Gardening, One of my Favorite Pastimes

Hi, Carson Here,

Dream Spring Garden!

It's Spring and the gardens are already starting to bloom! My daffodils, crocus, and hyacinth are all bursting and ready to bloom! Oh, how I love Spring. Yesterday we made a little fort in the woods. It is complete, it even has a floor of hand planted moss.
 It was nice to see raspberry vines, spring onions, and the flourishing bushes. Tomorrow's APRIL FOOL'S! I'll post some images of my mischievous pranks. Hopefully no one gets hurt,😈. See y'all l8r.

Mom's log...

Mom's log, day 18:

We are very thankful that the weather is getting nicer. We have spent 2 hours outside today and will continue to do so until we have to go in to eat. The occupants are getting restless, but playing in the woods and building forts is doing them good. It is also helpful to get out of the house so Chris does not have all sorts of loud noises in the background when making calls. Just when we think this is doable and won't be too difficult, things happen... But the days seem to be getting easier. we got a bunch of our outdoor toys out this weekend when we had the nice weather. Our garden is almost ready to be planted in. Hammocks are up, the slackline is up, the trampoline is out, and best of all, nature is still all around us and we are not isolated from it!

Our new schedule (otherwise known as spring break)

Since for spring break is at home this year. We needed to set some kind of schedule up so that I don't go crazy and can actually still work with the older boys that are still doing school. Thought this would be good to document.

17th day of quarantine

   
        17th day of quarantine😢. I finished working on our garden🌱. I cleaned up my room👕 and I played outside⚽. We did church at home🕮. I helped clean up a spill in our kitchen😃.

Day 16, First Video Post!

16th day of quarantine

          This is our 16th day of quarantine😢. Today I worked on my family's garden🥕. The weather was rainy and cloudy🌂. I watched 3 movies📺 and played on my kindle/ wii. My dad and I worked on my bike🚲. I am starting to clean my room😃.

15th day of quarantine

   

        This is our 15th day of quarantine😢. I played yahtzee, farkle, battleship, and sharades on zoom with my friends😃. We have started to do zoom for school💻.  The time has gone fast🕐🕔🕘🕟. The weather has been warm/sunny and a little rainy😃. I hope this ends soon⌛.

Day 15

Day 15,

Hello everyone, it's day 15 of our who knows how long social distancing😭. Trying to stay out of trouble 😈. Luckily it's sunny outside so we can play outdoors. My gardens are starting to pop up so I get to enjoy tending to them. We are still taking our daily medicine 💊, fish oil, elderberry syrup, and vitamin C powder are just part of it. School on Zoom©️

is uneventful other than the fact of actually having all our classes online. We are not used to it since our school is based on low screen activities (they want this(📐📚📝)not this(📵)). Since we only have school three days a week it's not to big of a change. We are having fun FaceTiming 📞 friends and doing virtual game nights. Exited to see friends again 😍 (hopefully soon)and spend some time in  the summer sun 😎 ,

Carson

Our regimen to stronger immune systems

There are so many theories out there about how to keep safe from this virus or the theory that there is no way to stay away from it or fight it....all we can do is keep our immune systems as strong as we can and rely on God to take care of the rest...oh, and of course, WASH OUR HANDS!!!

I wanted to document what we are currently doing for our records.

• Diffusers:  We have diffusers in each bedroom, one in the kitchen, one in the office and one in the living room. I fill them up each morning and evening with the defense blend I make.
•  Daily vitamins
• On guard hand soap at every sink
• On guard toothpaste
• Probiotics
• On guard softgels (adults and older 2)
• Immune booster roller on spine 1-2x/day
• 1000 mg L-vitamin C/day (powder form) will be upped if signs of sickness
• 4000 mg (I think that is the measurement) of liquid vitamin D/day thanksfully getting more with the gorgeous days we have had this week
• 2 drops of DDR prime
• 1 teaspoon of elderberry syrup
• 1T Omega-3 (2500 mg)
• Smoothies that include (Baobab powder, collagen peptides, coconut milk, greek yogurt, & oranges...plus other things as we have them)
• Eating as much fruit and veggies as we can find and afford on our limited grocery budget
• Using up all of our stock of bone broth (still trying to make more to have sense it will be quite useful if one of us gets sick)

The upside to everyone being home is that we are able to actually get into a rhythm on doing all of the above.  It seems like a part time job some days getting all of this accomplished with everyone and some days only the boys make it through all of this. 

Really no rhyme or reason as to how we have come upon all of this as our "system" through this time besides it is what we had on hand and had been doing already.

We have Gaga using a diffuser regularly, rolling the immune booster on daily, taking the elderberry and taking the high dosage of vitamin c. 

If anyone happens to see this and has any tips or knowledge, I am all ears!!

2 weeks (14 days or 336 hours)....

2 weeks down, no clue how much longer to go....

Cayden starts spring break tomorrow, otherwise known as living life inside the house without school or assignments to do and praying the weather is nice enough to be outside for hours on end and keep most of our mess outside.

If one more person messages me or "shares" another special activity that I can do with the boys in all of our free time.......I don't know, but I am still waiting for this elusive freetime I keep hearing about to show up.  The first 7 hours of my day are spent going between 3 different desk stations with different kids.  2 are on Zoom classrooms 3 days a week and the other (up until tomorrow) has to be walked through online assignments that require typing, watching videos and taking pictures of work being done.  In between my rounds, there is trying to get another load of laundry washed, prepping lunch to be ready right at 11:45 (older 2 have a specific lunch break), regular house duties that have erupted with 6 people living here full time, oh.....and a 3 year old that has decided to "part time" potty train, learn how to whine about everything, decided to try the defiant thing, wants to eat all the time and walk around with his hands down the back of his pants.

Once school is officially over for the day, comes the snack time, homework, outdoor/extra energy time, suppertime, house blessings, baths, game playing, uploading homework to teachers for the next day, printing out schoolwork and quizzes for the next day, cleaning up dinner and exploding kitchen and then some quiet hangout time with the older 2.

Between job searching, consulting, helping out our church with live streaming, Chris has been spending 10+ hours a day in the office.....he is hopeful to start working with Cooper and Cayden on soccer a couple nights each week since they are missing their soccer season and he was going to finally get to coach Cayden's team.

We are thankful that Gaga is here to give a helping hand.  We have found ways to help fill her schedule up some.  She gives Cooper a private bible lesson on Monday.  Tuesday's bible lesson is with Carson.  On Wednesday, she listens in on History class with Carson from 12:30-2. Fridays are quite full.  She folds all of our laundry in the morning and sits in on another history class from 12:30-2.  We are having her join us for movie nights on Saturdays (this helps out with the fact that Chris isn't available on Saturdays because he is busy recording, editing and uploading the sermon for Sunday morning). 

We have no clue how much longer this will last.  Looking forward to the day I can put all the electronics away again (2 desktops, 2 laptops, ipad and smart phone being relied upon daily) and get back to saying no screen time on school days....

Stay safe and STAY HOME😷😊

Day 8 of Isolation

Day 9

Hi, Carson here,

This my first post on the effects and change on our family, because of this pandemic, COVID 19. My three brothers and I have not left the house in 50+ hours! We have been washing our hands, playing board games, watching TV, washing hands, playing outside FaceTiming friends, washing hands, reading books, doing live online school with Zoom©️, and washing hands. We are bored out of our minds! Cannot wait till all this boils over.

     Carson Poore

Day 9 and counting.....

It was suggested that we have our kids journal to keep a memory of all the events currently taking place.  I spoke with the boys and we decided to "resurrect" our family blog.  Can't believe we haven't done anything on this since 2015!!!  Each boy is hoping to post something 2-3x/week.  It should be interesting!