well, that escalated quickly!

hello from our new, strange world! last monday feels like it was months ago with all that has evolved. i kept ashford home from school on monday and tuesday because he had a steady temperature of 99 (which i learned is not technically considered a fever) and a cough. he went back to school on wednesday...for one day. 

wednesday afternoon we learned that seattle public schools would be closing down for 2 weeks effective thursday. the teachers barely had any time to prep for it. at pick up time, all the kids were running around giddily and all the parents looked like deer in the headlights. 2 weeks sounded kinda rough, but i was like "whatever, we can just wing it." 

fast forward to the next day. i had the kids do some worksheets from school, we read a little. it felt like a saturday. we met vanessa and ewan at the locks because #outdoorplaydate. when we got home, the governer announced that all washington schools would be closed though april 24th *gulp*. 6 weeks with no school. that said, i am extremely thankful that we do not have the burden of scrambling to find childcare. thatcher is now working from home full-time and my job is always from home (and very limited hours). we have a safe, warm, home, stocked with food (and toilet paper). but oh my is this going to be an experience! 

i decided thursday night that "winging it" was no longer going to work and we needed to develop at least a loose schedule for the week days. otherwise we (mostly me) will all go crazy. this is what i came up with: 

7:00 breakfast, get ready, kids watch tv while we get ready

8:30 workbooks from school, reading, writing

9:30 board game

10:00 snack

10:30 art time

11:30 lunch

12:00 outside time (playing in the yard or go for walk/scooter ride)

1:00 online learning games

2:00 snack

3:00 playdoh, coloring, marble run, etc.

the kids enjoyed crossing off the things we had done and looking forward to the next thing. it wasn't all sunshine and daisies, but it was better than the day before where we had no plan. thatcher is working from downstairs and came up to eat snacks with us and check in, and the kids were allowed to be downstairs with him some if they were quiet. 

now it's the weekend and while we still can't really go out and do anything, we can be more relaxed. 

when we learned school was shutting down, we hopped on airbnb to look for somewhere to go for a few days to hunker down. we can bring our laptops and we can have a change of scenery while we all hang out. we found a nice place in newport, or (on the coast). we are leaving tomorrow for 5 days and i'm really looking forward to it.