Drive-by Easter

Our parents did a drive-by Easter egg drop off for the kids today. With social distancing still in effect, our Easter plans have all been canceled so they decided to treat us to a surprise. We’ll still be celebrating Jesus tomorrow, but I’m really missing our family get togethers that we normally do.

Quarantine

Today was sunny and warm, finally a break from the winter temperatures. Everyone is tucked away in bed but me; I haven’t slept well since everything with Coronavirus started a few weeks ago. My doggie Zoey is laying beside me, keeping me company but sometimes drifting into deep dreams that cause her to wimper and wiggle her legs. Makes me wonder what she is seeing in her sleep; she’s such a good girl, I love when she snuggles up on the couch.

We recently had spring break, and now school is canceled for April due to the virus, although we have been doing e-learning at home. The kids are doing well, Zaidey has her first loose teeth, the two middle ones on the bottom.  Lincoln did great with wrestling this year, but sadly we missed the state finals due to the virus. Trinity has been missing her dance classes and school, but seems to enjoy the e-learning her teacher has organized.

Everyone is currently under quarantine due to COVID - 19, and my family has been doing our part by staying at home. We haven’t gone anywhere in two weeks except for a couple of drive up grocery orders. We’re all getting pretty stir crazy. However, we’ve gotten lots done and made some amazing memories.

Here in rural Indiana, things haven’t been too abnormal, but I hate to see so many people across the world struggling. I’ve been praying for our country to be strengthened and to have faith that we will get through this. Thankfully, Spring is here and if nothing else it lifts my spirits to see everything come back to life after a dreary winter.

My Studio Helper

Zaidey loves doing art with me. I’ve been really into painting earrings lately, and she surprised me being such a big help with applying gesso! I’m so happy to share my hobby with her. Each of my earrings are a miniature painting. Right now I’m selling them for $15 a pair which is very inexpensive considering how unique each one is. But it’s worth it to move more merchandise now so that I can work out all the bugs in my system.

4H Fair Time

  

My Little Artist

 

Face Painting

Lincoln had to do a costume for his school speech about lizards, so as a painter of course the best thing I could do was paint his face! His teacher told me it freaked her out a bit, and she could hardly look at him-which sounded to me like I did a pretty good job ;)

 

Zaidey

We celebrated my granny Edna Basham's 100th birthday a couple weeks ago! I hope those genes have been passed on to me and I could be fortunate enough to live that long! Here's a picture of my kids swinging at the party with their cousin Elyse--aren't they adorable!? That day was chilly but nice enough for the kids to play outside. While they ran around, my little one (on the far right), Zaidey, fell on the concrete driveway and got a huge goose egg on her knee (you can actually see it in this picture!). She was pretty much over everything else after that and refused to do anything (except swing) until we went home. Even when we got home, though, she refused to walk for like three days. I had to carry that kid everywhere. A week later she is still pointing at her knee crying "boo-boo!" and demands band-aids daily. I think she was a little traumatized! Even though she is two, she really has not gotten any major ouchies during her lifetime, so I think this was a HUGE awakening for her. Sorry baby girl!

Not only is summer almost over . . .

But Lincoln has finished his first month of kindergarten! Where has the time gone?

There were so many stories from the summer that I wanted to blog about, but time ribbons thru my hands. Let's see if I can recap a few things that happened: I got peed on by our billy goat while I trimmed our whether's hooves, our poor kitty Trill disappeared, after filling up our pool constantly we found three holes in the liner, we have mowed our grass like three times all summer, and Zaidey won the baby contest at the fair. I am sure there are a million things I have forgotten, but those are the highlights.

Zaidey has started to babble at seven months old! She started pulling up on things around six months old, and I swear she has been army crawling since four months. She loves when her daddy chases the dog with her and pretends she is riding the dog like a horse. She looks up to her brother and sister already, and she is at this point a confirmed momma's girl.

Trinity started pre-school this year. She is one of the older kids in her class because I held her back (whole day kindergarten scares me for a young five year old! I would rather she be a bit older. . . ), and by chance she is in the same class as two distant cousins of hers! She goes two days a week, three hours a day just like Lincoln did. I love that she is learning both Bible stories and school basics. She also just started gymnastics again after a break over the summer, and we are trying a different facility which so far has been great! She loves it so much I think we are going to stick with it for awhile.

Lincoln has really taken to kindergarten. I am so proud of him. Adam has been taking him to school every morning (which Link loves!), and it started because I was not looking forward to dropping off my baby boy so Adam volunteered to do it for me. What a help that was! I don't think I could have let Lincoln walk in by himself, but Adam did. And it was for the best because I think it really helped his confidence. I have been volunteering in his classroom once a week and I eat lunch with him too. The day really is not that long, but it is so nice to share a little time with him during school.

Looking forward, I recently started taking phone calls for the business, so I now have control of Adam's schedule! ::wink:: I plan for Adam to take a week vacation the first week of October, which is part of Lincoln's fall break. Hoping he can work some on our house, but we will see how it goes.

Easter

What happens when your three year old gets a hold of your phone?

This! Thanks Trinity : ) These pictures are actually pretty good lol.

Lincoln at five and a half

 My oldest, Lincoln I am so proud of you. Already I can see that you are going to be a great man. You care for your sisters with all your heart and have genuine concern for others. You are very strong and determined, and use your vivid imagination to get all the bad guys. Even though you are strong you would rather sleep in our bed at night, and one of your favorite things to do is play on the computer with your dad. You love the color green and the Hobbit movies, and most of all Jesus. I love you.