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long september. pandemic month seven.

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020by sarah

our september was verrrrry uneventful. no trips. no adventures. just regular life. well. regular-ish. you know. because we are still in coranavirus covid quarantine pandemic lockdown. school has continued to be more of a “just keep up with math and wordly wise and listen to me do one chapter of a read aloud and then […]

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august 2020. sigh.

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020by sarah

these covid days and weeks and months just keep running together. taking forever, but sort of weirdly flying by. aside from our trip to the smokies and starting homeschool, our august was pretty boring. so here’s a brief tale about the happenings. firstly. the garden. it’s been a very strange year. i only ended up […]

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monthly non-adventure post, july edition.

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020by sarah

another month of pandemic life has come and gone. things are still sort of opened, but now cases are back on the increase, so no one knows what to make of anything anymore. it’s madness. but somehow, the month still managed to fly by, maybe because we are used to it at this point. all […]

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last minute july fourth cupcakes.

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020by sarah

due to pandemics, we didn’t have any extravagant fourth of july plans. we mostly laid low. ate a bunch of junk. and at the last minute, anna and i decided that a batch of not quite red, white, and blue cupcakes were in order. we looked up a few ideas on pinterest and instagram and […]

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batavia, during quarantine.

Posted on June 27, 2020May 15, 2021by sarah

as previously mentioned, in my letchworth post, a couple of weeks ago, the lidkids and i loaded up to head to batavia, to visit my mom, and break up the monotony of the quarantine. the drive was remarkably uneventful. we stopped twice. both time with little fanfare. and there was no traffic and smooth sailing. […]

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quarantine may.

Posted on June 16, 2020June 18, 2020by sarah

even though things started opening up in may, we mostly laid low, and did a lot of the same things we have been doing for the entire quarantine. music concerts, baking, sewing, dog snuggling, yard work. you know the drill. but then also a few outings, of varying degrees of excitement. 🙂 firstly. on anna’s […]

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strawberry themed essential activities

Posted on May 15, 2020May 15, 2020by sarah

it turns out, our new house is only about four minutes from our favorite little strawberry farm, that we last visited five years ago. so, as strawberry season approached, we kept a close watch on the jones farm facebook page, plotting the perfect day to go pick our own berries. then we drove alllll the […]

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april in quarantine.

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020by sarah

at the start of april, time was seemingly standing still. the days were incredibly long. and it was hard to remember what day it actually was. we were still doing school. and arts and crafts. and dance. but the daily monotony was getting old. i busted out some clearance crafts that i picked up when […]

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lockdown easter activities.

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020by sarah

as we rolled towards easter, it was pretty apparent that it was going to be spent in quarantine. so, i did what any quarantine mom would do. i ordered $20 worth of sprinkles from michaels curbside pick up and made cookies to decorate. i found an egg shaped cookie cutter in my baking supplies that […]

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march.
(quarantine begins).

Posted on May 13, 2020May 14, 2020by sarah

towards the end of our time in florida, the concern over the coronavirus was just picking up. we definitely gave a little extra thought to the fact that we were in a city with an international airport. but mostly, we had no idea that things were about to get real crazy real fast. when we […]

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