I love hearing this girl play.

As she finished practicing today, I begged her to let me record the Bach Suite (no. 2).

Caeden got his phone today.

We were getting ready to watch a movie tonight, and Caeden made us watch  Bad Lip Reading High School Musical first.  All 3 of our children find this hilarious.

They sing along and crack up the whole time!

Goofies!!!

 

Good morning!  Here is our county's daily update.  So odd to be seeing things like this in the news constantly...

Happy Palm Sunday!

Annah grabbing a quick college-student-style breakfast before church

After church, Caeden and Ryan played a little Rocket League. 

Green beans are one of my favorite things to make, and we are so fortunate to these from Mom and Dad's garden, along with herbs Dad grew and dried as well.  

So yummy.

This afternoon, we watched the new Disney movie Onward.  It was really cute.  It has been so great to have the free Disney+ subscription during this time!

Ryan came back by after work for a little bit tonight to help Sylvia work on her skateboarding.

I had promised Caeden I'd make him biscuits and gravy after wrestling season was over, and I hadn't gotten around to it--until today.

When we get "bored" around here, we send our family group goofy SnapChat photos and we all laugh.

The girls and I colored Easter eggs today!  We used lemon juice instead of vinegar.  It worked really fast and the colors were pretty and intense.  

Sylvia joined a dozen of her Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp friends today for a Zoom concert.  Each of them played a Bach solo for the others. So many of them are having concerts, recitals, tours, auditions, competitions and lessons canceled right now, I thought it was such a wonderful beautiful way for them to connect and console one another.

Annah practiced her makeup skills this afternoon when she needed a break from school work.  

There is no "new normal"

I am really emotional today.  Jeremy brought in the mail this morning, and there was a box addressed to me.  I opened it and found these Disney World scented candles that Dawn sent us to remind us of the wonderful memories of our vacation there together!  I bawled.  

All ready to try a Zoom piano lesson with Carly...

It did not go so well...No fault of hers, but there was trouble getting a good connection and it wasn't really video.  And the audio was awful...when she played a song with the pedal it sounded staccato.  Next week we will try a different platform.  It was really wonderful to see her, for sure!  It just proved that live video is not an option for all 16 of my students.  :(

Jeremy did the grocery run today.  He also got carry out from Moe's--our first food pickup since the stay-at-home order.  I forgot to order queso though, so that was a big bummer.

Snaps

Took a walk with Sylv and Caed this afternoon.  These buds on this tree are such an awesome color!!!

Sylvia wore her crafty jeans and we took some pics on the stairs of the church.

I wanted to get a picture to replicate this one...

Tried to get a pictuer of Sylvia, but someone else wanted in too...

Walking home

Sylvia spent some time skating.

I used the sidewalk chalk.

This afternoon, Sylvia put in the Barbie Island Princess dvd singalong version, and she and Caeden sang along.  Too funny.

Ridgeview's production of Guys and Dolls was supposed to open tonight.  Sylvia has dreamed of playing the part of Adelaide since she was a little girl and first saw the movie.  She choreographed the entire show and had taught all the dances to the cast. She had chosen costumes from the closet at school, from Amazon, and had gone to the theatre warehouse with Mr. M.  She had spent countless hours listening to and practicing the music.  So had the whole cast.  When Mr. M realized he had no other choice but to cancel the show, he called me and asked to tell Sylvia personally.  She and everyone knew it was coming, but it was really kind of him to let her know himself.  He said he will for sure do Guys and Dolls for the musical next year, but he will have to re-audition and re-cast it. Sylvia cried.  Caeden was disappointed, but knows he should have more opportunities through his high school career.

This evening, even though she hadn't practiced in 3 weeks, Sylvia put on a dress and lipstick and sang through Adelaide's Lament in her bedroom.  I was glad to be her audience, and I cried. I hope someday she will get the chance to play Adelaide.

I apologize for the lack of posting over the past many months. Sometimes I get to busy and get behind and post a month's worth of posts at a time.  Sometimes (like this time) I have trouble with Blogger.  I finally figured out that the trouble I've been having with Blogger for the past year and a half is from having too many Google accounts signed in on one device!  If I sign out of all accounts, then Blogger works just fine!  Of course it gets confused with 10 different accounts wanting to be signed in!  Anyway...hopefully with that figured out and my being home and nonessential during this pandemic, I will get caught up.  Not that I will have that much content now...since everything is canceled.

It is such a weird feeling of waiting. 

Jeremy took advantage of a BOGO iPhone deal through Verizon last week, and yesterday my new phone arrived.  Here is a photo I accidentally took with it while I was setting it up.  Annah is working on getting my "old" phone set up to use as hers.  Caeden's first phone will arrive in a few days.

This morning it was absolutely gorgeous outside, and Caeden and I went for a walk around the village.

Love this teenager!

This afternoon, Sylvia spent some time with her skateboard.

While she rode in the road, I pulled last fall's leaves out of the flower beds in front of our house and filled a whole trash can.  It was such a beautiful day to be outside!

This evening, as Caeden was getting warmed up for his guitar lesson, he played a few songs for me.  I love how slow and mellow this one is!