Photo Every Hour: April 21st (Quarantine Edition Part Two)

Is anyone really shocked that I'm doing a Quarantine Edition Part Two? The real question at this point is whether or not there will be a Part Three and/or what Part Three will look like since it almost certainly won't be "normal" (although who knows what "normal" will be anymore...)

I forgot to snag a picture at Matthew's 4AM wake up (I'm sure you all miss that picture terribly) and although this is what time my alarm first went off... 

This is what time I actually ended up getting out of bed (can I call that sleeping in? I think I can). Darrell has had his hours cut at work so he is only working three day weeks. Monday and Tuesday are his days off, and while there's a certain element of excitement over regular four day weekends, his PTO won't last forever. 

8:00 Breakfast views. Connor has long been done because he insists on eating immediately after he wakes up, but shortly after the picture he did come back to the table for twosies (and I wonder sometimes why I can't keep my grocery purchases within my budget)

9:00 William working on a gym assignment. He was on a scavenger hunt for certain items, but he was required to "move" in a certain way for each item. This is his army crawl (and please disregard Darrell changing a poopy diaper in the background)

10:00 Fairly accurate representation of our quarantine life: William doing school work on the iPad, Garrett playing with Matthew, and Connor doing who knows what. And everyone in their pajamas. Oh, and a mess all over the place. Cleanliness standards have really deteriorated lately

11:00 Quick, everyone, mad dash to Costco!

12:00 My (fairly typical) Costco haul: Peanut butter, fresh fruit, and pantry/supply items (aka toilet paper). I honestly hate myself a little bit for having bought the toilet paper because we still had at least half a dozen rolls at the house, but people have been such idiots about toilet paper lately that I didn't want to pass it up and then not be able to find any when we actually needed some. And usually I try to pick it up when it is on sale, but let's be honest--with the demand lately that probably isn't going to happen for a good long time

1:00 Trying out the exersaucer for the first time--I think he likes it!

2:00 Snack time!

3:00 Taking advantage of the nice weather and Daddy being home to go out and get some fresh air (and--not pictured--play some disc golf per one of William's PE assignments. They were encouraged to do it at home with buckets and yogurt container lids, but I figured we had the means to do the real thing so why not?:

4:00 A robin decided to build a nest on the light fixture outside our back door. Garrett gave it a partial thumbs up--he thinks the location is nice so we can lift him up to see the eggs, but he isn't too impressed with the execution of the nest 

5:00 Don't get me started on this one and his naps... 

6:00 Fajita night!

7:00 S'more time!

8:00 So grateful to have a husband who helps our around the house....

9:00 So that I can pay the bills and balance the budget (for the record, I'm not sure which one of us got the short end of that stick)

10:00 Updating our letter board with a little NCIS in the background

I forgot to snap a photo before bed, but it's safe to assume lights were out somewhere around 10:45. That's been our pretty standard bedtime lately, and as much as I would love to get to bed earlier it always seems like there is so much that we want to/need to do in the evenings after the kids go to bed that it just isn't possible to get to bed any earlier 

Photo Every Hour: March 21st (Quarantine Edition Part One)

Well, the good news is that since I like to get my posts up in chronological order, the fact that Matthew was born on the 22nd of the month and I take my Photo Every Hour pictures on the 21st means I'll be forced to get these posts up in a timely matter. The bad news is that I don't have anything holding me accountable for getting Matthew's monthly updates posted in a timely manner... Except the next "Photo Every Hour" post nearly a full month later. Oh well. You win some, you lose some.

Without further ado, welcome to Photo Every Hour #QuarantineEditionPartOne. Because let's be real--this s!%* isn't going to be over by April 21st when I take my next round of photos.

I forgot to take a picture during the feeding (sorry that you missed out on the photo of Matthew's backside), but I'm not even upset when this was his only feeding of the night

Sleeping in, Mom-style

8:00 Time for my first shower of the week #quarantinelife

9:00 Oh, hi empty grocery store shelves. Guess lots of people have decided to use their quarantine time to do some baking. Or, you know, they are probably just hoarding stuff like flour because #panic and #irrationalthinking

10:00 Garrett got some Shrinky Dinks for his birthday and watching them shrink in the oven is apparently awesome

11:00 Apparently I still have to pay the bills in quarantine #lame

12:00 Running a few more errands and soaking up every minute of being out of the house

1:00 I swear I'm not hoarding, this is honestly just (a portion of) how many vegetables I need to buy for a normal week's worth of meals

2:00 Taking a few minutes of R&R while *someone* is supposed to be napping in his swing (but isn't)

3:00 Reason 394,485 why I need so much food in my house--my kids think snacks are appropriate at all hours of the day

4:00 Someone finally fell asleep for his nap--and big(est) brother is entertaining himself with a game of solitaire 

5:00 Game time--I spy with my little eye four boys killing time until dinner!

6:00 Saturdays are for pizza and beer, quarantine or not

7:00 Making smoothies is apparently a very loud process

8:00 The kid is only two months old and he's already giving me attitude #itsgoingtobealong18years 

9:00 Updating the budget to figure out how much money we have to help support small businesses during the quarantine (spoiler--not much #sixpeopleoneincome)

10:00 Still trying to be productive by getting some pictures ready to print off for my grandpa who is stuck in his room in his assisted living facility, but at least I have a drink in my hand and "Friends" on the TV

Quarantine Bedtime is only slightly later than "normal" bedtime--my kids definitely don't understand the concept that they can sleep in if they want to