Ok. I could have cleaned that picture up a bit. It made me laugh. I have learned many lessons from staying home and quarantining during this virus. I don’t want to forget the lesson. It’s important.
The things I’ve learned:
- Heavenly Father is real
- I work too hard. It isn’t healthy.
- It is time to really slow down.
- I have three extra hours a day because I am not communting or really getting ready.
- I am using some of that time to sleep a glorious amount of time each night.
- As the quarantine marches on the less sleep I need at night. My body is recovering from being completely, utterly, depleated, and exhausted.
- Excercising outside each day brings pure happiness and joy.
- Today I was working but got distracted for a second by a tree outside my window that was blowing in the wind. It was so beautiful and green and wild.
- I have baked fresh bread twice. When the kids are home and it is the BEST.
- Canning your own strawberry jam is rewarding and yummy.
- Canning your own beans in several varieties is also rewarding.
- Weekends are for the first time in probably eight years a real weekend. Because of that extra three hours each day….my house is clean, the laundry is done during the week. Freeing us…to well there isn’t too much to do but hiking has been fun!
- I have time to be still. Ponder. Meditate and get direction.
- Friends and family are the best medicine
- Walking with your girlfriends is the best gift
- Loving others and being loved is a gift! Time. Time is a gift. Talking and connecting is a gift.
- It is fun to sit on the front porch and visit.
- It is fun when friends ride their bikes to your house and visit. I feel like I live in the Regency Era and I love it.
- QT is open and an essential business. Diet Cokes!
- It feels good to get weekend projects completed on the weekend.
- Ellies room has been re-done. It is so cute!
- The upstairs loft has been scoured and re-arranged.
- I now have an in home office in my bedroom
- It feels luxerious to have the energy to watch an episode of a tv show before bed. I am usually so tired. Like so so tired. I can’t even describe how tired it’s like compounding levels of tired.
- I feel real joy. True joy.
- I really look forward more than I already do to eat at my parents on Sunday. We have the sacrament. We talk and play games or do puzzles and its fun. I love my family the most.
- My kids and I instead of rushing around last Sunday night to get lunches made and everything ready for school on Monday sat in the newly cleaned loft and watched Onward. Which is such a cute movie and I loved the heros were brothers! I was so happy to be together watching the movie.
- I love playing games with my kids at night.
- I love making, planning, and preparing delcious meals each night.
- I am a little tired of cooking…but the schools are giving free lunches and the school by us hands the lunch out at 3pm. One night it was chicken ceasar salad and my kids had that for dinner. I had toast…from my homemade bread so it was delicious.
- The free lunches are saving my life. The kids get milk two milks each day and Aydan pretty much drinks them all!
- Conference was healing.
- My bed gets made each day.
- It is nice to not wear make-up or do my hair. Everything is getting a rest.
- I have time to look at my bills and make a plan of attack!
- I am here for my children and can help them with school.
- I love that stores are closed. LOVE.
- Grateful for an essential job I can do from home
- Grateful for all the things I have learned from teaching from home
- Education, Medical, and Service Industry Employees are THE BOMB.
- My babies. I love them. My two favorite people.
- Not having the pressure of society to buy, or look a certain way, I feel like the “influencers” are so irrevelant right now. Like who cares if you have extensions in your hair or on your eyes, or your eyebrows, or your shoes, or your nails, and make up and these fake pictures of you lounging around your house trying to peddle your crap. Gross. How about using your influence to help people. That would be beautiful.
Things I have learned but don’t like about staying home.
- Taking the trash out 7,000 times a day
- Dishes. Dishes. everywhere in the sink and even upstairs! UGH teenagers and their cups and bowls.
- Cleaning like all the time
- Getting chubby from all this great food
- Teaching from home like one day a week would be ideal. Five days a week plus having to learn everything basically self taught with a tutorial in 24 hours not ideal…
- I had to get glasses my eyes hurt so much from the computer
- Tiger King
- People and their annoying rants on social media. mute. mute. mute. mute. mute. eyeroll. mute.
So I guess. I have way more things to be grateful for than the few inconveniences. Even the inconveniences have brought me sunshine and rainbows. Even not having to go to church but still having church has been such a blessing. Simple. Simple life is lovely.
