big smile on my face.

DAY #1

In the past few weeks, we couldn’t avoid talking about what’s going on around the world with this virus that drives everyone NUTS.

Literally, you can see everybody’s shopping like it’s the end of the worlds’ coming.

Well, in some ways it is… Last time our plant survived such a thing was with the Spanish flu, which occurred nearly a hundred years ago. Although not one of us is familiar with the situation… We better manage it a bit better than excessive shopping.

For us, Time stopped!

Today is the first day of LOCKDOWN, indeed it sounds scary, but we always need to look at the bright side (China got over this virus by lockdown only)

We can do a lot of things we wanted to do and didn’t have time… like playing with our kids, doing some puzzles ( we need to finish 6000 pcs puzzle we started before Rosh Hashana) We’ll get there soon…

We can teach our kids practical life skills that school isn’t teaching them, like Doing the washing, some dishes, cooking, taking part of very other chores you think will be good for them to learn, you can do some art, different kind of art you never did before, waste-art, you can do some Sodoku, etc.

You can watch some movies with the kids that they always wanted to watch with you, and you never had the time.

Don’t forget to exercise with the kids, some competitions between the kids will do the job.

Cherish this time with your kids it’s something they will remember forever.