Month: April 2020
Today I attempted real haircuts for the boys. I really just attempted to barely trim the boys, but everybody is starting to look shaggy and it doesn’t appear haircuts are going to be normal again anytime soon. In general, the haircut went about as well as the pictures I asked Alex to take. (Here’s hoping the world opens back up soon.)
After Kaitlyn’s latest haircut session with her dolls, I kept worrying she would attempt to cut her own hair again. I have talked to her several times. I thought I had hidden all of the scissors. Obviously those weren’t working. It was time for a new strategy. She and I got on Amazon and we picked out a doll with long hair that was bought just for haircutting. I told her she could cut all she wanted. When the doll had no hair then we would buy her a new doll. Fingers crossed that this works…
Our old house didn’t sell immediately and we were anxious to move last summer. We moved some stuff and furniture, but left the majority of our things for a few weeks knowing that a house sells better when it is staged. Then we moved it all and left the house on the market. The house still didn’t sell. We didn’t officially pull our house off the market with the pandemic but we knew no one would be looking. We used this time to do some of the upgrades we had been hoping to avoid. We painted, put in new carpet, and upgraded the fireplace area. We also decided to remove the large green hutch in the kitchen area to make the room seem bigger. During all of this we got a new listing agent and decided to try again knowing we would be one of the few houses on the market because we weren’t worried about having people walk through our house, which is thankfully empty.
Keeping up with Ben while keeping everyone else on track during school hours is proving to be very challenging. My favorite time of day is nap time. Today, I walked into the kitchen to find HUGE purple circles all over the bench cushions in our window seat. There were no markers in site so I am hoping and praying they were made with washable marker. I have no doubt which child decided to redecorate for me.


Update: I washed the covers and all the marker came out! Crisis averted.
My heart sank when I sat down to my computer and saw the green lines on my screen. The last time this happened, Wade was able to fix my computer by baking some components. However, I’m always afraid of lost data and being without a computer for a long period of time. This time it was a quicker fix and I am once again thankful for a husband who can fix most anything.
I will be the first to admit there has been less supervision of Ben in the chaos of the last few weeks. He is into everything all the time – but mostly because I am trying to keep the other three on track with everything they are doing. Wade is busy figuring out a new job with a new company combined with working fully from home.
At some point I realized Ben was getting his iPad at playing at will. I put it up on a high shelf and thought that would take care of the matter. Today I walked in and Ben was again playing his iPad. It took some strategic questioning to figure out if he got the iPad or if one of his siblings got it for him. Once I determined Ben got the iPad, I asked him to show me exactly how he got it. Below is his demonstration.