Hello everyone out in quarantine land!
How is the stay-home order treating you? Me? Just getting back into the groove as much as I can with a lot of events being cancelled or postponed on our return to The Clarkston News.
What isn’t cancelled? Continuing to write out to-do lists. It helps focus and I had one when we were on our 40-plus day break.
My quarantine to-do list had 24 things on it. I got about four things done. Though nine of those was another to-do list off scrapbooking.
I did create 37 pages for scrapbooking with four pages for my childhood album and the rest was for JD’s first-year album, which I only have a few months left. I have gotten to the point of not scrapbooking every photo, but still have some pages to go.
Luckily, I did not run out of adhesive and still have about six tape runners to go before it’s time to panic. I did not do a lot but I did make bigger piles on the desk and in the office of what to work on next.
I didn’t do a spring clean or organize a lot. But the sizes and seasons for the boys’ clothes are ready to go.
Most of my time was spent with the boys as we both got used to a change in routine.
JD accomplished his 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten and now we wait until the library reopens. Seventeen-month-old Oliver continues to be entertained by books.
Both are entertained by the tons of Hot Wheels gifted to them by their cousin, Zach. Oliver could spend all day just sending cars down the orange ramps, usually connected in one long ramp.

As for myself, I read four books during the break – two Kindle books from the Penny Green series by Emily Organ and two of the three books I borrowed from our local library, The Golden Key by Marian Womack and The Broken Girls by Simone St. James. I usually don’t post reviews but I will say I was mixed about The Golden Key. It was the flow, sometimes it was a smooth read and other times it dragged. Now The Broken Girls, I couldn’t put down, but I did put it down because, well, kids and sleep.
Maybe I will be able to finish the third book borrowed from the library before they reopen. Maybe.