Coronacation Week 11 May 24-30

This week included Memorial Day. And the big celebration for us was that we found and purchased a freezer!  It feels like such an accomplishment! And it’s a great ego boost to Becky and me that we got it from the car, in the house, down the stairs to the basement and installed. We did also buy a small appliance dolly and that helped a lot.

This week Ally had 2 tumble play dates, we did a puzzle, some art and ate some delicious food.

Ally has started sleeping on the 3rd floor so she can sleep with Cloey.

And sometimes Daisy too.

I cut Becky’s hair again.

Tumbling and leaping and jumping with Eliana.

Becky made another batch of masks. I think her total now is around 150.

The puzzle, which was actually harder than it looks.

While Becky drove to pick up the freezer I made room

in the basement.

We rewarded ourselves with Root beer floats!

Pet costumes were selected and ordered. Above Daisy is in a Troll headdress and below Cloey is sleeping in her wedding dress.

But the highlight was Cloey in her wizard costume.

Oranges for breakfast.

I spent some time on the porch when Becky went to school one morning.

She took a picture of her classroom. 30 desks. No way to have that many and still maintain social distancing in September. It will be interesting to see what will happen.


Ally went to Mari’s house to tumble. That’s Ally on the trampoline. Unfortunately the date was cut short because Ally started to have a bad reaction to the tree pollen. Her eyes swelled up and she was super uncomfortable. It was not good. Eye drops, a shower, Benadryl and 14 hours of sleep is what it took to recover.

Cloey really doesn’t like sharing Becky’s lap with the computer.

Becky’s outfit. I told her she was looking a little too coordinated.

An amazing feast for dinner one night; pulled bbq chicken, roasted asparagus and homemade potato salad.

Ally is loving spending time with her pets.

And on Saturday Ally went to Beth’s house while a Becky and I attended a small memorial service for a co-worker and friend’s wife. It was the longest any of us had been out of the house and socializing with people other than just the 3 of us in 11 weeks. 

3 weeks for Becky and 4 weeks for Ally until the end of School. I get back into my office a bit more each week but until school is out I’ll continue to work from home mostly.

Coronacation Week 10 May 18-23

10 weeks. I never thought this “stay at home” situation would last this long. But here we are 10 weeks in. There are still 4+ weeks left of school, no gymnastics or any youth extracurricular activities, we are wearing masks to go and do anything outside our own private  yards, it’s a bizarre time.

On Wednesdays there are 4 moms and daughters who meet up at our local park for lunch and conversation. Ally has not joined us, but I go and this week one of the moms talked about how we should think of this as our “now normal” not our “new normal” because life as we know will get back to normal eventually. But that it was going to take longer than any of us want and it will be in this current state for a long time. It will be our “now normal” for months, maybe even a year or longer. 

It was and is helpful for me to remember that. 

This week wasn’t as fun filled as week 9 but it was still pretty good. We started a new project at work so I’ve been busier than usual. 

On Monday Ally participated in a social media project for her gym.

Daisy found a new place to hide; in the bins at the top shelf of Ally’s closet!!! Ally texted me this picture with the plea “I need a little help” 

Crazy cat.

I finally hung up pictures for gallery walls around the house. I’d like to get some more frames and pictures. But these were a lot of work so we will see.

Ally has started doing TikTok with Daisy!

Ally and Becky were that close to finishing Granny that game they started in week 9.

Lots of bonding for them this week. 

I modeled new company masks for my social media pages.

We got a zero gravity recliner for the back porch.

Ally had lunch at Colette’s.

And spent some time sprawled on her bed with Daisy that afternoon. Note: Daisy in her dress.

I’m starting to think Ally’s favorite part of doing a puzzle is breaking it up!

We started a new puzzle.

Ally asked for sleep on the guest bed/futon with Becky so she could sleep with Cloey. 

Cloey who is now wearing Daisy’s dress.

Ally sent me these two pictures.

Super cute.

My family in the morning.

We got some new outfits for Cloey for Becky’s weekly school message. Here they are mid-photo-shoot.

Cloey got a new crate. She HATES it. We put her food bowl in it and she barked for 45 minutes refusing to go in. Finally Becky shoved Cloey in and shut the door.

This crate looks so much nicer in the kitchen than her old one. We hope she gets used to it.

Ally asked for Nutella. We usually get an all natural chocolate hazelnut spread but she heard there was a knife inside the lid of Nutella brand. Turns out there is not but she found out she likes Nutella.

Coronacation Week 9 May 11-17

9 weeks I can hardly believe it’s been 9 weeks of this and we have many many more to go.

The new thing this week was the game Granny. Ally and Becky played it a lot. Apparently it’s about a scary Granny who has a club and if she finds you she will beat you to death with the club.

They scream in fear sometimes. Crazy if you ask me.

The salad....again. This is Becky eating it at 10pm while on a Zoom Happy Hours call with some of her co-workers. Note the empty wine glass and flushed face. Becky is having a fun Coronacation.

It’s not a weekly post without some Ally and Daisy cuteness.

Thursday Ally had a tumble date at her teammate Stella’s house. They also had a water balloon fight with Stella’s sister and her friend.

Ally decided to stay and do Zoom practice with Stella. It was her first practice in 9 weeks.



Stella’s dog made things a little complicated!

Ally had a blast.

The Cloey costume of the week was Cloey wearing a mask.

On Friday Ally went to Colette’s house for lunch. I forgot to get a picture of them.

On Saturday Becky and I went to pick up an order at Target. There were over 50 people waiting to get in the store. The employees said it was at least a 30 minute wait. 

Becky had a short 5 minute wait outside for our order while I waited in the car.

We did restaurant pick up again on Saturday. 

And while we did the dinner pick up and Target run Ally was at Ellie’s house. They of course did TikTok and as a treat walked to get Frozen Yogurt. I ordered it online for them to pick up. 

Playing Granny in bed!

Sunday Ally had a Zoom Birthday party for Stella. All 8 teammates were on the call. They giggled and squealed and banned moms and siblings from their party locations. In advance of the party Stella’s mom has dropped off a party bag. Each bag had cupcakes, glass, sparkling juice, champagne flute, napkin, paper plate, nail polish, face mask, candle and a packet of papers that had party games on them. So the girls did face masks, had a trivia contest, voting games, ate cupcakes. Had a fun party from their remote homes.

Mother’s Day 2020

Mother’s Day during Coronacation isn’t that much different.

I cut Becky’s hair again. I texted a picture to our stylist and she was impressed! The secret is a little at a time. I think I’ll be trimming it again this weekend. 

This picture shows off the new earrings I gave Becky for Mother’s Day. Sapphires! 

The card from Ally means the most. It kind of makes up for all the struggle. 

Becky gave me new Apple AirPods I asked for.

And Becky posed with her salad:

Ally was so excited to have Cloey snuggle in bed.