It’s currently 19°C and overcast. The kids decided to take advantage of the weather and the new front porch. Good thing Neil maximized its footprint.
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Activities / Covid19
Outdoor activities
Since March began, the weather has been continuing to improve and we’ve been doing more exploring close to home. These are from the trails in the ravine just by home: Exploring G Ross Lord Park, a 5 min drive away from home: A different portion of G Ross Lord Park:
Covid19 / Food
When Felix makes his meals
Since he’s virtual schooling, he often makes his own breakfasts and lunches. There’s always a theme … If I took a picture of every meal where he makes eggs, there’d be hundreds of pictures since it’s been almost 365 days since schools shut down last March. We go through 4 dozen eggs every week!
Activities / Covid19
Chicken coop delivery
Eggciting news, but the coop is not for us. Neil helped a friend move a chicken coop that he was receiving. It took three cars (to keep the family groups separated) and our trailer. Now we wait to see when the chickens arrive.
Activities / Covid19
Snow Play
After several days of snow, we had to take advantage of the winter activities available in the neighbourhood.
Covid19 / Projects
Playing Hooky
The Littles decided to claim Tuesday Feb 16 as their combined birthday day-off-school day. It extended their long weekend to 5 days, and in spite of the lockdown, it was loads of fun. The planned the activities for the day in advance together, and put it in a spreadsheet and shared it: What did we […]
Celebrations / Covid19
Happy Chinese New Year – Ox
The same friend who talked me into hot pot meal for celebrating Chinese New Year last year loaned us a divided pot for our meal this year so we could have two different flavours of soup. Happy New Year!
Covid19 / Hikes
Claireville Conservation Hike
There was no school on Friday so we thought it might be a good day for a short hike. This conservation area is only 25 mins from home and we invited another family with three kids to join us. Everyone was masked and all six kids had a blast roaming the various landscapes.
Activities / Covid19
Calico Critters Washing Machine
One day, Lara decided she needed to wash the clothes of her Calico Critters. After designing for much of the day, she decided to get to work making her creation.
Celebrations / Covid19
16th Anniversary
Since we have to stay home, the kids got creative for the event.