Every Day is Earth Day

I realize I’m two days too late on this post, but that’s the glory with Earth Day. In truth, we should be celebrating this glorious planet every day and we should be teaching our children to do the same. We’re pretty good about recycling and trying to reduce our waste, but of course we can all do better.

Cue conscious kids. I have been doing various “learning” activities with Colin and sometimes it results in my printing out coloring or activity sheets. For Earth Day, Aiden pointed out the irony of wasting paper for Earth Day activities. Nailed that one buddy. Back to the dry erase marker activities it is!

So what else are we doing everyday? Well two things we’ve been kept busy by almost every day are nature walks and working in our garden. So here are a few highlights. I’ll share more details about each of these later, but here are a few fun ones in honor of this week and this post.

Recent hike at a nearby county park

Our garden! flowers, peas, spinach and arugula pictured, with lettuce, kale and radishes also growing!

38 Days of Quarantine

Well for the last oh, 17 days, I’ve been thinking I should resurrect the blog. Well I guess the time has come. It’s only taken 38 days by my count to make it happen. I figured a perfect way to celebrate this milestone was to go over what we’ve done, and haven’t done over the last 38 days at home.

What we’ve done:
Played outside
Planted vegetables and flowers
Played board games
Read books
Gone on hikes
Baked
Put together puzzles
Gone on longer runs
Watched a lot of Netflix
Catchy frogs and salamanders
Ridden our bikes
Laughed
Cried
Gotten cranky and fed up

What we haven’t done:
Massive purge and clean
Mastered new skills
Skipped dessert
Watched Tiger King
Slept late

I don’t foresee anything coming off that “haven’t done” lost coming anytime soon, but I sure do hope we keep up with all the stuff on the “done” list...though I could do with less crying and getting cranky. Here’s a photo to show you our real life right now.