#155 - Don't Like Being Stuck at Home

Remembering April's Quarantine

I've been thinking about all the time Don and I have spent together, since March. We've been a good quarantine team, but I've envied friends who were "stuck" at home with their families.

For the past 10 days, I feel like our family has sort of been "playing quarantine" together. It's as if we are happily trapped on a boat, or an island. I mean that in a good way.

It's been so nice sitting together with no plans. Bundling up on one chilly evening and scalding our feet in spa water, another!

​Alone Time
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​It's been nice being together long enough, that we can also be apart. 

Scott spent a couple mornings focused on work. Don kept up with the news, during breakfast. Jamie and Heidi played a little music.

It's been nice listening to the sounds of guitar and piano, floating around the rental house. 

Chali did some puzzle work and Heidi actually colored in an old coloring book... at least for a little while.

Chali set up the best meditation spot at the cabin. She's been our garden tender, at the coast house.

Together

It's been nice to also have some one on one time.

Scott and Chali played... with juggling balls and skulls!

The expecting parents looked through Heidi's old baby books. Don and Scott talked on the patio, as the sun set.

Safely Together

I'm realistic enough to know that our quarantine vacation has not been the same as a forced quarantine... with jobs or school stresses.

But I will remember our isolated Oregon getaway, as the highlight of the pandemic!