better than nothing (68/365e)

Brian and I had morning coffee and some 10-minute cleanup 

then Nina and I had morning coffee and dream interpretation hour.

The morning was suddenly over and I hadn't done much by way of productivity. but in the early afternoon we got a big delivery of wooden boxes that we arranged as bookshelves in our room and now we have books under our window too, and it looks so nice now! It feels like we have twice as much space.

there was a special edition of the women wikipedia group in honor of yesterday's Frauentag wikipedia where we collaboratively added the new winners of this years frauenpreis in graz. Felt a bit upset about the report given about the enormous gender-bias in wikipedia, although I wasn't learning anything new.

Didn’t go outside at all until Brian took me for a walk at 10pm - just a very short just-around-the-block-but-better-than-nothing walk.

 

women's day (67/365e)

Straight back to Mondays full of STUFF again 

I had my Elke lesson in the morning. I brought back my library movie (I have had it out for months what with lockdowns, holidays and quarantine and renewals) and bought flowers for Elke on my way there. Today would have been my exam. Waaaah 

Everyone was in school again! Henry and Felix took the hornet’s nest in with them to show their classes, and were very proud of it.

 and it since today IS Frauentag, Nina and I celebrated a tiny bit in the evening, while Theodore was at his Elke lesson. 

When Theodore came home, we listened to light princess and swiss family robinson, had fun with all the evening entertainment stuff, and then as we were getting ready to fall into bed he suddenly "remembered" he had homework. Oops. He did it in a sloppy quick way and I promised if he was up early enough he could rewrite it and fix any mistakes he found then. With that he was appeased. It's kind of junky to have so much extra stuff on monday and also have lots of extra homework today too, just by chance.

domestic goddess - baking and sewing (66/365e)

Test result: Negative! Got the message at 7:30am and went promptly for a walk around the block with felix

We had 3 kinds of muffins (Berry, corn and carob) for breakfast and read a wonder clock play (The staff the fiddle) for breakfast. Just what people wanted. 

Then a looong overdue hike up falkenweg. It was a terrific hike with no camera, no real snacks, no people. Just views and adventures (no morels though) - we took a path we had never tried and it was very steep downhill. Thankfully we didn't have to retrace our steps. Felix fell and cut open his belly and was badly hurt, but he recovered when I washed the wound and we bravely forged on. 

Everyone was in such a good mood. We decided that from now on every kick/pinch/punch/hit costs a dollar - it's cheap at that, i think!

By the time we got home and made dinner, I was in a hurry and there was just salad. salad for everyone! and they surprisingly all ate with gusto.

In the evening, I was very domestic... I sewed rice bags, mostly with Henry, and did more curtain shortening.

Celebrated end of quarantine with Centa and Brian until late in the night.

cheers to being allowed to leave the house again

dreams come true(65/365e)

I had a half dream yesterday that we put our too-big bookshelf on its side and used it in the kids room, so I suggested that to Brian and he made my dream come true. It was really fun that everyone helped build the shelves for the now extra-long version of the bookshelf. Then we organized lots of books – huge huge improvement!

need a board, so we unscrew one from up here
a helper is better than a ladder

distracted by a martin gardener book

henry with the power tools

Theodore went shopping alone for us again – to the farmer’s market and to the spar. 

Brian went for a 50timesaroundthehouse run with Felix and Henry... Possibly the last, if we get a negative test result. 

Papa read from Swiss Family Robinson, we started a bit late and he read quite long, but it was wonderful. 

Elke called to give me feedback on the video I had sent her. I can stop practicing the pieces. Just focus on technical exercises and things so that I don't overdo the music because now I have an extra month to practice. 

Nice talk with Bruno at night, about playing the piano and finger tricks to play on people.like locking the ring finger with the middle finger. 

flubbered (64/365e)

Now that Theodore is allowed to go outside again, he was a darling and left the house to get groceries for us before his 7:40 online meeting. That's true love. It meant I had milk with my coffee. Theodore then had the ultimate luxury of organ practicing and sing-schule in person. And then he took out the recycling - finally it's not around here anymore!

we want to be let out of quarantine soon too... so testing for all of us

It was a rainyish gray day. Set out to remove my diastis rectis... 6 weeks of exercises will possibly cure it... maybe? If I don't forget about it.

Unannounced (although, where would we be?) the red cross visited us again for our second corona test. 

In the bath I told Felix the general story about the little prince which he's apparently completely forgotten.

Kobold week was such a success that we got to watch Flubber (actually the Absent Minded Professor) ... After the movie Theodore "flubbered" himself into a bloody nose. - By jumping and kicking wildly around and accidentally kicking himself in the face. Henry jumped on the bed screaming he had invented flubber... All at 10pm. Good night!

Crocus day! (63/365e)

Crocus day! - A reference to a Jackanory story called "Little Nose the Joker" - It's like april fool's day, only it happens whenever you see the first crocus of the season. Felix has been on the lookout for one since the beginning of February. He's been planning tricks since last year. Despite all the mischievousness, everyone's mood was extremely volatile: they were quick to cry and I was quick to shout. Oh boy.

Despite that we did have fun playing tricks and playing music... Theodore even played violin for papa and mama over zoom after we read the light princess.

intercontinental concert

As it happens Theodore's quarantine ends tomorrow, even though we had been promised yesterday or today. He had to miss his singing-trio rehearsal because I had been sure that he would be out of quarantine by this afternoon. In fact we got a call that said we have to wait for a special document before Theodore can leave. Ah sweet mysteries of life.

sleepy day (62/365e)

Today was a Sleepy day... I was up at 430 and back in bed at7. I even took a mid-afternoon nap. I was sore all day from my workout yesterday. I need more exercise in my life, this quarantine is not healthy!

Henry has finally almost caught up on his homework by doing a little extra (or a lot extra) each day. 

For dinner I made leftover vegetable soup into savory schmarn and I made a spinach quiche which was so popular i didn't get a piece... We ate outside in the sun: how lovely that we can do that every day right now, without that we would go crazy I think. 

lovely reading moment

Papa started light princess which Agnes "loves".

What's really weird is a movie called Sylvia Scarlett which Brian and I watched this evening.