The Pandemic: Things to Do...

We went from being busy with school, church, and swim team; with lots of playground time, to staying almost exclusively within our own walls.  

The girls helped us clean and organize the sheds, and we got rid of much stuff.  Now all three of our little sheds are tidy and able to be easily walked into.  

Here the girls are talking to our neighbor, M, who is the chattiest kindergartner ever.

 B rebuilt my excellent Sashiko, who now no longer protests loudly at how much I overload her.

 I tried to notice sakura season on my way to and from the commissary.

 We have played some games...

 There has been much tickle torture...

 B has been helping cook, and expanding his Japanese culinary repertoire.  This curry udon (with homemade udon noodles) tasted amazing- but, unfortunately was soooo spicy 3/5 of us were not able to eat much. 

 The girls built tents to watch General Conference, King Benjamin style...

 The girls found some of my garden stakes and had sword fights, then made a game using the stakes to toss frisby rings to each other.

 We've been trying to have the girls help more with cooking.  My mother was fantastic, but boy, was she bad at teaching me to be an adult...

 A made bread sticks with my Mom's recipe.

 B and I snuck out to see the special spring lights under the sakura.

 We started up the couch to 5 K plods, which has been fun in a painful way.

 The girls got caught up in a neighborhood camp out. 

 There were tents everywhere, kids up on rooftops.  It looked like a refugee camp.

 I reread some HP, including the new British illustrated version I had checked out from the library before it closed.  Why can't anyone get Sirius right?  He's a newfoundland.  Obviously.

 

Getting Sirius wrong aside, the British version is so much better!  The part in the third book where they're in the Shrieking Shack has always bothered me.  Lupin would not say "Here, boy" to Ron.  He just wouldn't.  But Sirius would.  He doesn't really know Ron yet.

I made the girls do some zumba.

And they joined a crane folding challenge, trying to fold a thousand cranes for each of the four schools here on the bases.  They only made it to about six hundred I believe.  It was a good time taker!