Pandemic Chronicles: Week Two

Week Two of this new stay-at-home normal was March 22nd - March 28th.

Sunday morning was my first "church at home" morning with the boys. The week before they had been with my parents and I had been the only non-worship or tech team member sitting in church, haha. But then it was highly pushed that you could not meet in groups of more than 10, and we needed to limit who was there. So me and the boys began our Sunday mornings at home, while Mr.Pate headed to church.

Oh wait... I should add that we had some strong storms the night before and lost power for a few hours. That resulted in our modem frying. So I woke Sunday morning to no internet. Thank the Lord for good mobile service and hot spots! 

Kim graciously offered to teach the PreK/K class on Zoom on Sunday mornings, so we kicked that off on the 22nd. Those kids were the cutest. And Kim is so gifted with them.

 

 

 

Then we settled in to watch church together. Griffin hung with me but I had not prepared enough for Grady and he got bored quickly and went off to play.

Griffin finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (we had been reading it together) and took his first at-home AR test, and passed!! He was so freaking excited. I was really proud. I sat next to him and would have missed a few.

We met with our connect group via Zoom for the first time that day also.

That week I worked half days in the office so there were not as many of us there, and then we were all sent to work from home starting Thursday. We home-schooled the kids some more, I figured out how to work from home, and we had more Zoom church classes. Also, Mr.Pate built a pitching mound and they turned the back hallway of church into a training facility. Ha!

Thursday, Bristow did a wave parade and it was soooo sweet! We even made a large banner that marked out six feet where the kids could stand to hold it. Ha!We also went back to Bristow to help give out Cotton BBQ.

Friday and Saturday were gorgeous that week, so we played and worked outside as much as possible. Griffin spent lots of time in his hammock listening to the second Harry Potter also. We watched Home Safaris, and Mo Williams teach us to draw, and took advantage of all the free awesome resources people were providing right now.

Saturday we went on a Bear Hunt in a local neighborhood and had a ball. Almost every house participated and it was really fun to search for them. We let the kids hangout the sunroof and windows and it was a beautiful day. Then we ran into the Floras doing a bike ride on our way home!