On Mar 13, since Lara was sick anyway, we kept all three kids at home. It turned out to be our first day of social distancing given how things unfolded. Since we cancelled the trip to Costa Rica during March Break, and then schools did not reopen due to covid-19, we’ve been at home a […]
Activities / Covid19
1000 piece puzzle: Cinque-Terre, Italy
This was chosen as soon as the previous Ocean Colours was completed. Even with the lending, we still have over 30 puzzles under the basement stairs (thanks to one kijiji purchase, a few garage sales and Grandpa!). Still taking about a week to complete the puzzles – this was done on Apr 8.
Activities / Covid19
750-piece Witches Kitchen Escape Puzzle
We borrowed this puzzle from a lady down the street who bought one of our puzzles off kijiji.
Activities / Covid19
1000 piece puzzle: Ocean Colours
Felix chose the next puzzle from our stash is one that Grandpa brought. This was completed a week after the Political World Map, on Apr 2. By this time, I’d shared out about 10 puzzle to friends from our stash under the basement stairs. The process is to choose ones we hadn’t worked on in […]
Covid19
Scattegories
Scattegories is a game the we started playing during our time at home. The goal of the game is to name objects in a series of categories starting with a specific letter. The letter is determined by rolling a die, and you only get a point if your answer is unique. Here are some of […]
Activities / Covid19
1000 piece puzzle: Political World Map
We haven’t done puzzles in a very long time. Without the benefit of activities involving others, we checked out our collection of 1000-piece puzzles. This took about a week, completed on Mar 26.
Activities
Saturday shenanigans
In preparation of our trip to Costa Rica, Lara decided she wanted to make her own zip line (with Neil’s help, of course).
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School strikes
Schools were closed this Thursday and Friday due to strikes – the kids did not mind at all! Good thing there are kids in the neighbourhood they can work off their energy with. Lara also made dumplings from scratch for dinner. She made the dough as well as the filling. I helped a tiny bit […]
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Blue Sky Solar Racing Team
Lara had a CAGIS event this morning at the University of Toronto to meet with its Blue Sky Solar Racing Team. They learnt about sustainability, renewable energy, solar power, and solar cars; and they got to check out “Viridian”, U of T’s solar car that was used to race 3,000 km from Darwin to Adelaide […]