Wednesday, February 10, 2021

A month of little things...in reverse...

January and February have been a bit of a blur.  We've kept our heads down focusing on remote learning and life at home while the nation and world continued in commotion.  Here are a few little high lights from life at home.

We had a mini Super Bowl party with some of our approved pod people.  Uncle Alan and Aunt Heather came over with their kids.  I enjoyed cheering for Tom Brady for the first time in my life.  Now that he doesn't play for New England I can be a fan.


A hundred years ago (or maybe four) Adell made this paper chain of our family members and hung it about our Family Home Evening chart.  Heads up, we never do FHE and this chart is purely ornamental.

This week (February 6th) Adell made a goal of making a new paper family chain using her animation and character skills.  She drew and painted up this darling little set of Andersons.  We all love it!


Will went out to Utah for work again and drove up to Idaho to visit Wyatt.  The went on a snowy hike, ate good food, and threw axes.  There is also apparently a story of Wyatt falling into a leafless bush and getting a stick up his nose.  I don't know all the details.  You will have to ask one of them.  


Colter and Adell are good friends.  I am so thankful for this year they have had to rely on each other as solo playmates.  They fight a lot too...as siblings do...but when they are getting along it seems like a lot of fun.  

Sometimes we spice things up with a couple of kids in our pod.  We do not have a formal pod but we do visit with the same 3-4 families and their kids.  It feels safe...and unstructured.  One of our pod friends has kids Adell and Colter's age.  They are always up for a picnic inside or out.

Colter has become a downright wiz on the rollerblades.  He is fast and confident.  He goes all around our neighborhood by himself or with a family member...mostly alone.  He loves it and I love seeing his blade skills improve.  Rollerblading is his first choice when forced to turn off YouTube and get some physical activity.




And that wraps up the quiet life in the Anderson house right now.  I cannot believe we are close to a year of COVID 19 diminished life.  I keep a little daily journal and it has been spooky to look back on my entries for these days last year.  Knowing now how life was going to change and for how long...seeing how little idea I had of it.  Remarkable.  But I guess plenty of things are that way in life.  Once you move you can look back on your life and mark times you had no idea a big move was coming.  So it goes and so we go!

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